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Managing Paths in MODX Extras III

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: modx extras, managing paths, assets URL

What to do about the assets URL

Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 22, 2019

Scraping, Parsing, and API Use III

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: scraping, parsing, API, cURL, PHP

A generic cURL function for getting content or raw data from remote sites

Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 08, 2017

Path Troubles

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: paths, urls, include, MODX constants

Using the correct path and URL references to CSS, image, JS, PHP, and other files in code and in HTML

Read more | Comments (0) | Jun 30, 2016

How the Web Works

Posted by Bob Ray | Tags: url, http, request, web

A look at the inner workings of an http request

Read more | Comments (0) | Jan 09, 2014




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