Akparawa.net RSS Feeds Latest updates from Akparawa.net href="http://akparawa.net/" Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 10 - Contexts Context in Modx Revolution provides us with the ability to maintain separate configuration files which we can use to run a language-specific version of our website, for example, or locate our core files outside of the site's root folder for enhanced security.

In this section, we will use …

]]> Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:33:18 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-10-contexts.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-10-contexts.html Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 09 - Security Following on from Modx Revolution Development Part 08 - Membership, we will now implement restrictions on how users may access certain resources on our website. Our emphasis in this section will be on defining permi…

]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2011 02:30:27 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-09-security.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-09-security.html Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 08 - Membership Our objective in this section is to implement the files necessary for enabling user registration/membership. Most of what we do here will be driven by the Login snippet which we installed when we looked at Modx Revolution Development - Part 04 - Packages

]]> Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:43:00 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-08-membership.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-08-membership.html Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 07 - Creating Resources Earlier, in Modx Revolution Development - Part 03 - Basic Systems Settings, we dipped our toes in Modx Revolution Resources when we created some required pages for Site Settings. We have also made provis…

]]> Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:40:00 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-07-creating-resources.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-07-creating-resources.html Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 06 - Chunks, Snippets and Template Variables In this part, we will create the elements required to complete our Base Template. At this juncture, it probably is a good idea to provide a summary of what these elements actually mean.

Chunks are html codes we can place in our template or page content. This is similar to Include Files …

]]> Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:15:00 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-06-chunks,-snippets-and-template-variables.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-06-chunks,-snippets-and-template-variables.html Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 05 - Building Templates Modx Revolution comes with a basic but helpful template as reproduced below:

<html>
<head>
<title>[[++site_name]] - [[*pagetitle]]</title>
<base href="[[++site_url]]" />...
]]> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:30:00 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-05-building-templates.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-05-building-templates.html Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 04 - Required Packages Packages, or Extras, are specialist modx revolution applications that help us accomplish useful tasks without having to write the code ourselves. We are interested in the following packages:

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]]> Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:25:00 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-04-required-packages.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-04-required-packages.html Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 03 - Basic Systems Settings Before we go into system settings, we need to create a couple of resources. Resources are basically pages. It is not mandatory to create these pages but we should do so since we need to provide their ID when we set some system parameters. The immediate resources we need are:

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    ]]> Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:52:00 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-03-basic-systems-settings.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-03-basic-systems-settings.html Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 02 - Installation of Modx Revolution Having installed Wampserver in Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 01 - Installation of Wampserver, we now need to visit the download page of Modx Revolution at http://modx.com/revolution/download/ for the program we will be working with. There are two types...

    ]]>     Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:19:00 -0600 http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-02-installation-of-modx-revolution.html http://www.akparawa.net/modx-revolution-development-with-wampserver-part-02-installation-of-modx-revolution.html     Modx Revolution Development with Wampserver - Part 01 - Installation of Wampserver To get started, we need to visit Wampserver to download the program. The version at the time of this writing is 2.1e with a size of just under 20mb for the 32bits version and which includes apa…

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