Jun

14

SkyBlueCanvas Innovations

Filed Under SkyBlueCanvas CMS 

During the course of developing the next release of SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight CMS, I have made several innovations to SkyBlueCanvas as well as WYMeditor. For the time being this page will only describe the innovations but in the near future I will get the new extensions to WYMeditor ready for distribution as stand-alone plugins. If you would like to get a copy of any of these extensions in their current state I will be happy to provide them but I cannot offer any support at the present time because I am extremely busy working on the next release of SkyBlueCanvas and WYMeditor.

  • Canvas Lightweight PHP Framework | Demo

    I have been hard at work on 2 new versions of SkyBlueCanvas. The first is an incremental version release (v1.1) that will be available in the next month or so. The second is version 2.0 which as yet has no release date scheduled. Version 2.0 will be a major re-write of the core of SkyBlueCanvas and a major step forward in the maturity of the app. It is built on the Canvas Lightweight PHP Framework which will be released as a stand-alone project in conjuction with the SkyBlueCanvas Lightweight CMS.

    The framework makes lightweight PHP application development very painless and includes some very cool features such as the ability to interact with the front-end UI CSS and JavaScript from within the PHP code. For example, with the UI class in the framework, you can call jQuery actions such as this: 

        $ui->event(
        "input[@name='submit']", 
        'click', 
        "if (jQuery('#username').val() == '') alert('Username is required');"
    );

    Another example is the ability to call some pre-set UI rendering features such as:

        $ui->error('#username', 'Username is required');

    You can view a demo of and download the Canvas Lightweight PHP Framework at labs.skybluecanvas.com.

  • SkyBox for WYMeditor Overlays | Download

    This extension is a custom plugin for WYMeditor to replace the pop-up windows for Link, Image, Table and Paste with iBox overlays. I used the iBox overlay (with minor modifications) available from www.ibegin/labs/ibox. This is a modified version of iBox that fixes a couple of minor bugs and adds Safari 3.x compatibility. Additionally, the overlays use PHP-powered Ajax to load image thumbnails and internal links from your site.

  • Silver Skin for WYMeditor | Download

    This is a custom skin for WYMeditor 0.5 alpha. It includes custom button images and a silver-ish colored theme.

  • Dropify jQuery Extension | Download

    This is an extension for jQuery to turn any unordered list into a Drop Down Select menu.

There will be more innovations to come. Please check back periodically for the official releases of these and other SkyBlueCanvas, WYMeditor and jQuery extensions.

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