This website was developed a while before I decided to re-build my portfolio website. During the process of making this website it taught me how to manage a MODx project and keeping everything organized. In the blog post I will add some of the snippets I used while making freelance [the workspace].

First on the list is the GetAuthor snippet which is always useful when creating blog like sections on a website and you want to display the author of the page's name.

<?php
/* 
 * Returns the author of the post name
 */
$resource = isset ($resource) intval($resource) ? 
intval($resource) : '';

function getAuthor($createdby) {
    global $modx;

    $user = false;
    if ($createdby &> 0) {
        $user = $modx->getUserInfo($createdby);
    } else {
        $user = $modx->getWebUserInfo(abs($createdby));
    }
    if ($user === false) {
        // get admin user name
        $user = $modx->getUserInfo(1);
    }
    return ($user['fullname'] != "") ? $user['fullname'] : $user['username'];
}

return getAuthor($resource);
?>

Another great snippet to the websites I develop on MODx is the GetDate snippet. This snippet was developed by a friend of mine who is also a user of MODx, check out his website Stanislav Cmakal.

<?php
/**
 * @name News Date output
 * @author iDevGeek
 * @license Public Domain
 * @version 1.00
 * 
 * description
 */
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');
$output ='';
$date = 0;
// Show time
$time =  isset($time) ? $time : false;
$format = isset($format) ? $format : "d-M-Y";
if ($currentID) {
    $temp = $modx->getTemplateVar('pub_date', '*', $currentID);
    if (empty($temp['value'])) {
        //if not set get the create date
        $temp = $modx->getTemplateVar('createdon', '*', $currentID);
        $date = $temp['value'];
    } else {
        $date = $temp['value'];
    }
    $date = $time ? date($format . " h:i:s A", $date) : 
    date($format, $date);
    if ($date !== 0) {
        $output .= $date;
    } else {
        $output .= '---';
    }
}
echo $output;
?>