resourse.php: Faster Resource Creation for Large Imports

This legacy donor introduced resourse.php as a faster alternative to DocManager for programmatic resource creation in Evolution CMS. The motivation was simple: importing hundreds of documents with multiple TVs could take more than 30 seconds with heavier tooling.

The idea

Instead of routing everything through the standard manager-oriented flow, the library provided a leaner API for creating and updating resources during imports.

Example

include_once(MODX_BASE_PATH . '/assets/lib/resourse/resourse.php');

$resourse = resourse::Instance();
$resourse->set('template', 20);
$resourse->set('published', 1);
$resourse->set('hidemenu', 0);
$resourse->set('pagetitle', $modx->db->escape($row[1]));
$resourse->set('parent', $row[2]);
$resourse->set('alias', $row[3]);
$resourse->set('price', $row[4]);
$resourse->set('articul', $row[5]);
$resourse->save();
$resourse->clear_chache();

Reported result

According to the note, a CSV import of 1,200 resources with six TV values finished in only a few seconds during testing. That made the library interesting for catalogs, migrations, and mass content generation workflows.

Why it matters

This is a good example of the old Evolution ecosystem experimenting with narrower tools around real bottlenecks. Even if you would solve the same problem differently today, the design goal remains valid: bulk import tooling should not behave like a slow manager form loop.

Source: original community announcement.