Archive of sottwell.com Evo info site now available

Susan Ottwell kindly made the content of her old sottwell.com site, which is packed with useful information for Evo developers, available as a zip file. I have now installed this as the "sottwell archive" on the Pogwatch site: http://sottwell.pogwatch.com/.

I have removed the Contact feature, deactivated fresh comment input on the "MODX from the Inside" pages, and for now at least have not made the guest manager login available.

Read and enjoy, and thanks again to Susan!
:) KP

Thank you kp52 for this, it's great to see such a great resource restored. I only noticed it missing last week when I needed some help. It did leave me wondering whether it was time to give up on Evo and move over to Wordpress or another light CMS.

Yay, thanks!

I was really sorry to drop Evo altogether, but with my eyes giving me trouble I just don't have the computer time to work with both versions. I had to make a very difficult decision. So I wish the Evo/Clipper community the very best, and hope that my poor efforts over the years will continue to be useful.

"Slowly" I'm copying the documentation to the clippercms site.
Thanks Sottwell for the work done in the past.

Would be great if some coders stood up and continue to build some nice snippets/plugins and improve the cms.

It did leave me wondering whether it was time to give up on Evo and move over to Wordpress or another light CMS.

After having embraced modx's open architecture, it's gonna be very hard to walk the road back, almost impossible! Besides that, WP is a pimped blogcms that can easily be injected.

Would be great if some coders stood up and continue to build some nice snippets/plugins and improve the cms.

It's not quite clear to me. At this moment, is clippercms the same as evo 1.0.7 I totally agree on continuing coding but not only for clippercms but also for Evo. Or will plugins work for both of them ? Therefore info and examples about how to write your own snippet/plugin for Evo needs to be better accessible. I searched but it seems there isn't much documented about that. I found this on mary's coding pad http://codingpad.maryspad.com/2010/01/13/modx-custom-snippets-php/ Does anyone know more links to how to write your own plugin for Evo ? And what about $modx-> ? I know that you can do powerfull stuff with this but where is the use of $modx-> documented ? My first plugin for modx is going to be a page hitcounter based on unique ip hits. [ed. note: sitecms last edited this post 13 years, 8 months ago.]

Well, considering the topic, how about http://sottwell.pogwatch.com/how-plugins-work.html

The Evo API is fully documented here http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Category:API

There's also a sample plugin here http://rtfm.modx.com/display/Evo1/Plugins

You might want to take a look at this; it would be easy enough to adapt it to use IP addresses. http://modx.com/extras/package/pagehitcounter

Oops, sorry Susan, I don't know how I've missed those locations completely while being so close. Thanks for the links.

Quote from: sitecms at Jan 07, 2013, 05:26 PM

It's not quite clear to me. At this moment, is clippercms the same as evo 1.0.7

Not exactly. The evo project is continueing as Clippercms. Modx is only bringing security updates for evo. Clippercms is also adding other core improvements. For new websites, if you ask me, the best is to use Clippercms. I'm not a coder and don't know if plugins might work on both, but I think it would.