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Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

BobRay — Aug 22, 2014, 02:15 PM

Agreed.

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

mina_gerges — Aug 22, 2014, 12:42 PM

@Bob, that's great, but still the y should have a updater from the manager, also a backup option, these 2 should be native functionality. I was talking with a web developer today convincing him that MODX is the best CMF, while i was demonstrating the back-end for him his first comments were about user to user security, self-upgrade and the backup options, he liked modx but was chocked how these features are missing, everyone agrees with that. I am not saying it is hard to upgrade modx, but we need to consider non geeks who just install and go.

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

BobRay — Aug 22, 2014, 12:45 AM

Do you just need the version number of the current version? If so, it should be relatively easy to get it from modx.com/download with cURL. It's in this form, and there's nothing else like it on the page, so it preg_match() would find it:


  MODX Revolution 2.3.1-pl

The pattern would be something like this:

$pattern = '#MODX Revolution ([0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{1,2}.[0-9]{1,2}\-[a-z]+[0-9]*)
#';

The download link is there also as:

Traditional

That should be gettable with this pattern unless the page changes:

$pattern = '#Traditional#';

If that would do it, let me know which you need and I'll try to create the full code.

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

mina_gerges — Aug 21, 2014, 04:55 PM

Second one is confirmed to be working by Suzan, however it has to be modified manually for every new modx release because of the lack of release meta data, i was writing something which was checking github versions, but i didn't go on. It's frustrating actually as it is not rocket science, any of the devs can just spend couple of hours to write it. As Bob said, this is essential and will attract a huge number of regular end users and bloggers to install modx. Also for developers if the upgrade feature will come with a special permission so can be passed to end users

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

rx2 — Jun 25, 2014, 09:07 PM

There are a few independent scripts for this but I haven't tried any of them personally:

http://chsmedien.com/blog/2013/05/download-und-update-script-for-modx

http://sottwell.com/articles/modx-revolution-building-the-web-your-way.html

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

BobRay — Jun 25, 2014, 06:10 PM

If MODX wants to entice current WordPress users, this is essential.

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

rdaneeel — Jun 25, 2014, 06:28 AM

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

9thwave — Oct 25, 2013, 08:28 AM

Just wondering if this is anywhere near to being integrated into future versions?

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

markh — Apr 12, 2011, 07:03 PM

I imagine the upcoming NOC dashboards somewhat integrate with that, too

This is definitely something on my wishlist as well, but more out of lazyness than a dire need...:P

Re: MODx upgrade from inside Manager

rethrash — Apr 12, 2011, 08:19 AM

It’s definitely on the roadmap. Not sure which release it will make it into though.