Having worked through the Developing an Extra in MODX Revolution tutorials twice and having a look at Bob Ray's MyComponents, what next?
MODX is a free open source content management system. I use MODX because I think it is the best CMS for building websites. It gives you creative freedom but also allows you to build powerful secure web applications.
These articles are to help and remind me how to do certain things, and I hope other MODX users will also find them useful too.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Aug 29, 2013 | | Comments (2)
Having worked through the Developing an Extra in MODX Revolution tutorials twice and having a look at Bob Ray's MyComponents, what next?
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Aug 27, 2013 | | Comments (3)
If you want some customized behaviour on your MODX website a good way to achieve this is by developing an extra. That way if you want to use the same functionality again it's as simple as installing a package.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Aug 13, 2013 | | Comments (1)
This article describes in detail how to use the authentication library written by Abraham Williams to sign into a MODX website and create a MODX user based on the Twitter user screen name, and place that user in an appropriate group.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Aug 04, 2013 | | Comments (0)
Having to repeatedly create accounts to use the features of a website or web application can become a real chore, why not allow login using accounts you have already signed up to. Here we look at how you can do this with Twitter using a PHP library.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jul 23, 2013 | | Comments (6)
If you don't use quip on a regular basis then it can be easy to forget all the things you need to do to set it up. This is a quick reminder of what you need to do to get commenting on your website up and running.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Feb 25, 2013 | | Comments (0)
The Foundation css framework is maintained using Sass. So what is Sass and how does it work?
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Feb 21, 2013 | | Comments (4)
As it is Foundation's accordion is quite abrupt so I adapted it to use jQuery's slideUp/slideDown method.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Feb 17, 2013 | | Comments (3)
I wanted to find out about Flexibility for MODX and what it is made from and how to use those components.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Feb 14, 2013 | | Comments (0)
Sometimes you want to share code in your blog articles but you can't just cut and paste it because it won't look right, so how do you do it?
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jan 23, 2013 | | Comments (2)
Having a look at the slider facility in Menno Pieterse’s Flexibility package for MODX