Check if server = production else {...}

Is anybody using any code with modx to check if the server is staging vs production? I want to call a single minified js/css on production but when developing locally (on MAMP) I want to call the individual js/css files.

We've set this up on our hosting by cooking it into the vhosts: so for one domain you can set compression on (which compresses all CSS into a single optimized CSS file, same for all JS). For the dev domain's vhost, you can leave this off.

You could use a boolean context setting to differentiate between staging and production.

On your staging server set "live" to 0, on production to 1.
Include your CSS like this:

Or in a snippet in the template (again assuming there is a System Setting with the key ('live'):




Since it defaults to false, you only need the setting on the production/live install.

Thanks for the great suggestions guys, really appreciated! I went with the context setting with output modifiers and put it straight into the template (no chunk/snippet) just to keep readability of the code as good as possible. I am using this in the <head> for CSS and before the </body> for js and https://code.google.com/p/minify/ for minification, this is what the code looks like in case it helps somebody in the future: