Best way to organise system messages text

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erix_liechtenstein Reply #1, 11 years ago

Hello everyone

This is my first post and I am very new to Modx, so apologies in advance if my question is a bit silly

My question is - what is the best way to organise text messages on a site? I.e. I have a lot of system messages - i.e. error / popup text

Currently I have text embedded in html chunks which I include in Resources

What I am looking for is a single file where I can define each text item as a variable - and then link these into my chunks / resources

What is the best way of doing that?

Thank you in advance and apologies for noobness of the question

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BobRay Reply #2, 11 years ago

I don't think it's silly. We were all new to MODX at some point.

I'm not completely clear on what you want, but Template Variables (TVs) might be what you want. They hold resource-specific values and they can have default and/or inherited values.

Another possibility is language strings. They sound more like what you want. They can be in a lexicon file with keys and values. They can also be in the database if you add them in Lexicon Management. They can be displayed with language tags, or in code with $modx->lexicon('key');

If they're stored in one or more lexicon files, you have to add a snippet at the top of your pages to load them with $modx->lexicon->load().

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erix_liechtenstein Reply #3, 10 years, 11 months ago

Quote from: BobRay at Sep 19, 2015, 12:20 PM

I don't think it's silly. We were all new to MODX at some point.

I'm not completely clear on what you want, but Template Variables (TVs) might be what you want. They hold resource-specific values and they can have default and/or inherited values.

Another possibility is language strings. They sound more like what you want. They can be in a lexicon file with keys and values. They can also be in the database if you add them in Lexicon Management. They can be displayed with language tags, or in code with $modx->lexicon('key');

If they're stored in one or more lexicon files, you have to add a snippet at the top of your pages to load them with $modx->lexicon->load().

thank you!! I think lexicon files are exactly what I need

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BobRay Reply #4, 10 years, 11 months ago

I'm glad I could help. Thanks for reporting back.

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