Action List

The manager reads the controller name from the a URL parameter ($_REQUEST). Before 2.3 each action was a separate ID behind a modAction object; since 2.3 the action name (controller path) goes into a directly, and in 3.x modAction and ?a=<id> URLs are gone.

Is there a list of actions?¶

In 3.x there is no fixed, generated list of manager actions. The set of actions is:

• controllers under manager/controllers/default/** (plus PSR-4 classes in core/src/Revolution/Controllers/) — one file per manager page;
• menu entries in _build/data/transport.core.menus.php, whose action fields name those controllers.

The Menus page (?a=system/action) edits the menu tree; its Action field is a plain text field — there is no dropdown of known actions.

In 2.x such a list did exist and was hardcoded: _build/data/transport.core.actions.php shipped 52 modAction records with fixed IDs. That file is gone in 3.x.

If a is empty, the manager loads the welcome page — controlled by the welcome_action and welcome_namespace system settings (defaults welcome / core).

Actions in JavaScript¶

The 2.x MODx.action JS object (a map of action IDs, later controller names) no longer exists in 3.x — do not use it. Navigate with MODx.loadPage() instead:

// core controller with parameters
MODx.loadPage('resource/update', 'id=5');

// custom manager page controller in a namespace
MODx.loadPage('update', 'namespace=mycomponent&foo=bar&bar=foo');

MODx.loadPage builds ?a=… under the hood and exists since 2.0, so these calls work in 2.3+ and 3.x alike.

Historical: before Revolution 2.3¶

In 2.1/2.2 navigation went through the MODx.action map of IDs:

// 2.2 only — MODx.action maps to controller names prefixed with the namespace
MODx.loadPage(MODx.action['resource/update'], 'id=5');
MODx.loadPage(MODx.action['mycomponent:update'], 'foo=bar&bar=foo');
// Prior to Revo 2.2 you would need to use this, but risked collisions with core or other packages
MODx.loadPage(MODx.action['update'], 'foo=bar&bar=foo');

These snippets are kept for reading old code; they do not run in 3.x.