Bob's Blog

Using a small utility snippet to create complex search criteria for the &where property of getResources or pdoResources or any other snippet that uses a &where property.

Retrieving the main content field of resources and elements the fast way with getValue().

Retrieving TV values fast with getValue()

Retrieving and handling resource date fields like editedon and createdon in code the fast way with getValue()

Getting and interpreting MODX boolean (Yes/No) fields in code

A very fast and efficient method for getting field values in MODX, from Jason Coward.

The ins and outs of how properties sent in a snippet tag arrive in the snippet.

An inside look at the MODX getOption() method, with some things about it you almost certainly didn't know.

Susan Ottwell's adaptation of my LogPageNotFound extra puts the page-not-found report in a Manager dashboard widget

A simple snippet to get the pagetitle of the current resource's parent.