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Monitor your MODX Evo performance

piotr matysiak portfolio — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:26:40 +0200

This is a short piece of code that I used to always place in my MODX projects. It's very useful and helps monitor MODX performance. Thanks to special MODX tags, it simply shows how many queries were made outside cache, how much time they took, how long it took to...

Uncached Ditto call with pagination

piotr matysiak portfolio — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:43:12 +0200

How to achive cached document and uncached Ditto with pagination in MODX Evo. It's a known problem - or maybe I should say difficulty - to have Ditto with pagination inside a document which have caching turned on. "Why?" you may ask. When you have cached document with uncached Ditto call,...

Filling eForm report dynamically

piotr matysiak portfolio — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:18:16 +0200

eForm function that you will find below, was a life saver for me not so long ago. eForm is one of MODX most popular snippet. It is responsible for generating and processing forms in MODX Evo. It works like a charm with static form like those used for contact/feedback/booking. But hey,...

Setting placeholder via simple snippet

piotr matysiak portfolio — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:17:48 +0200

It's not often situation but sometimes there is a need to set up your own placeholder. For example I needed to do this when I wanted to process data given to PHx (in this situation PHx was trimming HTML tags and shortening content). PHx refused to process data retrieved from...

MODX Evo - checking user group

piotr matysiak portfolio — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:17:26 +0200

Sometimes there is a need to display part of website only for specific user group. In this case, how can we check (in frontend) if currently logged user belongs to a group called for example "Partners"? PHx modifiers and a little snippet which gives us true/false (when we give it...

MODX - current date snippet

piotr matysiak portfolio — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:09:53 +0200

Snippet displaying current date with possibility of changing format by php date(). Snippet Snippet name: currentDate Usage example [ [ currentDate ] ] = [ [ currentDate?format=`d.m.Y` ] ] = Parameters: format -...

Getting variable value from _GET

piotr matysiak portfolio — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:00:52 +0200

Simple piece of PHP which will get value from any _GET variable. Snippet Snippet name: GET Usage example [ [ GET?v=`yourGetVariable` ] ] Parameters: v - variable name existing in GET For example let's...

Check if MaxiGallery have images...

piotr matysiak portfolio — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:49:34 +0200

The snippet below checks if MaxiGallery have images and if it does, displays full image path.It is very useful when we have listing of documents where main picture comes from MaxiGallery. Snippet was made for twojewczasy.pl and it works like a charm :) Snippet Snippet name MaxiGallery_getThumb getFullTableName( 'maxigallery' );$query = $modx->db->query('SELECT...

MODX Evo - clearCache snippet

piotr matysiak portfolio — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:57:29 +0200

Have you ever wonder how to clear cache via snippet? It's just too easy ;) config['base_path']."manager/processors/cache_sync.class.processor.php";$sync = new synccache();$sync->setCachepath("assets/cache/");$sync->setReport(false);$sync->emptyCache();?>

MODX - generating meta tags

piotr matysiak portfolio — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:48:07 +0100

I found MetaX about month ago. It is a snippet that generates beautiful meta tags for your site. I was sceptic at first, because I had my own simple tool, but I gave MetaX a chance. What can I say? It was worth it! Pros automatization clean code checking for favicon (mobile too) checking for keywords...