Comments on: MODx CMS – An Ajax/PHP Content System

By: stuartdenley

stuartdenley — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:30:02 +0000

I read the above about MODx and this is help full too for open source PHP Application Framework to take control of my online content. Thanks for smart knowledge.

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By: hellomello

hellomello — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:10:38 +0000

I can attest that MODX is a good SEO cms and designers haven as well.

I have set up 13 sites in last 4 months..adding & editing templates is a breeze. You can see how clean of a CMS is it..

FlagsCalgary.com, FlagsVancouver.com FlagsOrlando.com, FlagsToronto.com, FlagsRegina.com FlagsKelowna.com FlagsEdmonton.com FlagsVictoria.com FlagsBarrie.com FlagsOntario.com FlagsWhistler.com

By: Leezig

Leezig — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:12:45 +0000

MODx is simply superb. I even build my “Brochure” sites with it because it makes my life easier when it comes to updating (I just tell my clients…shhh!)

By: bj2design

bj2design — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:16:39 +0000

I have been checking out MODx and have found it very user friendly to integrate CSS templates etc and find the forums fast to respond. Good on the development team of MODx. I look forward to its future improvements even though its pretty solid as it is for what it offers.

By: Rugpijn

Rugpijn — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:37:18 +0000

I moved to modx from a wordpress which was hacked into a cms – sort of…

There is a small learning curve, but once up it is awesom and easy to implement whichever you can imagine.

I did also try expression engine, cms simple and some more, but this one makes sense.

Kudoos for the developers.

By: REM

REM — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:06:06 +0000

Look like a real good ajax program.

By: Nikita Kapustin

Nikita Kapustin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:53:41 +0000

Just to mention, MODx has several “native” UTF-8 encoding support for Content Manager like swedish, japanes, russian. Give it a try here: http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2101&Itemid=159&show=1&start=4

By: Nikita Kapustin

Nikita Kapustin — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:46:48 +0000

Very promising CMS/F, I’m using the http://www.TYPO3.com CMS which is also recently getting some AJAX improvements, but MODx is gonna be my amazing timesaver on mid-size deployments. Highly recommened!

By: PaulQ

PaulQ — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:18:06 +0000

Enough said! Get this CMS now!

Honestly :)

I never encountered such an easy to template CMS…
+ there are a lot of addons, work on the CMS is going steadily and there is a very active community on the forums.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 20:04:52 +0000

Our site is bi-lingual and ModX has amazing user controls that allows me and other managers to edit more content than junior managers and members. Brilliant. As a PHP developer myself – I am using this product for several other sites too!

By: kav

kav — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 06:33:45 +0000

The only other CMS with easy templating, seo friendly and custom fields is Expression Engine for $250 for a commercial website plus $40 a year for updates. These are the main two CMS I have found that truly separate content/code from design/layout and are css/xhtml centric.

http://www.pmachine.com.

By: DRgab

DRgab — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:16:42 +0000

I’m looking for a cms for my sites.

It seems that ModX is the best one, I can only read enthusiastic comments about it, and when compared to other cms.

Should I use it, or there is something better on commercial Cms? (the price it’s not a problem)

By: Bill Fernandez

Bill Fernandez — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:15:32 +0000

A client hired me to design & build a corporate website. I thought it would be beneficial to base it on an open source CMS. I installed and tried Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, Simple CMS, WebMyPHP (?), and a few others. The further I got into each, the more painful it became. Then I found (and used) MODx. It was empowering. It let me do what I wanted, the way I wanted. There was quite a learning curve, but each piece of learning led directly to accomplishing something I wanted. I (and the client) am very happy with the result, and the client’s marketing specialist is able to keep it updated all by herself.

By: Jay Gilmore

Jay Gilmore — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 13:02:43 +0000

I came across MODx in September of 2006 and after comparing it to various systems that were geared to the end user, I fpund that this framework allows me nearly unlimited flexibility. If you find something you don’t think MODx can do there is usually a way to make it work using PHP snippets or the Template Variable system.

The roadmap to 1.0 shows plans to eliminate every line of Etomite code and to see some rationalization, and streamlining of the administration, users and more. But even in the pre 1.0 versions has changed my method of development entirely.

MODx now allows me the ability to offer an easy to use CMS for even my smallest clients due to the way the templating is done. Where previously I would have to spend hours trying to make a square peg fit into a round hole–or hack things until I could make the round hole square–now, I can install MODx, insert the html code, appropriate tags and, done. I can’t see myself working any other way from now on.

But be warned: this is not for the snap-together, end-user targetted app, set to configure out of the box. As MODx team members say it is a developers CMS/Framework and should be set up by someone who is at least skilled in XHTML/CSS and has an understanding of PHP/MySQL. Once configured though it will be end user bliss.

No more data entry work, copy and pasting text into static pages for clients who previously couldn’t afford a CMS.

All the best,

Jay

By: mediapixel

mediapixel — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:50:00 +0000

I am also using this cms , see it in action here : http://www.mediapixel.co.uk

By: K'echa

K'echa — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:03:30 +0000

I like it, very fast deployment. But as someone said before there are some issues using firefox, wuld be great if developers fix that.

By: bj

bj — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:02:39 +0000

My clients LOVE this CMS since it takes even the most computerphobic ones about five minutes to create/edit their first page.

I LOVE this CMS since whatever I dream in css I can make happen with ModX. SIMPLE templating system.

Joomla has been talking about making their CMS accessible for oh, since it was still Mambo, I think. With ModX you can build completely standards compliant and accessible sites now, and that’s been the case for awhile. And you don’t have to swallow a jargon dictionary to use it like you do with drupal or xaraya. What an amazing thing, a CMS that does not forcefeed you any html! Also, every snippet I’ve used that does have html within its structure is easy to edit, AND if used out of the box, already have the style hooks there for you to utilize. How EASY! Unlike those forcefed tables in Joomla.

It took me awhile to get my head around setting up a site with ModX (I’m strictly front end dev, and not phpsmart!) but once I realized the power of Template Variables, it made me realize that this fabulous tool will allow me to do almost anything I can envision. I can’t wait for Susan to finish the ShopX add on!

By: Tony Haddon

Tony Haddon — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:35:40 +0000

I was gonna leave a comment about how great it is, but it’s all been said I think (However here I am) I recently checked out drupal after hearing about how powerful it was on the ‘Inside the Net’ Podcast. It may be very powerful but I was IMMEDIATELY deterred by the inaccessible templating process. There’s no going back.

By: John van Breda

John van Breda — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:28:00 +0000

I have used various .Net tools at work including Content Management Server, SharePoint and DotNetNuke. But when my wife decided to set up a charitable website (http://www.specialfamilies.org) I knew I needed to look for something far simpler, cheaper (to buy & to run) and more flexible than the tools I was used to. I trawled through trying as many CMS tools on http://www.opensourcecms.com as I could and found ModX, simply because I could immediately understand the basics and could see that it would not get in the way of the design. A few weeks later and the site is up and running, despite me being new to PHP and MySQL, and I’m still really glad I chose ModX. The only problems I’ve had is battling with CSS & the usual cross-browser compatibility stuff (which I am no expert on!) – ModX has not got in the way at all.
A few summary points to help anyone thinking of ModX:
1) ModX is not the sort of CMS where you will get everything you want without doing CSS and PHP. But its actually really easy. For example, dotNetNuke will allow a non-techie to drop new modules into pages in a simpler fashion.
2) As mentioned above, the list of available modules is not as extensive as some other tools. But its growing really quickly, and I’ve managed to write a few of my own quite easily.
3) Compared to all the other tools I have seen, the templating system is brilliant. Just take an XHTML/CSS web template, cut out the dynamic bits and replace them with tags such as [*content*] and you’re done. In fact its so easy and flexible you can even generate other content types, such as CSS.

By: Wendy Novianto

Wendy Novianto — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:05:14 +0000

Let me add another bias comment on MODx, considering I used to be one of those active members in MODx community.

From my opinion, MODx has quite an innovative CMS idea. The idea is to have the core as simple and flexible as possible. The only drawbacks that MODx still facing is the core code that still needs a lot of cleaning and reworked, considering it used to be a forked from Etomite, which later MODx evolved into a much better and advanced CMS. I’m considering this CMS as a CMS/F (Content Management System/Framework), because of it’s flexibility which making the software doesn’t work out of the box like some other CMS, but it gives a greater freedom for people like us (designer/developer/advanced user) in customizing the CMS/F.

In conclusion, it’s a well-built CMS/F. Keep looking forward for a better core code and third party contributions to the system.