So we’ve talked about Membrane’s CRUDController, and as stated most of the time developers won’t need to do anything more than inherit from the CRUDController when writing new plugins. There will be occasions where developers need to overwrite the functionality of the CRUDService though.
I’ve banged on about Membrane having a CRUD Controller and Service quite a few times now. I suppose it’s time to explain this a little more. Especially as we now have some basic Membrane functionality running directly off them. (I’ll talk about the CRUDService in a later post, as most plugin controllers will not have to deal with it).
It’s been a while since I last blogged about Membrane and it really is time to give a progress report and where possible try and encourage more developers to get involved.
I may repeat myself a bit here from the previous post regarding content editing, but I think it’s worth putting everything together in one post. This post has been written following more discussions with the team at the yorkshire based marketing agency I work at.
Just came across a post about JavaScript compression for MonoRail. These guys have written a great patch for Hammett’s CombineJS Component.
I’ve been giving the navigation management section of Membrane some thought over the weekend. This has also meant I’ve had to consider the url rewriting side of things.
In my last post about Hijax I was only hijacking links. Here’s what I had to do to hijack form submissions.
No coding has started on this section of Membrane yet, however I need to start considering the functionality as this will impact quite a few other areas of the system.
Whilst working on the Asset Library for Membrane I decided that I needed to improve the user experience by adding some AJAX into the mix. This can be done fairly easily in MonoRail but I didn’t want to go down the route of using brailjs and I wanted to keep everything accessible. Hijax to the rescue!
The Asset Library will allow CMS users and administrators to store files relating to their sites including:
