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MODx Web Development - Second Edition

You're reading from MODx Web Development - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2011

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849513487

Pages 288 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Front End Web Development

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

1. www.PacktPub.com

2. Preface

1. What is MODx?

2. Getting Started

3. MODx Basics

4. Templating

5. Authentication and Authorization

6. Content Aggregation

7. Creating Lists

8. Snippets

9. PHx

10. Simple Recipes

11. Creating Snippets

12. SEO, Deployment, and Security

13. Plugins and Modules

14. MODx Revolution

Fortunes

Now that you have learned how to create snippets, let us create a snippet that displays a random fortune from the database. Fortunes are just quotations from famous texts. These are like a "quote of the day". They are called fortunes in the UNIX culture, after the introduction of the command-line program called fortune, many decades ago.

Creating the table

We will create a table that will hold the fortune and the author's name, using phpMyAdmin, to keep it simple. Most snippets that use a custom table will automatically create the table, if it doesn't exist already.

1. Open phpMyAdmin. The URL for phpMyAdmin will be different depending on your method of installation. If you choose to install Apache and PHP individually, then you will have to install phpMyAdmin first. If you are using XAMPP, as explained in Chapter 2, Getting Started, then the URL is http://localhost/phpmyadmin.
2. Log in using the username mySQL and the password that you created initially.
3. Click on the learningMODx...

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