Planned innovations in MODx 0.9.7

This year we plan to release a new version of MODx 0.9.7. What is interesting there planned? A lot of fun! Apparently, the capabilities of the system will grow very significantly.

Our plans

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We have a lot of plans for the future of MODx. Some of
these are the ones that are more important and useful and are at the stage of
implementations are described below. Bearing in mind our own plans, we are interested
Your opinion. What, in your opinion, would be significant
improvement for MODx? Join our community
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Planned innovations in MODx 0.9.7

Some of the plans for MODx 0.9.7. Did you want to add something?

• Object Oriented Core. Completely rewritten under the object model is the core of the MODx system.
• Improved
  API. New, object-oriented, API capabilities, wider
  spanning the MODx core, which has a more consistent architecture.
• New
  manager. We remove the frames and add fully customizable templates with
  using AJAX for even more flexible MODx control. Fresh
  interface controlled by the new kernel MODx + Smarty + Ext + MooTools
• Installation
  and modx kernel update. New, more flexible kernel installer and
  update tool will make all installation paths 100%
  customizable. No more problems with similar external
  directories and resources.
• Installing packages. Facilities,
  make it easier to install, update, or migrate customized
  using modx content. Packages, with the ability to completely
  automated installation and updates will help separate add-ons
  from the MODx core and will contribute to your development by providing the opportunity
  import / export without loss of working components.
• User pooling and security model. Now there is no
  divisions between users and site managers - they will all become
  just by users. The same will happen with user groups and
  documents.
• Contexts (contexts). This is a new concept,
  which will allow to divide the whole environment into domains, subdomains, suites,
  cultural zones, specific web applications, etc.
• Improved
  i18n and i10n support. Cultures (cultures) and contexts (contexts) in
  bundle will ensure the internationalization of the entire structure and allow
  set the language, currency, date / time format, etc.
• More
  no eval (). Plugins, snippets and modules will be connected once,
  and called as a function. It will provide great opportunities.
  efficiency, stability and increase safety. Here you can
  to quote PHP creator Rasman Landorf: “If eval () is the answer,
  “If eval () is the answer to your question, you are almost certainly asking the wrong question.”)
• Controlled
  database session. The new session handler by default will provide
  more control and more customizable options including
  compatibility with the web server.
• Improved caching.
  The new core system and caching technique will help reduce the size of all
  cached files and organize a hierarchical folder structure.
• Caching
  results of queries to the database. The new kernel also allows you to cache
  database query results. That will reduce the load base
  data, expanding the possibilities, which is important for sites with large
  traffic volume.
• Kernel logging Provides a variety of
  error levels and results output, including ECHO, HTML and FILE. you also
  You can use this tool to check the log, error log,
  debugging, etc.
• Simplified terminology. Some basic modx concepts changed
  for more intuitive perception and brevity, according to
  modern common web terminology. The most important of these
  changes:
  
  • Web resources. (previously: documents and links) Any content that is managed by MODx and is directly accessible via URLs.
  • Items
    content. They are the elements that define the source resources,
    MODx-based and managed to be processed and,
    optional - displayed on the page.
  • Tags
    content. New name for new and existing tags that
    are executable, but not relevant to content items; i.e. they
    Do not define the original content of the page.
  
  
• Filtration
  content. New input and output filters - PHP classes that replace
  the current concept of widgets and MODx @ links, as well as extensions,
  formed by adding PHx formatting. This is a further expansion.
  with PHx, will allow access to any content item.
  
  • Input filters. Modify the original content and properties / parameters before processing.
  • Output filters Modify content after processing before output.
  
  
• Improved
  content analyzer. Its peculiarity is full recursiveness,
  independence of initial processing from inefficient and less flexible
  regular expressions, which are used now. Can
  quoting Jamie Zavinsky "Some people, faced with a problem,
  They think: “I see, regular expressions can be used here.”
  Now they have two problems.
  
  • Any item represented by a tag can be cached. To do this, you must use the symbol "!". For example:
    [[! snippet]] or [[! $ chunk]] or [[! * content]]
  • Any tag can contain nested tags. For example:
    [[~ [[++ site_start]]]] or [[! snippet? & tpl = `[[! getTemplate]]` & msg = `[[* introtext]]`]]
    Common tag format. To simplify the logic of parsing (analysis), improve
    work and avoid chaos, all tags have a single format: [[tag]].
  
  

	Old format	New format
Content Items
Template	no tag	no tag
Pattern variable	[* variable_name *]	[[* var_name]]
Chunk		[[$ name_chanka]]
Snippet	[[siipippet name]]	[[siipippet name]]
Plugin	no tag	no tag
Module	no tag	no tag
Content tags
Placeholder	[+ placeholder name +]	[[+ placeholder name]]
Link	[~ link ~]	[[~ link]]
System parameter	[(parameter_name)]	[[++ parameter_name]]
Tongue	no tag	[[% key_language_line]]

• Still
  more expandable, even less vulnerable. New Object Oriented
  the core will allow for convenient use of most major
  capabilities without changing the kernel code. This will help protect your
  advances in modernization.
• Web resources. Can
  Easily declare your own class to define and use
  own resources, from web services, to AJAX processor, to handler
  multimedia content or even integrate with third-party
  applications.
• Content elements / tags. Can define
  own content items and tags that will be processed
  third-party information and return the result. You can use them as
  any other content item. For example:
  [[-bobsCustomElement]]
• Content parser. Allows you to define your own class analyzer that would extend the standard features of parsing.
• Processing requests / responses. Skips or rejects requests / responses to the kernel calling methods.
• Handling sessions. Allows you to declare your own classes for handling user sessions in PHP standards.
• Error processing. Allow you to create your own class for handling PHP errors.
• Partial page caching. Provides great caching capabilities. Allows more efficient use of the cache.
• Caching database query results. Provides caching of database query results.

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