User profiles

MODx allows us to implement user profiles by using the WebLoginPE snippet. In this section, we will be using the WebLoginPE snippet to list the users, view their profile, and edit one's own profile.

Installing WebLoginPE

WebLoginPE has a nice support site. You may want to look at http://sottwell.com/assets/snippets/webloginpe/docs/index.html.

1. 1. Download the snippet from the MODx repository at http://modxcms.com/extras/package/?package=495.

2. 2. Extract the snippet.

3. 3. Create a folder named webloginpe in the assets/snippets folder, in the root directory of the MODx installation.

4. 4. Copy all of the files from the extracted folder to the folder assets/snippets/webloginpe.

5. 5. Create a new snippet by using the MODx Manager, with the name WebLoginPE, and using the code from webloginpe.snippet.php file in the extracted folder as the snippet code.

Edit profile

Now that we have WebLoginPE installed, let us use it.

[!WebLoginPE? &type=`profile`!]

A call to the snippet with the parameters and...