MODx
- Publisher: The MODx Team
- Language: PHP
- License(s): GPLv2
- Date Added: Sep 18, '09 13:12
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Description:
From the modxcms.com website:
"In laymen's terms, MODx helps even regular individuals manage content on their websites simply, quickly and intuitively. For the geek-elite, MODx is an Open Source PHP web application framework with a capable built-in Content Management System (CMS).
What really makes MODx different?
A combination of many things, including:
* MODx Rocks SEO – the simple truth is that if your site cannot be found in Search Engines, then it's all for naught. Today, playing the Search Engine Optimization game, hopefully using our SEO CMS, is almost mandatory for the vast majority of sites out there. MODx makes building sites that perform well in search engines exceptionally straightforward. You get 100% control of your content, structure and URLs. Happy SEOing!
* Simple templates – build a page and replace the content parts with some simple tags. No complex template system required, and XHTML/CSS sites are dead simple. Converting existing sites is typically very fast, too, taking 10-15 minutes for a basic template port thanks to our Template Variables (see below) and some helpful and free code Snippets. MODx is the Web Standards CMS of choice for thousands of savvy designers and developers worldwide.
* Unlimited hierarchy – it never made sense that in some systems you can't build sites as deeply-nested as you want in some system. MODx has no such restrictions. If most sites start with a sitemap then why shouldn't you be able to build them that way in your framework?
* Template Variables (TVs) – you can have as many custom content fields as you want for your site with TVs. They can also have "widgets" attached to them to create things more easily like data grids, select boxes, pop-up lists and so on. (even questionable things like scrolling marquees as well...). This allows developers to turn complex content scenarios into a simple process of filling out an online form for content editors.
* @BINDINGS – this is one of the most unique aspects of MODx. It allows you to "bind" virtually anything as an input source or the default value to TVs: a logic evaluation (@EVAL), a value from an ancestor document (@INHERIT), an API call, a file uploaded to a specific directory on your web server (@FILE), an RSS feed, a file listing in a directory (@DIRECTORY), another page's content values found in your site (@DOCUMENT) or pretty much anything else you can dream up. The combination of @BINDINGS and the output transformation "widgets", like dynamically transforming an uploaded .csv file into a data grid, is a combination that many developers find aluring.
* QuickEdit front end editing – log into the manager, surf your site, and click the edit buttons that appear when you want to make changes. Edit from the front end while surfing and proofing your site.
In closing
Deploying MODx is a safe choice. It's been around for years, has won awards like Packt Publishing's Most Promising Open Source CMS for 2007 and has a strong community in many countries. It has been adopted by both publicly traded and large private corporations, has a vibrant pool of developers, has seen more than a dozen releases with no signs of that slowing down, and it gives organizations the freedom to work how they want and to see and modify all the source code at will. On behalf of the MODx project, we invite you to join our community of users and experience the MODx revolution."
