Why NextCMS: Data Providers

data providerspresent by Nguyen Huu Phuoc, founder of NextCMS thenextcms@gmail.com

 NextCMS is a content management, built on top of zend framework, dojo toolkit, and jquery it is free and open source software this slide tell you one of many reasons why you should choose NextCMS instead of other one

a few scenarios when you manage your website: insert link of a particular article to the article’s content upload a file and insert its link to the article’s content insert link of given category when build a menu search for photos that have been uploaded and use it as articles cover, album’s cover, or videos poster … and many other cases

how it is done in other CMS (insert link of an article to otherarticle, for example) do it manually (bad) 1. search for the article in the front-end 2. copy its link 3. insert the link to other article’s content open a popup (better but not good enough) 1. open a popup window 2. search for the article 3. click the article to insert its link

we need a better way to: search for data and reuse it data can be taken across modules

menu 2 1 3 providers main layout1. load the main layout of particular module dynamically (@developers: via ajax) the providers are loaded only one time2. open the providers from the main menu3. drag data from the providers and drop to the main layout

1. search 2. drag 3. dropexample: insert link of an attachment to the article’s content

example: upload new video where to upload video’s poster?Where are my upload buttons? where to upload video file?

example: upload new videowhere to upload video file? let’s use the uploader

example: upload new videowhere to upload video’s poster? let’s use the image/photo provider

@end-users we change user experiences we teach you a new, only one, and best way to reuse data whenever you want to reuse data, think about data provider the interface is cleaner and simpler (without uploading buttons, popup windows, etc.)

@developers you do NOT have to duplicate your code for common tasks (such as uploading, inserting common data, etc.) you can create your own providers (more details in the extensibility section)

access the providers: from the modules menu from the toolbox tab

provide various kind of data: basic file, image, link, video module specified attachment, banner, photo, tag, user, video, widget provided by 3rd-parties

example of link provider: insert link of particular articleto the article’s content

example of link provider: set the link of particularcategory to a menu item

example of file provider: browse and insert uploaded fileto the article’s content

example of uploader: upload and insert a file to thearticle’s content

example of image provider: upload new image banner please do NOT ask me where your upload buttons are

example of image provider: upload an image and set it asalbum’s cover

example of image provider: upload an image and set it asarticle’s cover

example of photo provider: use a photo to set videosposter

example of tag provider: tag an article

example of user provider: create a message filter that willmove all messages from same user to a folder

example of user provider: define the receivers when yousend new message

example of widget provider: insert a poll at the bottomof article’s content

example of widget provider: insert a widget to a page

providers can be removed/reattached at anytime

 auto set article cover’s title after dropping an image again: you will NOT see any upload buttons in the additional panel

 auto set video’s title after dropping an uploaded video again: you will NOT see any upload buttons in the additional panel

 auto set menu item’s title after dropping a link

 auto set banner’s title after dropping a banner file again: you will NOT see any upload buttons in the additional panel

 uploader:auto organize uploaded files based on current module

@developers: you can develop your own providers a provider actually is an extension support MVC

 support internationalization (i18n) english vietnamese

 it is possible to execute a javascript callback after dragging and dropping data dojo.subscribe("/app/global/dnd/ dojo.publish("/app/global/dnd/ onDropLink", function(data) { onDropLink", [{ ... url: linkUrl, }); title: linkTitle, source: sourceNode, target: targetNode }]); example: auto set the title of menu item after dropping a link to the URL box

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Why NextCMS: Data Providers

by Phuoc Nguyen Huu on Jun 29, 2012

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