Creating a Simple Name Library for Reusable Text in Evolution CMS

Projects often have small text fragments that appear in many places: phone numbers, company names, copyright lines, labels, and short legal notes. This article proposed a very simple “name library” approach for cases where a full settings layer feels excessive.

Chunk-based storage

Create a chunk named names and keep key-value pairs there, one per line:

copyright==Company Name
year==2012
phone==777-77-77

Lookup snippet

<?php
$godChunk = $modx->getChunk('names');
$paramLines = explode("
", $godChunk);
$paramArr = array();
foreach ($paramLines as $line) {
    list($param, $ppid) = explode('==', $line);
    $paramArr[$param] = $ppid;
}
return $paramArr[$is] ?? '';

Usage

[[name? &is=`copyright`]]

The original note also added a small manager shortcut to open the chunk quickly from the dashboard. It is a modest pattern, but still useful when you want centralized editable text without introducing another layer of complexity.