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2Feb/1115

Custom Template Variables in Evolution 1.5

In this tutorial, I walk you through creating a custom template variable. Some links mentioned in this tutorial are:

Custom TVs in MODx Evolution part 1

Custom TVs in MODx Evolution part 2

Custom TVs in MODx Evolution part 3

Custom TVs in MODx Evolution part 4

 

 

 

 

 

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  • http://designfromwithin.com/ DESIGNfromWITHIN

    Nice tut, but you do know Revolution is out right?

  • Chuck Trukk

    Hey DfW,

    Thanks for the props. Evolution will continue to be supported for another 1-2 years. A lot of websites are using it, and 1.5 has some phenomenal tricks like custom TVs.

    I’ve spoken to a number of developers who plan on sticking with Evolution for a while. And I think these custom TVs give ole Evo some more life.

  • http://sottwell.com Susan Ottwell

    Evo will be supported for a lot longer than 1-2 years.

  • Er

    This is great tutorial !! could be a Little more useful if you where to share the code, so we wouldn’t have to retype it and try to figure it out, but thanks for this is exactly what I was looking for.

  • kp52

    Great stuff, thank you. It has cleared some of the fog for me about what these things are actually for!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HAUKTH65AUB56YNQYZNROTNPSE Christian

    thanks so much for creating these videos – great to see!
    I would have had no idea otherwise

  • Chuck Trukk

    Hey Er,

    That’s a really good idea. I will try to setup a way to post the code next time.

  • Chuck Trukk

    Thanks for the compliments. I love the power MODx brings and cant wait to see how people in the community think outside of the box and do some amazing things with custom tvs.

  • Chuck Trukk

    Have you thought of any cool ideas that could be implemented as custom tvs?

  • http://twitter.com/mrhaw Andreas Wettainen

    You ROCK

  • Anonymous

    No Andreas, You rock!

  • bunk58

    Excellent, detailed tutorial.
    I now have a selectable, order-able list of all my sidebar chunks available for each document

  • http://twitter.com/peterbowyer Peter Bowyer

    In the title you say this is for MODX Evo 1.5, but isn’t this already available in 1.0.5?

    Also, any thoughts on a Javascript inclusion system so you could use many different custom TVs on a page, and not have to worry about including jQuery multiple times? Because each one (if it were the only custom TV on a page) would need to include it… My code went some way to handling this (at the cost of modifying ManagerManager), but it wasn’t neat, and I’d like to know if you have a solution for this too? It’s very easy to end up with multiple copies of jQuery included, each overwriting previously included plugins :)

  • Max

    Is the snippet code that makes this happen available somewhere?

    Thanks!

  • Alex

    This is great tutorial!
    Show me how to tie Google-map, please ? To save a point on the map.

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