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Getting Started
- Video Quick-Start Series
- Server Requirements
- Installation
- An Overview of MODX
- FAQs & Troubleshooting
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Making Sites with MODx
- Structuring Your Site
- Tag Syntax
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Customizing Content
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Template Variables
- Creating a Template Variable
- Adding a Custom TV Type - MODX 2.2
- Bindings
- Template Variable Input Types
- Template Variable Output Types
- Adding a Custom TV Input Type
- Adding a Custom TV Output Type
- Creating a multi-select box for related pages in your template
- Accessing Template Variable Values via the API
- Properties and Property Sets
- Input and Output Filters (Output Modifiers)
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Template Variables
- Commonly Used Template Tags
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Administering Your Site
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Settings
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System Settings
- access_category_enabled
- date_timezone
- access_context_enabled
- access_resource_group_enabled
- allow_duplicate_alias
- allow_forward_across_contexts
- allow_multiple_emails
- allow_tags_in_post
- archive_with
- automatic_alias
- auto_check_pkg_updates
- auto_check_pkg_updates_cache_expire
- auto_menuindex
- base_help_url
- blocked_minutes
- cache_action_map
- cache_context_settings
- cache_db
- cache_db_expires
- cache_db_session
- cache_default
- cache_disabled
- cache_format
- cache_handler
- cache_json
- cache_json_expires
- cache_lang_js
- cache_lexicon_topics
- cache_noncore_lexicon_topics
- cache_resource
- cache_resource_expires
- cache_scripts
- cache_system_settings
- clear_cache_refresh_trees
- compress_css
- compress_js
- concat_js
- container_suffix
- cultureKey
- custom_resource_classes
- default_per_page
- default_template
- editor_css_path
- editor_css_selectors
- emailsender
- emailsubject
- enable_dragdrop
- error_page
- extension_packages
- failed_login_attempts
- feed_modx_news
- feed_modx_news_enabled
- feed_modx_security
- feed_modx_security_enabled
- fe_editor_lang
- filemanager_path
- filemanager_path_relative
- filemanager_url
- filemanager_url_relative
- forgot_login_email
- friendly_alias_lowercase_only
- forward_merge_excludes
- friendly_alias_max_length
- friendly_alias_restrict_chars
- friendly_alias_restrict_chars_pattern
- friendly_alias_strip_element_tags
- friendly_alias_translit
- friendly_alias_translit_class
- friendly_alias_translit_class_path
- friendly_alias_trim_chars
- friendly_alias_urls
- friendly_alias_word_delimiter
- friendly_alias_word_delimiters
- friendly_urls
- friendly_url_prefix
- friendly_url_suffix
- global_duplicate_uri_check
- hidemenu_default
- link_tag_scheme
- mail_charset
- mail_encoding
- mail_smtp_auth
- mail_smtp_helo
- mail_smtp_hosts
- mail_smtp_keepalive
- mail_smtp_pass
- mail_smtp_port
- mail_smtp_prefix
- mail_smtp_single_to
- mail_smtp_timeout
- mail_smtp_user
- mail_use_smtp
- manager_date_format
- manager_direction
- manager_favicon_url
- manager_language
- manager_lang_attribute
- manager_theme
- manager_time_format
- context_tree_sort
- context_tree_sortby
- context_tree_sortdir
- session_enabled
- modx_charset
- new_file_permissions
- new_folder_permissions
- password_generated_length
- password_min_length
- phpthumb_allow_src_above_docroot
- phpthumb_cache_maxage
- phpthumb_cache_maxfiles
- phpthumb_cache_maxsize
- phpthumb_cache_source_enabled
- phpthumb_document_root
- phpthumb_error_bgcolor
- phpthumb_error_fontsize
- phpthumb_error_textcolor
- phpthumb_far
- phpthumb_imagemagick_path
- phpthumb_nohotlink_enabled
- phpthumb_nohotlink_erase_image
- phpthumb_nohotlink_text_message
- phpthumb_nohotlink_valid_domains
- phpthumb_nooffsitelink_enabled
- phpthumb_nooffsitelink_erase_image
- phpthumb_nooffsitelink_require_refer
- phpthumb_nooffsitelink_text_message
- phpthumb_nooffsitelink_valid_domains
- phpthumb_nooffsitelink_watermark_src
- phpthumb_zoomcrop
- principal_targets
- proxy_auth_type
- proxy_host
- proxy_password
- proxy_port
- proxy_username
- publish_default
- rb_base_dir
- rb_base_url
- request_controller
- request_param_alias
- request_param_id
- resource_tree_node_name
- resource_tree_node_tooltip
- richtext_default
- search_default
- server_offset_time
- server_protocol
- session_cookie_domain
- session_cookie_lifetime
- session_cookie_path
- session_cookie_secure
- session_handler_class
- session_name
- settings_version
- signupemail_message
- site_name
- site_start
- site_status
- site_unavailable_message
- site_unavailable_page
- strip_image_paths
- symlink_merge_fields
- tree_default_sort
- tree_root_id
- tvs_below_content
- udperms_allowroot
- ui_debug_mode
- unauthorized_page
- upload_maxsize
- use_alias_path
- use_browser
- use_editor
- use_multibyte
- welcome_screen
- which_editor
- which_element_editor
- xhtml_urls
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System Settings
- Using Friendly URLs
- Contexts
- Customizing the Manager
- MODX GitHub Integrator's Guide
- Security
- Installing a Package
- Upgrading MODX
- Moving Your Site to a New Server, or to Root from Subfolder
- Media Sources
- Dashboards
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Settings
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Developing in MODx
- Code Standards
- Overview of MODx Development
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Basic Development
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Plugins
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System Events
- OnMODXInit
- OnBeforeCacheUpdate
- OnBeforeChunkFormDelete
- OnBeforeChunkFormSave
- OnBeforeDocFormDelete
- OnBeforeDocFormSave
- OnBeforeEmptyTrash
- OnBeforeManagerLogin
- OnBeforeManagerLogout
- OnBeforeManagerPageInit
- OnBeforePluginFormDelete
- OnBeforePluginFormSave
- OnBeforeSaveWebPageCache
- OnBeforeSnipFormDelete
- OnBeforeSnipFormSave
- OnBeforeTempFormDelete
- OnBeforeTempFormSave
- OnBeforeTVFormDelete
- OnBeforeTVFormSave
- OnBeforeUserActivate
- OnBeforeUserFormDelete
- OnBeforeUserFormSave
- OnBeforeWebLogin
- OnBeforeWebLogout
- OnCacheUpdate
- OnCategoryBeforeRemove
- OnCategoryBeforeSave
- OnCategoryRemove
- OnCategorySave
- OnChunkBeforeRemove
- OnChunkBeforeSave
- OnChunkFormDelete
- OnChunkFormPrerender
- OnChunkFormRender
- OnChunkFormSave
- OnChunkRemove
- OnChunkSave
- OnContextBeforeRemove
- OnContextBeforeSave
- OnContextFormPrerender
- OnContextFormRender
- OnContextRemove
- OnContextSave
- OnDocFormDelete
- OnDocFormPrerender
- OnDocFormRender
- OnDocFormSave
- OnDocPublished
- OnDocUnPublished
- OnEmptyTrash
- OnFileManagerUpload
- OnHandleRequest
- OnInitCulture
- OnLoadWebDocument
- OnLoadWebPageCache
- OnManagerAuthentication
- OnManagerLogin
- OnManagerLoginFormPrerender
- OnManagerLoginFormRender
- OnManagerLogout
- OnManagerPageAfterRender
- OnManagerPageBeforeRender
- OnManagerPageInit
- OnPageNotFound
- OnPageUnauthorized
- OnParseDocument
- OnPluginBeforeRemove
- OnPluginBeforeSave
- OnPluginEventRemove
- OnPluginFormDelete
- OnPluginFormPrerender
- OnPluginFormRender
- OnPluginFormSave
- OnPluginRemove
- OnPluginSave
- OnPropertySetBeforeRemove
- OnPropertySetBeforeSave
- OnPropertySetRemove
- OnPropertySetSave
- OnResourceGroupBeforeRemove
- OnResourceGroupBeforeSave
- OnResourceGroupRemove
- OnResourceGroupSave
- OnRichTextBrowserInit
- OnRichTextEditorInit
- OnRichTextEditorRegister
- OnSiteRefresh
- OnSiteSettingsRender
- OnTemplateVarBeforeRemove
- OnTemplateVarBeforeSave
- OnTemplateVarRemove
- OnTemplateVarSave
- OnUserActivate
- OnUserBeforeRemove
- OnUserBeforeSave
- OnUserChangePassword
- OnUserFormDelete
- OnUserFormSave
- OnUserNotFound
- OnUserRemove
- OnUserSave
- OnWebAuthentication
- OnWebLogin
- OnWebLogout
- OnWebPageComplete
- OnWebPageInit
- OnWebPagePrerender
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System Events
- Snippets
- xPDO
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Plugins
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Advanced Development
- Caching
- Custom Manager Pages
- Custom Resource Classes
- Extending modUser
- From the Command Line (CLI)
- Internationalization
- MODx Services
- Namespaces
- Package Management
- Using runProcessor
- Validating Requests: Tokens and Nonces
- Developing RESTful APIs
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Other Development Resources
- Summary of Legacy Code Removed in 2.1
- API Reference
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Class Reference
- modResource
- modChunk
- modUser
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modX
- modX.addEventListener
- modX.checkForLocks
- modX.checkSession
- modX.executeProcessor
- modX.getAuthenticatedUser
- modX.getCacheManager
- modX.getChildIds
- modX.getChunk
- modX.getConfig
- modX.getContext
- modX.getEventMap
- modX.getLoginUserID
- modX.getLoginUserName
- modX.getParentIds
- modX.getParser
- modX.getPlaceholder
- modX.getRegisteredClientScripts
- modX.getRegisteredClientStartupScripts
- modX.getRequest
- modX.getResponse
- modX.getService
- modX.getSessionState
- modX.getTree
- modX.getUser
- modX.getVersionData
- modX.handleRequest
- modX.hasPermission
- modX.initialize
- modX.invokeEvent
- modX.lexicon
- modX.makeUrl
- modX.parseChunk
- modX.regClientCSS
- modX.regClientHTMLBlock
- modX.regClientScript
- modX.regClientStartupHTMLBlock
- modX.regClientStartupScript
- modX.reloadConfig
- modX.removeAllEventListener
- modX.removeEventListener
- modX.runProcessor
- modX.runSnippet
- modX.sendError
- modX.sendErrorPage
- modX.sendForward
- modX.sendRedirect
- modX.sendUnauthorizedPage
- modX.setDebug
- modX.setPlaceholder
- modX.setPlaceholders
- modX.switchContext
- modX.toPlaceholder
- modX.toPlaceholders
- modX.unsetPlaceholder
- modX.unsetPlaceholders
- Loading MODx Externally
- Reserved Parameters
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Case Studies and Tutorials
- Developing an Extra in MODX Revolution
- Developing an Extra in MODX Revolution - MODX 2.1 and Earlier
- PHP Coding in MODx Revolution, Pt. I
- Using Custom Database Tables in your 3rd Party Components
- Creating a Blog in MODx Revolution
- Loading Pages in the Front-End via AJAX and jQuery Tabs
- Reverse Engineer xPDO Classes from Existing Database Table
- Integrating a Template into MODX Tutorial
- Quick and Easy MODX Tutorials
- Adding Custom Fields to Manager Forms
- Create a Multilingual Website with migxMultiLang
- Managing Resources and Elements via SVN
- MODX Community Information
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Getting Started
server_offset_time
server_offset_time
Name: Server Offset Time
Type: Number
Default: 0
MODX uses this setting to show dates and times (e.g. the Published On, Publish Date, Unpublish Date of a Resource) to Manager users in their Local Time. The intent is to free users from having to consider the server time when reading or setting dates and times. As a System Setting, it applies to all users automatically, but can be overridden per-user with a User Setting.
Enter the number of hours time difference between where you or your Manager users are and where the server is. Fractional and negative hours are valid, e.g. 1.5, -0.5. A value of 1 will set Local Time 1 hour ahead of the Server Time.
The Reports > System Info page shows you both the Server Time and Local Time, so it's a good way to confirm you've set this correctly.
This setting is handled incorrectly in some places in MODX prior to 2.2.7, notably in the handling of auto publishing and unpublishing.
Server Time here means what time PHP thinks it is, i.e. with the time() function. MODX stores and compares Resource-related dates and times as Unix timestamps, relative to Server Time. The server_offset_time is used to calculate Local Time only in the view.
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