pdoMenu and Claude AI

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This may interest some.

I did a website using tailwindcss and about to transfer the code for use in MODX. So I’m looking at the navigation, with all those classes and wondering about an easy way to do it.

So I used Google Gemini first, and pasted all the html and asked it to produce the pdoMenu snippet. It worked! But I notice it also put some html inline, which is fine. Then I switched to Claude and it gave me the snippet as well as the 3 tpl chunks the menu would use for the rows, parent, etc. I was pleasantly surprised.

So next time you need to do something similar, you know what to try.

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I have a project in ChatGPT called MODX. In the instructions, I asked it to respond as a MODX CMS expert. I’ve had it write a few snippets and even do some troubleshooting. It’s like having my own personal @bobray HA!

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Ah, excellent. Do you need a pro account for that? I haven’t made up my mind as to which service to commit to, though I lean towards Claude

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I don’t think so. I have the pro account 20/mo. It’s the cheapest staff of employees I’ve ever paid.

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I really like the MODX GPT ChatGPT - MODX GPT - it has helped me out of a jam on a number of occasions. :slight_smile:

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I noticed that there was a Claude plugin for PhpStorm. I installed it but haven’t had time to mess with it.

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Update: I tried to use the ClaudeMind plugin in PhpStorm but all I can get it to do is open a window that displays “nothing to show.” There’s no place to ask it anything or configure it for a project. Either I’m doing something wrong, or it’s not ready for prime time.

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Microsoft CoPilot works pretty good with understanding MODx as well. I think it is based on ChatGPT, so that is probably why.