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Live Content: Finding new ways to publish
- 1. Live Content Finding newways to Publish By Christopher Imrie Lead Developer, Moresoda
- 2. Christopher Imrie Lead Developer,Moresoda • Aerospace Engineer • Ex-freelancer • Adobe Certified Instructor • PHP, JS, MySQL • CodeIgniter, ExpressionEngine • Problem Solver
- 3. 3 Ideas • Live Content • Better ? Different? Flexible publish page Client side data Data services
- 4. Ideas & Techniques • New ideas lead to new techniques • My techniques != your techniques • Not gospel, just showing whats possible
- 5. The aim? Look at ExpressionEngine as different kind of publishing platform
- 6. Live Content Finding newways to publish Flexible Publish Page
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- 8. Publish Page • Easy to understand • Clients love it • Flexible • Extendible with Custom Fieldtypes • Could be better?
- 9. Publish Page Channel Fieldgroups Fieldtypes • Tedious? • Could be better? • Arcane?
- 10. What would bebetter? Channel Fieldtypes • Remove the fieldgroup concept? • Brandon Kelly proposed this (Aug 2010) • Problem persists...
- 11. The Problem Developer makes all the connections
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- 13. Article / NextAmerican City
- 14. WYSIWYG Editors • Designed as one size fits all • Bloat • HTML produced can be bag of hurt • Just awful for certain tasks (Blogging about code anyone?) • Developers love the control
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- 16. Let the publishercreate fields as they need them
- 17. What would thislook like?
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- 19. Technical Overview • JavaScript Fieldtype Framework • Powered by RequireJS (AMD, load on demand) • Many fields work without modification • A fieldtype can be a single JS file
- 20. Front end control Article Page Title WYSWYG • “Linear” story allows layout control Gallery • Each “block” can be targeted with CSS WYSWYG • RSS + Atom feeds still work Image
- 21. Open Source Github Coming Soon...
- 22. Live Content Finding newways to publish Client Side Data
- 23. Data • Store thousands of entries • Channels, Categories & Status • Extensible suite of template tags
- 24. Data What about client side data?
- 25. Client Side Data Control Panel Templates 1. AJAX request to custom 1. AJAX request to custom JS/XML module method template 2. Parse AJAX request 2. Channel Entries Tag 3. Query DB Not flexible enough 4. EE->output-> No query strings send_ajax_response()
- 26. Channel Entries API • PHP • Create, Update, Delete... • No Read API (!)
- 27. EE JavaScript API • Why doesn’t it exist? • Fieldtypes tricky • What about: • Channels • Categories • Entry meta data • Site preferences • Standardised & predictable
- 28. EE JavaScript API What would this look like?
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- 30. EEJS Overview • JavaScript Utility • Async (jQuery Deferreds) • Methods for: • Accessing Configuration • Building URLs (Templates, Actions, CP etc) • Channels and Channel Entries • Works in CP & Templates
- 31. EEJS in Templates • Works outside the Control Panel • Integrates with Web Apps • Makes your life easier
- 32. Open Source Github github.com/ckimrie/eejs
- 33. Live Content Finding newways to publish Data Services
- 34. Data Services • EEJS makes working with data easy • CP & Templates • What about off-site? • APIs • Mobile Apps
- 35. Data Services • No standard external API • Custom APIs possible with templates • Tedious
- 36. Data Services Like EEJS, standardised data can be made available
- 37. Considerations • REST • CodeIgniter, not ExpressionEngine • Performance EE Sessions, template tracking, template parsing, • Output format are not needed !
- 38. Data Services What would this look like?
- 39. Data API Demo
- 40. Data API Overview • CodeIgniter Application • No installation • Uses EE configuration • Cacheable • Separate App = Customisable
- 41. Open Source Github github.com/ckimrie/ee-data-api
- 42. So you’ve seen... 3 Ideas that make ExpressionEngine a different kind of publishing platform
- 43. 3 Ideas Flexible Publishing Client Side Data Data Services
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