Sample FW/1 and DI/1 application

[Simon Bingham]

I thought group members might be interested to learn that I released a CFML content management system last week that uses FW/1 and DI/1. You'll find the project on GitHub.

This is my first open source project so it would be great to get some feedback and contributions from other FW/1 users. I hope the application will also be helpful to those wanting to learn FW/1.

Apologies for the shameless plug! ;)

[Phil Cruz]

Cool. Is there a site/demo of this where we can check it out. 

-Phil

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[Matt Quackenbush]

Simon,

A friend and I stumbled upon your project last week (I think the day it came out?). I have forked it, and intend to give it a thorough going through as soon as possible. I/we will provide feedback when we've had a chance to play with it.

From one OSS author/contributor to another: Thanks for putting it out there! :-)

[Simon Bingham]

Hi Phil. That's a good point. Will put it on my todo list. Until then you'll just have to download it. ;) 

[Simon Bingham]

Thanks Matt. I look forward to your feedback.

[Sean Corfield]

Thank you for sharing this Simon!

Once I dig myself out from under the giant data migration and site
launches we've been going thru at World Singles, I'll try to spend
some serious time looking at this!

Sean

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Simon Bingham <m...@simonbingham.me.uk> wrote:

[Brandon]

Thank you! I'm planning to use FW1 on my next project, this is a perfect kickstart and it's exactly what I'm looking for! I'll give it a go and send feedbacks.

Brandon P.

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[Richard Tugwell]

Thanks for sharing Simon - I downloaded and ran the app, and it runs,
but I haven't had time to explore it much.

I see you provided a setup script with DDL for MySQL. I've removed the
DDL, and allowed ORM to create the tables itself. I used H2 Database,
on Railo 3.3.1, and marked the modified setup.sql as the
ORM.sqlscript. Of course you need to fiddle with the ORM.dbcreate
setting, but one of the big advantages with ORM (I think) is the
potential to make your application DB neutral. (There are some caveats
to this of course, but in general I think it's a good thing)

NB There's some duplicate code in setupApplication - validateThis instantiation

I'll try and give you some more feedback once I've had a closer look

Cheers

Richard

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[Richard Tugwell]

.. might also want to look at how relative links are handled to make
it portable - eg for assets such as JS/CSS - the current setup won't
find these files when the application is running in a specific context
root

[Simon Bingham]

Thanks for your feedback Richard. As suggested I've removed the DDL from the SQL setup script so ColdFusion now creates the database tables and the SQL script simply adds some initial records (https://github.com/simonbingham/xindi/blob/develop/_setup/setup.sql).

I've also amended the dbcreate setting in the Application.cfc file so, if a development environment is detected, the SQL setup script is run. However, I found that the setup script was being called for subsequent page requests so I have amended the code so the setup script is only run if a 'rebuild' parameter is found in the url. There maybe a better solution, but this seems to work.

if( this.development && !isNull( url.rebuild ) )

{

this.ormsettings.dbcreate = "dropcreate";

this.ormsettings.sqlscript = "_setup/setup.sql";

}

[Simon Bingham]

Any chance you could suggest a solution for this issue Richard? Thanks for you help. :)

[Richard Tugwell]

Well I don't think you want to always run drop/create in development. Unless you have an easy way of restoring your hard-earned test data!

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[Richard Tugwell]

I tend to avoid relative paths for these sort of assets, but I guess there are more experienced folk on the list who may have other solutions.

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[AJ Mercer]

For Railo express (Jetty) I had to add the following to etc\webdefault.xml

  <servlet-mapping>

    <servlet-name>CFMLServlet</servlet-name>

         ...

<url-pattern>/xindi/index.cfm/*</url-pattern>

It would seem that multiple wild cards is still not working in Jetty

    <url-pattern>*.cfm/*</url-pattern>

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[Simon Bingham]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll update the installation instructions.

[AJ Mercer]

I have not been able to run the site as yet, so you may want to hold off for a while.

In admin, I can add pages, but in the site I am not seeing the navigation being built.

How do you manually flush the cache?

[Matt Quackenbush]

I am experiencing this same behavior. The site map is never updated; it only shows 'Site Map'. Additionally, if I load the home page first, it is always displayed, no matter what the URL is. Conversely, if I load the site map first, it is always displayed, no matter what the URL is. That is, until a Tomcat restart.

NB: I have altered the GlobalEventHandler in order to run on Railo, but I rather doubt that has anything to do with the behavior I'm seeing (and apparently AJ is seeing - on ACF?).

Thanks!

[AJ Mercer]

I am on Railo Express (jetty)

I am running with friendly URLS turned off, but that does not seem to have helped

    generateSES = false

I have forked the project in GitHub.

From the website, does anyone know how I can get updates simonbingham/xindi?

Maybe I cant do anything as there have not been any updates in the last couple of days??

[Matt Quackenbush]

http://bradlyfeeley.com/2008/09/03/update-a-github-fork-from-the-original-repo/

[Sean Corfield]

Add Simon's original repo as a remote to your fork - typically you
call it 'upstream':

git remote add upstream git://github.com/simonbingham/xindi.git

Then you can pull/merge any changes Simon makes like this:

git pull upstream master

(where 'upstream' is the remote name and 'master' is the branch)

Then push his merged changes into your master repo:

git push

(make sure your repo is up to date before doing this - by at least
committing your own changes)

BTW, this is all very clearly documented on the github website:
http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/

Sean

[AJ Mercer]

Thanks Sean & Matt.

I will read up on this.

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[Simon Bingham]

I've been able to replicate the issue with the page requests not working in Railo, but haven't figured out what is causing it. Will take another look later.

Email: m...@simonbingham.me.uk 

Web: simonbingham.me.uk 

Twitter: simonbingham 

[Simon Bingham]

The latest version of Xindi should now work on Railo. Let me know if you have any further problems though. g...@github.com:simonbingham/xindi.git

[AJ Mercer]

That did the trick for me :-)

Thank you.

[Matt Quackenbush]

Dittos. Pages actually load now, and things show up in the site map. YAY!

Thanks, Simon. :-)

[Jim Priest]

Simon - I'm digging through the Xindi app - working on my first 'big' FW/1 app and trying to come up with ideas :) 

I like how you have the admin and public subsystems - but not sure why you have the two assets directories?  

/assets 

/admin/assets

I haven't setup the app yet locally to get it running - just poking through code... 

I also like you login / security redirect but am curious why you didn't use the before() method?

Thanks for the example!  

Jim 

[Simon Bingham]

Jim - thanks for reviewing the code and for your questions.

My thinking is that, although developers using Xindi will want to apply a custom design to the front end, they shouldn't need to change the design of the admin. Therefore, I think keeping the two assets directories separate makes sense. I think the subsystems also become more portable if they contain their associated assets. If you look at the 'develop' branch of Xindi (https://github.com/simonbingham/xindi/tree/develop) you'll notice that I have now moved the assets directory (containing the assets for the public subsystem) that was in the project root to the public directory.

I think you're right about using the before() method for the security redirect so I have implemented your suggestion (https://github.com/simonbingham/xindi/blob/develop/admin/controllers/main.cfc).

Thanks for your input.

[Jim Priest]

Thanks for the explanation.

I think it'll be more clear with the /assets under the public and
admin folder regarding your intentions of having independent designs.

I'll checkout your revised security today!

Jim

[Chanh Ong]

What if I don't want to use "enable search engine safe", can Xindi run without it?  Thanks

[Simon Bingham]

Yes, I think it will.

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