Articles blog system: creating blog posts via frontend or app

Hi community,

we have a blog system with the Articles AddOn up and running since a while. now our customer is requesting for a simple method to creating blog posts.

he wants to use a mobile browser with android or ios. the modx manager is quite difficult to handle at a mobile phone. though, it is possible. so the customer requests for something like an app or a simple webresource in a special context were it is able to add a blog post easily.

well, he don't want blog post listing and editing. he just thinks about something like a password protected contact form which is creating a resource in Articles and which is publishing it.

i know that Articles is just a summary of some AddOn's. every post is just a resource. so it should be possible to create such a resource via frontend.

but, will the resource be shown in Articles? is it editable in Articles via a normal desktop browser?

any ideas how to achieve that?

thank you and regards,
from germany

p.s. is there maybe something like a modx api so that i could make an android or ios app for that?

Try looking in to NewsPublisher and the Login extras they will help you accomplish what you want.

Good Luck,

thank u for ur suggestions. that looks very encouraging.

i need to test this.

regards