Bringing Evo back to life again

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  sottwell Reply #171, 14 years, 5 months ago

  Quote from: microcipcip at Mar 31, 2012, 04:23 PM

  I am not sure, I don't understand Custom TVs, there is no documentation. I use Quill to create a dropdown list of resources in the manager. I can choose the parent, depth, identation, fieldname (in my version of Quill, which is different from the one in the extras section, I can also exclude resources by ID) and much more.
  
  Anyway, I think that it is similar to the @SELECT binding.

  With Custom TVs you can use @INCLUDE <filename> and then go crazy with your own code. Create whatever form you want; it can have multiple uploads, even its own TVs Iwhich Revo's MIGx does), it can store the input as strings or JSON-encoded arrays, anything you like. I've barely begun to scratch the surface, and realize the value of these things.
  
  The true beauty wills shine once you can create a class or library that both ends of the process use, the TV on the input side and the snippet on the output side. Since the TV actually includes the file rather than using eval() it's much more efficient.
  
  I'm planning to build up several useful ones. A start has been made here http://sottwell.com/custom-tvs.html
  
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  cipa Reply #172, 14 years, 5 months ago

  
  A start has been made here http://sottwell.com/custom-tvs.html
  

  Good stuff
  
  Thank you Susan
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  iusemodx Reply #173, 14 years, 5 months ago

  As a dedicated Evo fan who has used Evo since the very beginning of MODx, I think this sounds all promising, but there are a few questions that linger in my mind:
  
  

  
  
  • What time frame are we looking at to see realistic changes ?
  • Who is in control of what gets done and what not ?
  • Will the original MODx team be involved with any of the changes ?
  • Who will decide when a new release is ready - quality control ?

  
  As to requests:
  
  
  I personaly would like to see the DocManager be modified to cater for changing all "settings" elements aka "Other Properties" tab
  
  A cleaner PHX - although to date I have had no problems integrating it into the sites that I have built except one
  
  An up-to-date eForm - with previous modifications added, including removing XSS vulnerabilities
  
  I could think of more, but as its late and im tired its a little hard to think about work.
  
  I would like to thank all involved for getting the ball rolling again
  
  
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  Stefanie Reply #174, 14 years, 5 months ago

  A start is already done. Somewhere earlier in this thread, we made a decision to use ezSQL as database class, to be able, to use more database servers than MySQL.
  I've done some improvements last week, to get it fit for us. The first changes where already in the core of ezSQL. I've used the weekend to rewrite ezSQL to match coding standards, PHP 5, created PHPDoc, and corrected and extended some methods. You can see that on my github ezSQL sources: [urlhttps://github.com/sjstoelting/ezSQL/tree/PHP5.dev]https://github.com/sjstoelting/ezSQL/tree/PHP5.dev[/url].
  To finish that work, I'll have to write unit tests. The bodies are ready, but at one a clock this morning I needed a brake, I have to got to work to make a living
  
  In my development branch of Evo 1.1, which I decided would by a good version number for the first changes, the development started with getting a connection to the database through ezSQL. That is working, but not completely by now.
  
  In the next weeks I have to go over the SQL statements in Evo, to make them work not only with MySQL and add unit tests.
  
  Susan is working on TinyMCE and a lot of other things.
  
  But of course, any help is welcome, tell us, where you want to come in
  You find the sources at github in my Evo fork on https://github.com/sjstoelting/evolution/tree/1.1.dev
  
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  sottwell Reply #175, 14 years, 5 months ago

  I've made a lot of minor improvements (in my opinion anyway) and just early this morning fixed a bug in the latest ManagerManager. You can see what I've done in my fork->branch https://github.com/sottwell/evolution/tree/sottwell
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  microcipcip Reply #176, 14 years, 5 months ago

  I have created a new thead only for the Manager Restyling, because this thread is becoming a little bit messy.
  
  https://forums.modx.com/thread/75556/modx-evolution-manager-restyle-project
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  iusemodx Reply #177, 14 years, 5 months ago

  @Stefanie
  
  Kann es sein das du deutsch bist ?
  
  Sadly I am not a back-end developer, so programming and DB management is not something I can help with.
  
  Design, CSS, HTML, XHTML = no problem
  
  I am realistically a typical end user - with the addition of advanced templating knowledge
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  sottwell Reply #178, 14 years, 5 months ago

  Designers are just as important! We desperately need a new sample site, with a spiffy new template. I can't design my way out of a wet paper bag (or design the bag in the first place), so any help along those lines would be welcome. Besides, it's the typical end user input that will keep the rest of us from forgetting that not everybody can or wants to learn how to write their own plugins and custom TVs!
  
  I would like to have it using all the cutting-edge in HTML 5 and CSS 3. And I plan to demonstrate an installation of [url=http://conceptlogic.com/jcart/] a jQuery shopping cart, so that wold need a nice style as well. An AJAX slide-out contact form, neat stuff like that.
  
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  Although the HTML5/CSS3 page was done on Revo, templates work the same on both. [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 14 years, 5 months ago.]
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  Stefanie Reply #179, 14 years, 5 months ago

  Quote from: iusemodx at Apr 02, 2012, 06:17 PM

  @Stefanie
  
  Kann es sein das du deutsch bist ?
  
  

  
  Yes, I'm German.
  
  As you are a designer and not very good in programming, I'm a programmer and not very good in designing.
  
  Hey, this seems to go to be a community project
  
  PS.: And having example mobile pages with jQuery Mobile would be cool [ed. note: Stefanie last edited this post 14 years, 5 months ago.]
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  yama Reply #180, 14 years, 5 months ago

  I wish a compact and lightly package... I want to exclude add-ons, like Revo...
  I hope a core system as it being made easier-to-use.
  

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