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The Composer Dependency Manager

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: Composer, dependency management

Managing dependencies between PHP packages

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 05, 2020

Unit, Integration, Functional, and Acceptance Testing

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: software testing, unit, integration, functional, acceptance

Defining the most common kinds of software tests.

Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 21, 2020

Software Testing and Test-driven Development

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: software testing, test-driven development, TDD

How software testing can change your life

Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 13, 2020

Understanding FormIt Hooks

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: FormIt, hooks

A look at how to use built-in and custom hooks with the FormIt extra

Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 01, 2020

Creating Additional Pages after a New Page is Created

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: plugin, related pages, processor

Using a plugin to create related pages after a new resource is created

Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 20, 2020

Creating MODX Articles in Code IV

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: Articles, creating, code, processor

Using the resource/create processor to create new Articles.

Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 11, 2020

Creating MODX Articles in Code III

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: Articles, creating, PHP, placeholders

Handling placeholders when creating Articles with PHP

Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 06, 2020

Creating MODX Articles in Code II

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: creating, code, PHP, Articles

Creating a blog Article using a MODX chunk for the content

Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 03, 2020

Creating MODX Articles in Code I

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: Articles, PHP, code, creating

Use a PHP script to create new blog Articles

Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 12, 2020

Including other Extras in a MODX Transport Package

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: Extras, dependencies, other extras, transport packages

What to do if your extra requires the installation of other extras

Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 07, 2020




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