Answered Custom Manager Pages in 2.3

Hi,

I just installed MODX 2.3 and I think it is a very good upgrade.

But then it seemed that a lot of what I had learned about developing extras wasn't working anymore. I found this page (http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/developing-in-modx/advanced-development/custom-manager-pages/custom-manager-pages-in-2.3) and it helped me understand some of the changes in regards to loading the extra from a theme folder. But beyond that, I am lost.

So my question is: Are there any good examples on GitHub for example, showing how to make an extra with Custom Manager Pages and all the other goodness?

As far as I can tell, the only major change is in how the menus work. You simply add a new menu item, with the name of your connector such as 'index' for an index.class.php file. MODX will automatically generate the path from your namespace, such as core/components/mycmp/index.class.php

Hmmm...

Ok. Good to know it works like before

Now, my problem is that when I've got my namespace (mycmp) and my action (index), in the Menus manager, it only wants to load components/mycmp/controllers/default/index.class.php! This is where the tutorial in my first post leads to. I can't seem to get it to load components/mycmp/index.class.php.

I see that the Doodles extra, for example, only has an ID in the Menu action field, relating to a row in the modx_actions table. Do I have to create an action there?

http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/developing-in-modx/advanced-development/custom-manager-pages/custom-manager-pages-in-2.3

Quote from: sottwell at Aug 25, 2014, 01:20 PM

http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/developing-in-modx/advanced-development/custom-manager-pages/custom-manager-pages-in-2.3

Yes, this is the tutorial I was speaking of! Now, using this method, it seems to remove the need for the modx_actions table – and the url is friendlier. But, since the tutorial stops before it really tackles CMP's, with all the MODexts and processors, I was wondering if anyone knows how I should continue? Is there a part 2 on its way or does somebody have a working example?

The rest of the other tutorials is the same. It's only the Actions and Menu that has changed.

Quote from: BobRay at Aug 25, 2014, 11:05 PM

See if this helps: http://bobsguides.com/blog.html/2014/03/28/modx-2.2-cmps-an-anatomy-lesson/

I was able to use the initialize()-function from the index.class.php file in the example, in my /controllers/default/home.class.php file. Now the class for my extra is loaded into the controller and from there I believe it will be quite straight forward, like before

Thanks!

Quote from: havardvidme at Aug 26, 2014, 06:29 AM

I was able to use the initialize()-function from the index.class.php file in the example, in my /controllers/default/home.class.php file. Now the class for my extra is loaded into the controller and from there I believe it will be quite straight forward, like before

@havardvidme do you have anything you can share as i'm trying to get the doodles example working within 2.3 but no luck.

I will of course try to share what I found out, @bennyb – sorry I haven't gotten around to it before

My problem, when trying to make an extra in 2.3 was the fact that I was unable to load the modExtraManagerController properly. Prior to 2.3 I would just make a "general" controller in the root folder of the extra (core/components/test/index.class.php). Then, in the controllers folder, you would add your "page specific" controller files (i.e home.class.php). The latter seemed to automatically include the former.

I could not make this work in 2.3, and in the end I ended up skipping the index.class.php altogether. Instead I made a default folder inside the controllers folder, and I then put the "page specific" controller files there (i.e home.class.php). In each of these files I extended the class like this: class TestHomeManagerController extends modExtraManagerController and class TestEditManagerController extends modExtraManagerController.

There may be a simple way of making a general class file that can be included in the specific class files, but I haven't gotten that far yet

Hope this was helpful! Good luck