Copyright, 2009, by Brandon Booth. All rights reserved.

Permission is granted to make copies of this spreadsheet for priva

Please visit my website at: www.lucidgreen.net
This document applies to Modx 0.9.6. More documentation can be
PLEASE NOTE:
found at the following links:
Official Docs: http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/MODx096/Home
Wiki: http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/Main_Page

Site Settings Tags

These may be used in templates, documents, snippets, chunks and in snippet calls (e.g. [[Wayfinder?
&startID=`[(site_start)]`]]
[(site_start)] Document ID of the site's starting page
[(site_url)] the url to the site: http://www.mysite.com/modx
[(base_url)] sites relative base url i.e. /modx/

Template Variables
Template Variables (aka TVs) can be used in templates, and directly in documents. They can also be
called within snippets and chunks
Built in "Document Specific
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[*pagetitle*] Page title from manager

[*longtitle*] Long title from manager

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[*introtext*] Intro text from manager

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[*pub_date
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[*menuindex - The order in which the document is to be listed in the menu.
[*searchable - [0|1] Whether or not the document is to be searchable.
[*cacheable - [0|1] Whether or not the document is to be cached.
[*createdby - The user ID of the creator of the document.
[*createdon - The date the document was created. See pub_date.
[*editedby - The ID of the user who last edited the document.
[*editedon - The date the document was last edited. See pub_date.
- [0|1] Whether or not the document has been deleted (but not yet
[*deleted
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# deletedby - The ID of the user who deleted the document.
# menutitle - The title to be shown in the menu. If empty, the pagetitle is used.
# donthit - [0|1] Disable page hit count for the document.
# haskeywords - [0|1] Whether or not the document has links to keywords.
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Snippets
[[snippetname]] Cached format (output only updated when page is re-cached)
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MaxiGallery Snippet
http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/MaxiGallery
[[MaxiGallery?
[[MaxiGallery? &pics_per_row=`3`
&display=`embedded`
Useful Sample calls:&max_pic_size=`400`
&max_thumb_size=`110`
&embedtype=`slimbox` &pics_per_row=`3`
&keep_bigimg=`1` &big_img_linkstyle=`popup`
&max_thumb_size=`110` &max_pic_size=`0`
&thumb_use_watermark=`1`
[!MaxiGallery? &gal_query_ids=`67,23,4`
&thumb_use_dropshadow=`1`]]
&thumb_watermark_txt=`Some
&display=`embedded` watermark!`
&embedtype=`slimbox`
[!MaxiGallery? &pic_query_ids=`32,42,52,61`
&pic_use_watermark=`1`
&order_by=`date` &limit=`5`!]
&display=`embedded` &embedtype=`smoothgallery`!]
&pic_watermark_type=`image`]]
Parameter Lists
Parameter
&admin_webgroups
&admin_webusers
&bigimg_linkstyle
&big_mask_bgcolor
&big_mask_img
&big_mask_position
&big_shadow_bgcolor
&big_shadow_path

&big_use_dropshadow

&big_use_imagemask
&big_use_watermark
&big_watermark_font
&big_watermark_halign

&big_watermark_img

&big_watermark_txt
&big_watermark_txt_color
&big_watermark_txt_hmargin
&big_watermark_txt_vmargin
&big_watermark_type
&big_watermark_valign
&childgalleries_ids
&childgalleries_level_limit
&childgalleries_limit
&childgalleries_order_by
&childgalleries_order_direction
&childgalleryTpl
&clearerTpl
&css
&debug
&disable_js_libs
&disable_rightclick
&display
&draggableTpl
&embedtype
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&ftp_pass
&ftp_port
&ftp_server
&ftp_user
&gal_query_ids
&galleryOuterTpl
&galleryPictureTpl
&gtable
&is_target
&js
&keep_bigimg
&keep_date
&lang
&limit
&manage_gallery
&manage_target
&manageOuterTpl
&managePictureTpl
&manager_webgroups
&manager_webusers
&manageButtonTpl
&manageUploadTpl
&max_big_size
&max_pic_number
&max_pic_size
&max_thumb_size
&offset
&order_by
&order_direction
&pageNumberTpl
&pic_mask_bgcolor
&pic_mask_img
&pic_mask_position
&pic_query_ids
&pic_shadow_bgcolor
&pic_shadow_path
&pic_use_dropshadow
&pic_use_imagemask
&pic_use_watermark
&pic_watermark_font
&pic_watermark_halign
&pic_watermark_img
&pic_watermark_txt
&pic_watermark_txt_color
&pic_watermark_txt_hmargin
&pic_watermark_txt_vmargin
&pic_watermark_type
&pic_watermark_valign
&pics_per_page
&pics_per_row
&picture_target
&pictureTpl
&pictureview_start_id
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&quality_big
&quality_pic
&quality_thumb
&query_level_limit
&random_filenames
&smoothgallery_carouselMaximizedOpacity
&smoothgallery_carouselMinimizedHeight
&smoothgallery_carouselMinimizedOpacity
&smoothgallery_delay
&smoothgallery_embedLinks
&smoothgallery_fadeDuration
&smoothgallery_height
&smoothgallery_id
&smoothgallery_preloader
&smoothgallery_showArrows
&smoothgallery_showCarousel
&smoothgallery_showInfopane
&smoothgallery_slideInfoZoneOpacity
&smoothgallery_textShowCarousel
&smoothgallery_thumbHeight
&smoothgallery_thumbSpacing
&smoothgallery_thumbWidth
&smoothgallery_timed
&smoothgallery_width
&thumb_mask_bgcolor
&thumb_mask_img
&thumb_mask_position
&thumb_shadow_bgcolor
&thumb_shadow_path
&thumb_use_dropshadow
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&thumb_use_watermark
&thumb_watermark_font
&thumb_watermark_halign
&thumb_watermark_img
&thumb_watermark_txt
&thumb_watermark_txt_color
&thumb_watermark_txt_hmargin
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&thumb_watermark_type
&thumb_watermark_valign
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text Copyright
to the picture.
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Vertical margin of the watermark text (in pixels). Number (px) 15
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document
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if your FTP root path
directory
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number 21
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get pictures from pets
/
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documents. -1
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lists were pulled from the modx wiki
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EXAMPLE CALL &tpl=`story_summary`!]

Parameters description
&config Load a custom configuration

&dateFormat Format the [+date+] placeholder in human readable form

&dateSource Source of the [+date+] placeholder

&debug Output debugging information

&depth Number of levels deep to retrieve documents , 0 is infinite
&display Number of documents to display in the results
&ditto_base Location of Ditto files
&documents IDs of documents for Ditto to retrieve
&extenders Load an extender
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&format Output format to use
&globalFilterDelimiter Filter delimiter used to separate filters in the filter string
Allow Ditto to retrieve fields its template parser cannot handle
&hiddenFields
such as nested placeholders and [fields]
&hideFolders Don’t show folders in the returned results
Don’t show documents the guest or user does not have
&hidePrivate
permission
Unique ID for to this
see Ditto instance for connection with other
&id
scripts (like Reflect) and unique URL parameters
&IDs Internal variable which holds the set of IDs for Ditto to fetch
&idType type of IDs provided; can be either parents or documents
&item[x] Individual items rendered output
Enable fetching of associated keywords for each document
&keywords
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&language language for defaults, debug, and error messages
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&localFilterDelimiter
filter string
&noResults Text or chunk to display when there are no results
&orderBy An array that holds all criteria to sort the result set by.
&orderBy Sort the result set
&paginate Paginate the results set into pages of &display length.
&paginateAlwaysShowLinks Determine whether or not to always show previous next links
&paginateSplitterCharacter Splitter to use if always show is disabled
IDs of containers for Ditto to retrieve their children to &depth
&parents
depth
&phx Use PHx formatting
Initialize custom placeholders array for configs or extenders to
&placeholders
add to of documents to retrieve from the database, same as
Number
&queryLimit
MySQL LIMIT
&randomize Randomize the order of the output
Name of chunks to be stripped from content separated by
&removeChunk
commas
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&save
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&seeThruUnpub
when depth is greater than 1
&showInMenuOnly Show only documents visible in the menu
&showPublishedOnly Show only published documents
set the template variable or document attribute to sort by,
&sortBy
default is publish date
&sortDir change sort direction. DESC or ASC. default is DESC
&start Number of documents to skip in the results
&total Number of documents to retrieve
&tpl User defined chunk to format the documents
&tplAlt User defined chunk to format every other document
&tplCurrentDocument User defined chunk to format the current document
&tplFirst User defined chunk to format the first document
&tplLast User defined chunk to format the last document
&tplPaginateCurrentPage Template for the current page link
&tplPaginateNext Template for the next link
&tplPaginateNextOff Template for the inside of the next link
&tplPaginatePage Template for the page link
&tplPaginatePrevious Template for the previous link
&tplPaginatePreviousOff Template for the previous link when it is off
&where Custom MySQL WHERE statement
depreciated (I think) number of documents to show in list, use
&summarize
&display instead.
News Publisher scroll right -> http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.
php/Ditto
”default” default blank config file
possible values Example Usage Helpful links
CONFIG_NAME Other configs
installed in the configs folder or in
any
any folder
strftimewithin
formatthestring
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path via->@FILE http://www.php.net/strftime
to right

# of documents to display or "all"

for all documents

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folder or in any folder within the
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&folder folder id where blog posts are stored

set to 1 to automatically convert the parent document to a folder.
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to 0
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&postid
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&canpost public
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&headertpl news
footer
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content
&formtpl form template (chunk name)
&rtcontent name of a richtext content form field
&rtsummary name of a richtext summary form field
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&showinmenu
menu. Defaults to false (0)
&aliastitle set to 1 to use page title as alias suffix. Defaults to 0 - date created.
when set to 1 the system will automatically clear the site cache after
&clearcache
publishing an article.
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edit/delete/hide/publisch etc. every single article in a blog. !!! Use only one snippet per
page !!!
Parameter Description
&folder folder id where documents are stored
&makefolder set to 1 to automatically convert the parent document to a folder.
&postid document id to load after working with a news item.
document id used to modify an article ($_REQUEST['editid'] will hold
&editformid
the id of the document to modify)
&template name of template to use for news post
header template (chunk name) to be inserted at the begining of the
&headertpl
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footer content
template (chunk name) to be inserted at the end of the news
&footertpl
content
&rowtpl template used to display a single post (chunk name)
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&clearcache
updating an article
&nrposts number of posts to show per page
&paginate paginate
&prv chunk to be used inside the previous link
&nxt chunk toshow
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next link
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&prevnextsplitter
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&show chunk to be used for the show action
&edit chunk to be used for the edit action
&delete chunk to be used for the delete action
&refresh chunk to be used for the "move on top" action
&publish chunk to be used for the publish action
&unpublish chunk to be used for the unpublish action
&showinmenu chunk to be used for the "Show in menu" action
&hideinmenu chunk to be used for the "Hide in menu" action
&emptytext text to use when no news items are found

Request variables (via GET, POST, or COOKIE)

Request variables Description
deleteid id of post to delete
id of post for whic the 'createdon' property is set to now, thus
refreshid
effectively putting it at the top of the list
hidemenuid id of post for which the 'hidemenu' property must be changed
hidemenuvalue value to which 'hidemenu' must be set
publishid id of post for which the 'published' property must be changed
publishvalue value to which 'published' must be set

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[+pagetitle+] current post's page title
[+longtitle+] current post's article title
[+id+] current post's id
[+edit+] text for edit action
[+delete+] text for delete action
[+show+] text for show action
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[+totalpages+] total number of pages
[+start+] the # of the first item shown
[+stop+] the # of the last item shown
[+total+] the total # of items on the page
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sManagerDocs.html

Default value Parameter Description

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&canpost
comments.
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allowed in
&badwords
post
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&headertpl
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&footertpl
the end of the news content
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"Show"
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"Unpublish" longtitle News title
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&snipFolder (new in 1.4.4) (optional)
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&thankyou (Optional)
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&vericode (Optional)

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[edit]
Miscellaneous snippets, and or template hacks etc.
Name
formatdate snippet
includeDocContent
loginRedirect
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Code, hack, etc.
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/*
<?php
Created by Brandon Booth: bbooth@lucidgreen.net
/*
Last updated: December 14, 2008
<?php
Created
Parameters: by Brandon Booth: bbooth@lucidgreen.net
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if(empty($dateOutput)) return ''; //bail out if no value
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return '';} else {
?> return strftime($dateFormat, $date);
?> }
}
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?>
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into a
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need to make this format templateable with a
chunk or inline.