This was previously a paid product and is now open source. The interesting aspect of this product (besides it being free) is you can take existing html pages as a start point to create a new template page with a simple cut and paste of the source code in the online editor. Then it’s a matter of replacing html tags with WebEdition tags for the editable parts. Sounds very much like EE or CMSMS.
Although this seems a bit odd to emphasize from a cms marketing stand point, their approach to the documentation and marketing is Mac centric which is not needed to run this cms.
I think it would be problematic. If the templates are in a format that can be replicated by an actions output, then it may be possible. As it stands the online admin is the only way to update a template.
Well, it is open source now, so making a widget in PHP that consumes
a Freeway-generated template from a particular folder on the server,
checks to see if it’s newer than the database record of that
template in the database, and imports it if necessary wouldn’t be
entirely out of the question. There’s probably a way to make this
work, using a combination of Actions to insert the various template
tags directly in the design view, and then a simple file_get_contents
() call to slurp up the Freeway-published code and inject it into the
database, there might actually be some traction there.
Walter
On Nov 20, 2008, at 11:57 AM, chuckamuck wrote:
I think it would be problematic. If the templates are in a format
that can be replicated by an actions output, then it may be
possible. As it stands the online admin is the only way to update a
template.
After taking a quick look at the demo admin page, it appears that a template page is simply an html text file with .tmpl as the file indentifier. It also seems to me from the cursory glance at the file structure that once you setup a new template page from the admin with it’s specified directory, you should be able to target that directory directly and replace the template directly. If no editing is done within the template initially it may then be possible to ignore the admin once the new template directory is established. I don’t actually know how much of the template is stored in the database but as far as the template file is concerned it could come from anywhere.
That’s cool. So it comes from a specified folder, then? I guess the
only thing we would need to worry about is the image path. Can you
look to see what else is special about a template? I haven’t looked
at this product for maybe three years.
Walter
On Nov 20, 2008, at 5:54 PM, chuckamuck wrote:
After taking a quick look at the demo admin page, it appears that a
template page is simply an html text file with .tmpl as the file
indentifier. It also seems to me from the cursory glance at the
file structure that once you setup a new template page from the
admin with it’s specified directory, you should be able to target
that directory directly and replace the template directly.
Ok, on further play I generated a new template page from the admin. The functionality to create a new directory is there but is turned off but this is what you would want to do to house the supporting directories for all the extras that follow the page.
The bare bones template file with nothing on it has preconfigured tags for:
we:title, we:description, we:keywords, and we:charset after head. Then the body is preset and styled with a table and the following tags (i’ll leave out the parameters):
we:ifNotEmpty, we:img, we:ifEditmode, and we:textarea.
That’s all there is by just creating a new template and not specifying anything. I would assume this is the bare minimum necessary for the template to function.
On the images it looks like you would have to setup a subdirectory to upload them to. Then you could choose the images in the admin editor from that folder.