I’m not sure where to put this, but having worked with the Perch CMS (which is awesome) and trying to get it to play nicely with Freeway Pro is really frustrating. Integrating Perch or any other CMS with Freeway Pro would be so much easier if softpress would allow Pro users to edit code directly within Freeway instead of having to resort to actions like Crowbar to get things to work.
What should be an easy-to-use application becomes very difficult when you have to find work-a-rounds to install a simple CMS. And yes, I know WebYep works better with Freeway pro, but that’s only because one of our forum members took the time to develop a WebYep interface.
If softpress won’t allow Pro users to edit code they should at the very least consider adding a CMS with the next release of Freeway Pro. One that uses a MySQL database would be best, IMHO.
And to add to this - for Softpress to offer a CMS it would have to be very restricted so that it would work on the lowest common denominator of Server as not all hosting plans offer the same features ie PHP, MySql, Linux, Unix, Windoze etc
Not worth them (Softpress) wasting time over when there are so many specialist developers out there offering systems for every flavour of server and operating system.
I suppose you’re right, and I was being rather selfish when I posted this.
My current issue is trying to create new Perch templates. Having given this some thought, I suppose I could create the page in FWP, upload it to my server, then root through the code to find what I need to generate the Perch template.
Sadly, that is a great way to become really really angry. If you ever upload from Freeway again, all of your careful changes will be noted by Freeway as “damage” and over-written.
The very best way to work this out is to learn to work within the code editing tools that Freeway gives you, or to use various Actions to modify the page as it’s being published to the same end. The goal is to coerce Freeway into generating the layout plus your modifications all in one pass as it publishes. That way you can separate the layout from the logic and make changes to whichever part needs the help.
Walter
On Sep 13, 2012, at 2:09 PM, RavenManiac wrote:
I suppose you’re right, and I was being rather selfish when I posted this.
My current issue is trying to create new Perch templates. Having given this some thought, I suppose I could create the page in FWP, upload it to my server, then root through the code to find what I need to generate the Perch template.
When you say “Perch templates” I assume you’re referring to the
Perch-specific code that tells the app how to handle the content and not the html page structure? If so, then FW is of no help when
building a ‘Perch template’ (like the one below). You need to write that
stuff by hand based on what you’re trying to accomplish. If you want to
build an HTML structure, a ‘page’, then FW can do that but they are 2
completely different things. You will need a proper editor to write your
‘templates’, in Perch-speak.
My current issue is trying to create new Perch templates. Having given this some thought, I suppose I could create the page in FWP, upload it to my server, then root through the code to find what I need to generate the Perch template.
RavenManiac mailto:email@hidden
September 13, 2012 2:27 PM
BTW, I’m using TextWrangler to edit code. Quite frankly, something
more powerful would probably be wasted on me. LOL
