MODX Services

What is a Service?¶

A service is any object stored in the dependency injection container ($modx->services). In 2.x, and still in 3.x, many extras also load services with $modx->getService. That helper is deprecated in 3.x. Prefer has / add / get on $modx->services.

Once a service is in the container, you can also hang it on $modx yourself ($modx->error = $modx->services->get('error')). getService did that automatically.

$modx->services->add('twitter', function($c) use ($modx) {
    return new MyPackage\Twitter($modx, ['api_key' => 3212423]);
});
$modx->services->get('twitter')->tweet('Success!');

What are the Default Included Services?¶

A list of the core-included MODX Services is as follows:

1. modFileHandler
2. modMail
3. modRegistry

See Also¶

• modX.getService
• Dependency Injection Container