Front end content editing

woooo, nice ideas here!

This is definitely a nice plus because at times it’s easier to visualize from the front end rather than from the backend (admin) side.

My. Clients. Would. Love. It.

’nuff said!

Now look what you guys have caused my to do

Ok, I’ll tweak the core a little to support another cool event called "OnParseDocumentSource"

This new event will enable us to convert Adam’s frontpage editing APIs into a standalone plugin. But that’s not all. With this new event you’ll event be able to override the builtin snippet parsing functions! This means that you could also create new plugins that are able to parse "custom tags" inside your documents.

Example:

I could create a plugin that I can use to parse BBCodes:

MODx Rocks
MODx

Or maybe proccess a few other block tags:

[textile]
* List1!
* List2!
[/textile]

[markdown]
* List1!
* List2!
[/markdown]

How about some special tags:

(*Movie*)
(*weather*)
$[time]

The true is you might even want to make your own scripting language:

#IF[time==11:00] @Say "Hi World!"
#runFunctions(param1,param2)

 echo "Whatever!";

Well, let’s put at it this way, with plugins, you can have it your way!

MODx - Have it your way today !

Coming soon

Raymond, as with most things, you continue to amaze. When this all sinks in and we start to assimilate it’s implications, all I can say is cool. Very cool. That and I’ve now got about 100 new ideas.

This is really cool. There is certainly a lot of potential way beyond fontend editing. This will definitely be a great new feature.

I haven’t done much with plugins yet so I’ll have to look into it a bit before I can turn the hack into a plugin, but it should be easy enough to get a handle on. Do you see any difficulties in turning the actual editor window into a plugin somehow?

One more quick comment before I hit the sack...

Frontend Editing sounds kinda techie and probably confusing to the not-so-web-savvy. I think we should come up with a better name for it. What about Quick Edit, Eazy Edit or maybe even Context Editing? Any other suggestions?

Edit in Place.

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I like - quick edit

Simple and to the point

Quote from: xwisdom at Jul 29, 2005, 12:23 AM

MODx Rocks
MODx

Or maybe proccess a few other block tags:

[textile]
* List1!
* List2!
[/textile]

[markdown]
* List1!
* List2!
[/markdown]

How about some special tags:

(*Movie*)
(*weather*)
$[time]

The true is you might even want to make your own scripting language:

#IF[time==11:00] @Say "Hi World!"
#runFunctions(param1,param2)

 echo "Whatever!";

Well, let’s put at it this way, with plugins, you can have it your way!

MODx - Have it your way today !

Coming soon

o man ! o man !!!! There’s another scripting language coming out there !! MODx .NET

Brilliant ideas !!

Can’t wait to see it !!

Quote from: (zi) at Jul 29, 2005, 07:50 AM

o man ! o man !!!! There’s another scripting language coming out there !! MODx .NET

Brilliant ideas !!

Can’t wait to see it !!

lololol

That’s cool man.