Comments on: Interesting MODx Tools

By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Sun, 08 May 2011 21:18:00 +0000

No, this site is WordPress. I started it long before I had ever heard of MODx. Am planning on porting it over to MODx at some point, but since it is purely a blog WP is a good tool for the job.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:51:24 +0000

Thanks Greg!

By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:08:03 +0000

I have used Quill on a couple of projects, but haven't found anything it can do that Ditto can't.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:01:41 +0000

Hi Greg, It looks like from another post you have had more experience with Quill to date. Do you still feel that Ditto can accomplish this or do you feel that Quill has something else to offer?

I have looked at Quill, but until I really use it the documentation does not help to see the possibilities. To accomplish I think the same thing I used a solution like Michael's above, currently using a TV Select binding to the “alias” of the documents in container.

By: crunch

crunch — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:08:14 +0000

i second that call – bindings are an area of modx i really havn't learned to exploit yet, and I feel that they have the potential to be 'shortcuts' for a lot of the methods i use at the minute – but I've never really found the time to suss out what they are all about.
I'd love to see a good use / clever example of what you can do with bindings!

By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:39:06 +0000

I will definitely put that one on my list. Thanks!

Thanks, Greg.

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By: Jason Imani

Jason Imani — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:33:44 +0000

Hey Gregory…I would love to see a tutorial on @bindings…I've always wanted to know more about them. How to use them, some examples…

By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:06:50 +0000

It seems so. I have done the same type of thing with Ditto in a TV too. There are so many paths to solutions in MODx, that's why I stay so fired up about it.

By: Michael van Laar

Michael van Laar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:37:21 +0000

Same here, regarding Quill. I haven't tried it yet. But what I get from the description, it does the same I'm already doing with TVs. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

E.g. to show a checkbox list to chose related downloads (which are organized as single documents within a parent document with the ID "20") for an article, I just use the following code as TV input option:
@SELECT pagetitle, id FROM [+PREFIX+]site_content WHERE parent='20'

Isn't this more or less equal to the currency example on the Quill repository page?

By: Gregory Smart

Gregory Smart — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:11:07 +0000

You know, I have had some of the same observations about Quill. I do think that it is possible to achieve some of the same results with Ditto.

As far as tvEditor, I can honestly say that I have not used this myself. While I do think it is interesting, conceptually, I although I haven't used it myself on a commercial project.