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Unit Testing XIV – Dependency Injection in the User Class

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: unit testing, dependency injection, inversion of control, DI, IOC, Codeception, PhpUnit

Adding Dependency Injection to the User class

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

Unit Testing XIII - Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: unit testing, dependency injection, inversion of control, DI, IOC, Codeception, PhpUnit

Using Inversion of Control (IOC) and Dependency Injection (DI), to improve your code

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

Controlling Plugin Execution

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: control, plugin, execution

Control which Manager pages a plugin will execute on

Read more | Comments (2) | Sep 27, 2016

Hiding the help button III

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: hiding, help, button, controlling, plugins

Hiding the help button in the Manager with CSS

Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 26, 2016

MODX 2.2 CMPs: An Anatomy Lesson

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: CMP, Anatomy, controllers, processors

An updated, best-practices, look at the architecture of a MODX Custom Manager Page (CMP) in MODX 2.2+.

Read more | Comments (0) | Mar 28, 2014

MODX CMPs: An Anatomy Lesson

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: cmps, anatomy, processors, controllers, connectors

A look at how typical pre-2.2 MODX CMPs work

Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 21, 2013




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