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This book is an example-driven tutorial, which will take you from the installation of MODx through to configuration, customization, and deployment. Step-by-step instructions will enable you to build a fully-functional, feature-rich website quickly and without the knowledge of any programming language. This book is ideal for newcomers to MODx. Both beginners and experienced web developers will benefit from this comprehensive guide to MODx. No knowledge of PHP programming or any templating language is needed, but the more advanced chapters towards the end of the book will allow more confident developers to extend their applications even further by creating their own snippets.
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3 人中、3人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Pretty good book. Very misleading title, though
2011/6/5
形式:ペーパーバック
I reviewed the first version of this. It was a very positive review, because I felt that it filled a need, that of providing guidance to the new MODx user. It did this admirably well. Anyone who regularly uses open-source content management systems knows that much of the info is scattered in forums, individual blog posts, random other places, and sometimes even in official documentation. To me, it's useful to have much of this consolidated into one place.
I do agree with reviewers that said that it's not for gurus. They would not find much new info with either book. It seems to me that systems don't get guru books until they have a critical mass of popularity, and as much as I like MODx, I don't think it's quite there yet.
I have to scold the publisher and author on the title of this book, which is remarkably misguided. MODx 2 is Revolution (aka Revo), a completely new release, which has been out for awhile now. Accordingly, I was eager to see if there would be substantial Revo coverage. There isn't. They just have an extra chapter giving a quick overview of the Revo concepts. The entire rest of the book is devoted to MODx 1, aka Evolution or Evo.
I'm very puzzled by this. I can only think that maybe there was a publishing deadline, and Revo was not officially released at that date, so someone decided to put it out there with little Revo coverage. I think this is a mistake, both conceptually and commercially. In any case, if you want a book on Revo, you'll have to wait.
That said, Evo, in my opinion, will be operant for quite some time to come. It's still more stable than Revo, simply by virtue of its having been in use so long.
So if you're new to MODx, and want to learn the in's and out's of MODx 1, aka Evo, this book will be useful, and will also give you a very brief overview of Revo. If you already have the first book, I would pass on this.
I do agree with reviewers that said that it's not for gurus. They would not find much new info with either book. It seems to me that systems don't get guru books until they have a critical mass of popularity, and as much as I like MODx, I don't think it's quite there yet.
I have to scold the publisher and author on the title of this book, which is remarkably misguided. MODx 2 is Revolution (aka Revo), a completely new release, which has been out for awhile now. Accordingly, I was eager to see if there would be substantial Revo coverage. There isn't. They just have an extra chapter giving a quick overview of the Revo concepts. The entire rest of the book is devoted to MODx 1, aka Evolution or Evo.
I'm very puzzled by this. I can only think that maybe there was a publishing deadline, and Revo was not officially released at that date, so someone decided to put it out there with little Revo coverage. I think this is a mistake, both conceptually and commercially. In any case, if you want a book on Revo, you'll have to wait.
That said, Evo, in my opinion, will be operant for quite some time to come. It's still more stable than Revo, simply by virtue of its having been in use so long.
So if you're new to MODx, and want to learn the in's and out's of MODx 1, aka Evo, this book will be useful, and will also give you a very brief overview of Revo. If you already have the first book, I would pass on this.
1 人中、0人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Really should be 2.5
2012/1/13
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazonが確認した購入
This book has been out for almost a year and there is still only one review (besides this one)! That says something about the frustration some of us have had trying to learn MODx; there's very little material available. Thankfully we now have the new Bob Ray book as an alternative.
MODx Web Development has all the right material and is of a good length - not overwhelming. The order of topics and pace are also good. What made it of much less use to me were the errors in the examples. This is especially strange in a 2nd edition. When ever I finished an example it invariably would not work. Sometimes I could figure out why and sometime not. In addition, to create the examples, there is a lot of typing - they are not available for download although that could have been provided easily.O'Reilly Publishing provides a service called Safari that provides many books online. Turns out the first volume of this book is on Safari so I was able to cut and paste the example code and save myself some typing. The fact that the examples hadn't changed much from one edition to the next hints that there weren't that many changes and may explain why there were still so many errors.
Finally the errors got to me and I gave up about half way through and still not understanding MODx. Since then I've been using Drupal for which there are dozens of books available. Perhaps the new MODx book is worth a look but it sure is large for a CMS that is supposed to be so much easier to use than, say, Drupal.
MODx Web Development has all the right material and is of a good length - not overwhelming. The order of topics and pace are also good. What made it of much less use to me were the errors in the examples. This is especially strange in a 2nd edition. When ever I finished an example it invariably would not work. Sometimes I could figure out why and sometime not. In addition, to create the examples, there is a lot of typing - they are not available for download although that could have been provided easily.O'Reilly Publishing provides a service called Safari that provides many books online. Turns out the first volume of this book is on Safari so I was able to cut and paste the example code and save myself some typing. The fact that the examples hadn't changed much from one edition to the next hints that there weren't that many changes and may explain why there were still so many errors.
Finally the errors got to me and I gave up about half way through and still not understanding MODx. Since then I've been using Drupal for which there are dozens of books available. Perhaps the new MODx book is worth a look but it sure is large for a CMS that is supposed to be so much easier to use than, say, Drupal.
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