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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
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

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

Using a custom form for the Post a Blog! page


To customize the form, all that we need to do is create a form in HTML, save it as a chunk, and then pass the name of this chunk as the value of formtpl to NewsEditor.

We need a mechanism by which we can let the NewsEditor snippet know which text field, from the resource, gets stored as which property. For example, we might have a title, summary, and content, and we will want the title to be saved as the resource-specific variable longtitle, the summary as the resource-specific variable description, and the content field as the content of the resource. This has to be explicitly specified, as NewsEditor has no ability to make guesses about which field gets stored as what in the resource.

When using a chunk as a form template along with NewsEditor, the specification of what field gets stored as what variable in the resource is done by setting the name attribute of the form element to the resource-specific variable. The following is the HTML for the...

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