Content Elements

[kirillrdy]

Hi guys,
I was wondering if there an easier way of creating Content Elements ?
The guide looks like too much work just to get something as simple as
news section or blog runnig.

Also, Could anyone give me a hint on how to create webforms using
skylinecms or possibly a good plugin for rails that would do that ?

Thank you !
Skyline CMS is by far one of the better Rails CMS there is.
Great work guys !

Kirill R

[Luis Doubrava]

Hi Kirill,

First of all thank you for using SkylineCMS.
As for the content elements I'm afraid we can't make it much simpler.
Just think of when you add elements to a regular Rails application you
need a migration, a model, some views and controller actions.

In SkylineCMS it's pretty much the same (maybe even easier)

1. You need a migration and a model.
2. The views are split up in management (views) and presentation
(templates)
3. SkylineCMS will add the management actions for you so all you have
to do is tell it how to display your content item (pages_controller)

It may seem like a lot of text on the website but there really isn't
much to it when you get started. And if you run into problems just let
us know and we'll try to help as much as we can.

Cheers, Luis

[kirillrdy]

Hi Luis,

Thanks for your answer,

not sure if you got, I was also asking about web-forms?

is there any way of doing them in skyline ? or is there a plan to
implement such functionality ?

Cheers,

Kirill R

[Flurin Egger]

Hi Kirill,

We do have a web-forms plugin but its not part of the Skyline core and
there are currently no plans to opensource this plugin. If you're
interested, I can set up a demo for you though.

When we didn't have this plugin we used a variety of techniques to
allow users to place forms on their sites and have some level of
influence on them. We used a combination of the following:

1. Using a Settings page: this works best if you have one or two forms
and want the user to be able to change some aspects of the form by
changing the settings. You create the form in a regular view/
controller/model and read out the settings when you're rendering it.
You could even make a setting where the user can choose the page he
want's the form to render on.

2. Create a custom section where you let the user "configure" the
form. In this case you also need to have some kind of handling in the
pages controller (an external controller would also be possible but is
a bit trickier).

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Flurin