Really liking ModX so far. Got the ditto thing running, no worries... But is there any chance of getting a bit of a pointer towards images uploading and getting the file name into the database? Is there a way to do it front end (perhaps using FDM)?
The first step is setting up a T.V. with an input type of "Image".
Once you’ve set up that up, when the client logs into the manager area and wants to insert an image for that template that has the T.V. you just set up, they’ll go through the following steps (this are steps I just e-mailed a client to be able to do the same thing):
1. Open Fire Fox as your browser (MODx doesn’t work so well with Internet Explorer b/c Internet Explorer sucks)
2. Login into your manager area
3. Right click your parent document for the children ditto call and choose "Create Document Here" from the pop up box
4. A new document will be presented.
5. Fill in the "Title", "Longtitle" and Content area.
6. Now scroll down to the Template Variable area and you should see the T.V. you created with an insert button to the right.
7. Click the Insert Button
8. From the pop up box, FCK Editor in this case, you will insert your image.
9. Now you are in the Image folder, click the "Browse" button at the bottom, navigate to where the file is on your computer, click it and then click the "Upload" button that is to the right of the "Browse" button you clicked earlier.
10. Allow the file to upload
11. Once it has uploaded, you should see the image in the folder.
12. Click on the image and the pop up box will disappear
13. The image has now been added
14. Scroll back to the top of the document, click on the "Page Settings" tab and click "Published"
15. Now save your document and the photo along with the content for the photo will be on the website.
As far as uploading the image from the front end, there may be a way to do so, but I’ve never done it. I just set up the manager area for my clients and restrict what they can do once they’re in the manager area.
Hope that helps.
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