☆ A M B ☆
☆ A M B ☆
Believe me, I've touted MODx for a long time, since early EVO days, and I still think it's the best CMS period - with or without a great repository of plugins. I can do just about anything I need with the addons that are available, it's just a matter of time, budget and reinventing the wheel. But over the years, I would have expected more interest in developing high quality 3rd party addons, and it just hasn't materialized. I think it's because developing an extra for MODx is such a daunting task, that adoption has sort of mortified. That and some of the fundamental flaws of the MODx manager, which have been acknowledged but haven't been addressed, seem to have scared off a lot of talent that I otherwise think would love to contribute in a big way. Anyway, it feels a little like the future of MODx is up in the air right now, and that's what makes me nervous. I hope I'm wrong on that account...Very well put, this should be a seperate thread. But i'm afraid it would die off along side 'Community concerns' (http://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=90793&page=17). You touch on a big fear of mine. I'm really afraid that MODX is in fact allready dead (or braindead at least) because of a big part of the community has abandoned modx. A lot of abandoned extra's, forum post don't get reactions as much an as quickly as before. (I am however extremely thankful for those that do respond to threads). Issues stunting MODX growth keep laying around.
Believe me, I've touted MODx for a long time, since early EVO days, and I still think it's the best CMS period - with or without a great repository of plugins. I can do just about anything I need with the addons that are available, it's just a matter of time, budget and reinventing the wheel. But over the years, I would have expected more interest in developing high quality 3rd party addons, and it just hasn't materialized. I think it's because developing an extra for MODx is such a daunting task, that adoption has sort of mortified. That and some of the fundamental flaws of the MODx manager, which have been acknowledged but haven't been addressed, seem to have scared off a lot of talent that I otherwise think would love to contribute in a big way. Anyway, it feels a little like the future of MODx is up in the air right now, and that's what makes me nervous. I hope I'm wrong on that account...Very well put, this should be a seperate thread. But i'm afraid it would die off along side 'Community concerns' (http://forums.modx.com/thread/?thread=90793&page=17). You touch on a big fear of mine. I'm really afraid that MODX is in fact allready dead (or braindead at least) because of a big part of the community has abandoned modx. A lot of abandoned extra's, forum post don't get reactions as much an as quickly as before. (I am however extremely thankful for those that do respond to threads). Issues stunting MODX growth keep laying around.
for example a sucky packagemanager (https://github.com/modxcms/revolution/issues/7341), forums are still a mess in spite of proposed ideas(http://forums.modx.com/thread/92046/this-forum-is-a-mess), forum search is horrible and I don't see any vision or guidance from the MODx core.
I don't mention these because i demand that Modx leadership will fix it. I mention these examples because it baffles me that MMODx leadership does not realize that some problems have a high priority to save the community from dissapating to CMS alternatives.
I think its vital in this respect that the MODx LLC or core team show an acknowledgement of the problems, show a vision in how to deal with this and show in deeds how this problems will be dealt with. I'd be glad to help out where i can.
Don't get me wrong i am extremely grateful for everything MODx has brought me and but i don't think its wise to advise my clients to go with modx anymore because there aren't enough reliable extra's/add-ons to use for any future feature requests. I'm just not a very good MODext/PHP guy to make those addons myself, few are.
RDG
Quote from: AMDbuilder at Oct 26, 2014, 02:00 AMNo, You would need to use an older version of 2.2.x for proper functionality. I can't in good faith recommend using mxCalendar any longer, despite being unfinished migxCalendar is likely your best option.
Thanks, I gave up on both mxCalendar and also migxCalendar in favour of using Twitter Bootstrap calendar along with getResources to create the JSON feed it needs to work - works really well and keeps the events for the calendar in the resources document tree nice and neat and tidy - probably the best solution all round!