1. Getting Started
      1. Basic Installation
      2. What is MODx
    2. Content Editing
      1. Editing Documents
      2. MODx Tags
        1. Document Variables
      3. Terminology
      4. The Manager
      5. Who Should Read This
    3. Designing
      1. Adding Chunks
      2. Adding MODx Tags
        1. Resource Fields
      3. Adding Snippets
      4. Document Caching
      5. Template Basics
    4. Administration
      1. Friendly URL Solutions
      2. Manager Users
        1. Manager Roles And Groups
        2. Reset your Password - Unblock your User
        3. Why Manager Users, Roles and Groups
      3. Moving Site
      4. Taking sites down for maintenance
      5. Upgrading
      6. Web Users
        1. Creating a Web User
        2. Web User Groups and Document Groups
        3. Why Web Users and Groups
    5. Developer's Guide
      1. API Reference
        1. DBAPI
          1. delete
          2. escape
          3. getInsertId
          4. query
          5. select
          6. update
        2. Document Object
        3. DocumentParser Object
          1. addEventListener
          2. changeWebUserPassword
          3. documentContent
          4. documentGenerated
          5. documentIdentifier
          6. documentListing
          7. documentMethod
          8. documentObject
          9. getAllChildren
          10. getCachePath
          11. getChildIds
          12. getDocumentChildren
          13. getDocumentChildrenTVarOutput
          14. getDocumentChildrenTVars
          15. getLoginUserID
          16. getLoginUserName
          17. getLoginUserType
          18. getManagerPath
          19. getParent
          20. getParentIds
          21. getUserData
          22. hasPermission
          23. isBackend
          24. isFrontend
          25. logEvent
          26. maxParserPasses
          27. minParserPasses
          28. regClientCSS
          29. runSnippet
          30. table_prefix
          31. tstart
          32. webAlert
      2. Chunks
      3. Modules
        1. How to create and run a module from within the Content Manager
        2. Managing module dependencies
        3. Setting up configuration parameters
        4. Writing the module code
      4. Plugins
      5. Snippets
      6. Template Variables
        1. (at) Binding
          1. (at)CHUNK
          2. (at)DIRECTORY
          3. (at)DOCUMENT
          4. (at)EVAL
          5. (at)FILE
          6. (at)INHERIT
          7. (at)SELECT
          8. What are (at) Bindings
        2. Creating a Template Variable
        3. What are Template Variables
        4. Widgets
          1. Misc. Widget
          2. DataGrid Widget
          3. Floater Widget
          4. Hyperlink Widget
          5. Marquee Widget
          6. RichTextBox Widget
          7. Ticker Widget
          8. Viewport Widget
          9. What are Widgets

Adding Chunks

Chunks are simply blocks of plain text or (X)HTML markup that is inserted directly into your page at the location you place the tags.

To create a chunk, go to the Manage Resources section and select the Chunks tab. Give the chunk a name and a brief description, then enter the text or HTML code you wish to have included in your document.

To use a chunk, put the MODx chunk tags with its name where you want that content to appear:

{{MyChunk}}

Chunks are useful for any content or HTML markup that you might want to repeat in different pages or different templates. They are a good way to keep your template code clean and uncluttered with odd bits of content. A common use for a chunk is for footer content. If you place the content in a chunk then put the chunk tags in the footer of your template, even if you have several templates you'll only need to edit your footer content in one place.

Another good use for chunks is to provide small templates for snippets that use forms. The WebLogin Snippets uses an optional chunk containing the HTML for the login form if you don't like the default form. The [Ditto] and Wayfinder snippets also use chunks for controlling the layout of the snippet output.

While a chunk cannot itself contain PHP code, it can contain snippets and TVs that do have PHP code.

For more advanced uses of chunks, see Chunks and @CHUNK (at)CHUNK bindings in the Developer's Guide.

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