Syntactic sugar

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Op http://wps.i-v-o.nl/ staat sinds vandaag een vernieuwde demo-website van WPS.  Met deze demo-website kan je lezen over wat WPS is, wat het kan, hoe het werkt en je kan spelen met het systeem.

Wat is WPS

WPS staat voor Web Publishing System. Geen spannende afkorting, maar het dekt de lading wel goed. WPS is namelijk geen klassiek Content Management Systeem (CMS) maar veel meer. Een klassiek CMS zorgt er eigenlijk alleen maar voor dat je de inhoud van je website kunt bewerken, dat doe je dan eigenlijk altijd op een aparte website (ook wel backend genoemd). Zo’n CMS is harstikke mooi, maar er moet ook een ‘voorkant’, je website, geprogrammeerd worden, en dat kan best een tijdrovende klus worden. WPS is een publicatiesysteem en zorgt dus niet alleen voor de CMS functie, maar ook voor het publiceren; de voorkant van je website.

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I’m currently still optimizing and debugging a fresh release of Crudder, e.t.a of this release will be somewhere around the midst of March.
Changes:

• Updates without any affected_rows will not trigger an error anymore, SQL-errors are still caught though
• MultiLinked fields _should_ work better on MSIE, but you never know; IE sucks at being any kind of predictable (and all other things a browser should do).
• Language-settings of the interface-texts actually work
• new feat: thouroughCheck; checks whether a table has non-nullable fields and will make those fields mandatory
• new feat: exporting data to CSV (currently the output with default-settings is suitable for openOffice)
• new feat: Advanced filtering / Querybuilder

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I needed a simple, easy to implement and lightweight library to allow a customer to Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD) records in a database. Nothing special here; i could have made a custom PHP-script for this, takes 2 to 3 hours of tedious and annoying work. Instead I googled for something that could do this with minimal configuration, has a small footprint and uses ajax. I ran into fullblown frameworks, with a lot of configuration, or small projects, written spaghetti-style, lot of them a PIA to implement without having to search/replace for paths & includes.

So; I decided to create something like this myself, without a large PHP-Framework, completely written OOP-style (including the Javascript) and when finished it should be able to run with approx. 4 lines of code (not counting the table-definition).

The idea is quite simple; the UI is generated from javascript, no PHP here, configuration is done by one XML file, which contains both controlling-values (theme, language, connectionstring) and the table-definition (which fields to display, what kind of editor to use).

What will you need to run Crudder?
- A LAMP-server (prolly work on IIS-PHP too)
- PHP compiled with DOM and XSL-t-extensions

What 3rdparty code will be used:
- Prototype.js
- ADODB5 (the lite-version will prolly work, I will test this)
- TinyMCE

Check out crudder.net

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I’m very happy to announce the first (preview) release of tLiner (time-liner). tLiner is a script that ‘hooks’ into the Flash-player from Jeroen Wijering and creates a time-line-based messaging-widget.

Your website-visitors can now react to certain parts of a audio- or videofile, no more :
“1:21 : she said daddy!! ahhhh” or ” @0:58 can you see that disc flying behind him?”, just press “React to this timeline” when a funny or interesting part of a video moves along and enter anything you have to say. When other visitors reach that particular video-moment the message will appear (and you can reply to it).

The script is still an early Alpha, needs to be cleaned up and refactored. I’ll be releasing this script for download in a while, prolly as GPL.

For now, you can watch a demo below, or generate a widget for your own blog on http://www.tliner.com

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Other features/wannahave’s:

• More/Better Help-functions, possibly integrated into WPS itself.
• Multi-language-support, not only for editMode, but also for the publishing modules themselves
• Sandbox-support out of the box, no need for a specific subdomain or VirtualHost
• New site-manager; an overview of pages/contentblocks from a grid/treeview.
• Link-checker/mover; Checks internal links to WPS-pages or renames them when a page is renamed
• More wizards for general functions (add page/block etc).
• Template-editting : access and edit XSL-stylesheets that make up the layout/design of your WPS-site
• Empty-cache-button
• Filemanager needs to be rewritten to be MUCH faster and uses less resources
• Custom-XML-tags-support in content-editors, more editing-facilities in content-editors
• Install/Configuration/Security-audit – scripts
• Version-control

buTTon CMS, Content Publishing, PHP, WPS publishing, WPS