Anyone use MODx CMS?

[paradiselost]

Just curious if anyone on Dathorn uses MODx for a CMS (modxcms.com). I'd pretty much given up on the search for a CMS when a friend of mine put me on to MODx. This is the only CMS that I've ever used that has actually helped to speed up the development of sites, and is easy enough to train clients how to use in about 2 hours. Just curious, and if you haven't tried it, you should give it a whirl. I know picking a CMS is sort of a personal thing, and that you have to find one that fits your frame of mind. For me, it's MODx.

James

[Denny]

I've been using it lately for all projects that only need a general, well-rounded CMS. I stumbled upon it in sort of the frame of mind you did - after months to years of desperately hacking other CMSs to get them to do what I wanted, I finally found MODx and realized what a blessing it was. I haven't looked back since. It is very flexible but also quite easy to use. The only issue I have is with chunks and snippets - I understand them now, and they do make the system very powerful, but to a beginner they make customizing an otherwise spectacular CMS seem rather confusing. I'd much prefer to see some type of plugin architecture like Wordpress - drag, drop and upload.

So far, I've used it on:

http://illinoisaeyc.org

http://aeycsites.com

http://retrointeractive.com

Got one more in the works as we speak....

[jobe]

On the basis of the above posts I decided to give Modx a go but I'm having a difficult time installing it.

I've uploaded & unzipped & deleted /public_html/ & then renamed the modx folder to /public_html/ & changed the permissions on the 3 folders in the assets folder but I keep coming back to a 500 error when I go to the install in the browser.
Any ideas would be appreciated - a different procedure to the above perhaps?

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Well, finally got to the installation page - the install/index.php permissions needed changing & now I'm stuck after a successful install & unable to open the site as I'm told that:

'Checking table prefix `mo`: Failed! - Table prefix is already in use in this database!

Setup couldn't install into the selected database, as it already contains tables with the prefix you specified. Please choose a new table_prefix, and run Setup again. '

This I have done with the same results, several times with new dbs & users etc.. - a very tricky setup all round!

[ZYV]

Could you please guys make some comments on its general performance and how well does it work on Dathorn?

I have stubmled across MODx a while ago, but the system seemed to be quite complicated to me and also it turned out to the a fork of Etomite (if I'm not confusing the facts) which had a bad reputation at that time.

As for now, I am using CMS Made Simple. It's nice, but first off, it's getting more and more overwhelmed & slow. And than it still lacks a good multilingual support (I mean multilingual websites, not international single-language ones) which is the key feature for me. What about MODx?

[Buddha]

As for now, I am using CMS Made Simple. It's nice, but first off, it's getting more and more overwhelmed & slow. And than it still lacks a good multilingual support (I mean multilingual websites, not international single-language ones) which is the key feature for me. What about MODx?

That sounds pretty typical. Your solution probably isn't another CMS but a dedicated server.

[ZYV]

No, that's not the case. I am not talking about any specific site hosted here on Dathorn, but it's just a general though about this CMS - with every new version it gets fatter and fatter & slower and slower. It's all about code.

Now I'd like to hear something about MODx.

[Buddha]

With a default install, MODx uses between 14 to 20 include files and between 16 to 70 MySQL database queries per request. The blog seems to be the worse part of MODx needing the most includes and generating the most database queries (49 to 70). Those numbers are from database generating content. Caching does help a lot. Reducing the number of includes to between 9 and 11 and queries to 0. Blog still sucks, with about 15 includes and 30 queries.

Without the cache that seems extremely heavy to me, with the cache it's much better, almost acceptable without the blog. However, the cache is tricky and I had to play around a little to get it to work. Definitely, need to be careful of the plugins as that was what was giving me trouble.

Had no problems installing it. I'd like to try the export to HTML feature if I can find time.

[cathode]

I've used many many CMS's and I have found ModX to be one of the better ones, only topped by it's parent, Etomite. Etomite is a developer's dream, as it does what you want - it's simple to have a validating website that looks exactly like you want it to. The support is also hart to beat.

It is worth noting that these two CMS's are NOT portals, so don't expect portal-type features. If you want forums, buy vBulletin. If you want a blog, use Wordpress. If you want an awesome web development platform, use Etomite.