MODx tutorials and more

This tutorial shows how to create a basic registration form that, when submitted, sends a notification email and saves the values into a custom table.

Modify the createdon date field in the database so you can fake that a document was created in the past.

11 examples of how to get the parent id of the current document. Not all of them are practical but it's a good learning resource.

Secure the modx manager and the important information that might be stored in a custom module.

Windows environments won't allow you to set the read-only flag for a file with a ftp browser. This article presents a simple workaround based on chmod.

It's not often that a client will update the copyright information on his website, but just to make sure he can here's a simple way to do it.

Wayfinder can be use to create a quick site map for your website.

Short article about the orderBy parameter.

A short experiment on how you can create a RSS icon with only HTML and CSS3. With some javascript help the experiment works in IE.

TinyMce it's a nice tool to edit your website but it doesn't clean empty tags. Javascript can be used to highlight them.

By default eFrom will not replace the chunks and snippets found in the template. The solution takes advantage of eForm events and modx APIs so no eForm hack is needed.

Set up TinyMCE content editor to show table controls

Simple trick to get rid of the label for a single value check-box.

When moving or updating websites from a staging version on a different server you will need to know the "File Manager" path. Here's a simple way to find it.

The following tutorial will show how to create new resources(documents) with help from eForm

Upgrading to MODx Evolution is slightly different and simpler than upgrading to a RC.

Change your captcha noise images to match your website theme or colors.

Upgrade to the latest modx via the command line.

Although you can keep your files and template images any place you desire here's how I like it.

A plugin to get notifications when a Web User or Manager User logs into modx.

If you ever wanted to send an email notification when a document is saved here is how I do it.

Here's a simple way to add a nice and simple FAQ section to your website.

If you ever wanted to have a look at what Modx Revolution brings in to the world, here's an easy way to install it yourself.

When using Ditto with custom templates that call other snippets you might loose the caching functionality. One way to fix it is to use runSnippet API. Another one is to use @FILE property.

This tutorial will take advantage of eForm's ability to run snippets. Although it's a limited functionality, this article will show you how to take advantage of it and use it to keep your html in external files.

Here's an easy way to properly tag your documents. You will need access to phpMyAdmin or a similar tool.

Often you might want to easily display a nice separator between 2 paragraphs or 2 sections of your website. Here's how I do it.

Most of you know that in order to use a snippet inside another snippet you have to alternate the snippet calls like [!, [[. Now your snippet call will not be cached anymore. Here's how to overcome this limitation.

Sometimes your page titles might contain special characters like "&". W3C's markup validation service will throw an error if you do not replace & with &

Sometimes you might need to switch off parts of your website because there is no content to display.

There are some cases when you need to output the image height and width in your HTML. The best solution I found is using a PHx custom modifier.