SkyBlueCanvas CMS

Templates - or skins - are the presentation layer of a web site and allow you to change the appearance of your site without making any changes to the content (text and pictures). The SkyBlueCanvas template system is very simple and very flexible. What your site looks like is limited only by your imagination.
Skins are [...]

SkyBlueCanvas is very flexible in how it allows you to place content in different regions on a page. The idea of Collections is closely tied to the way the skin (template) system works. You can even place the same content in different locations on individual pages. In this article I explain how to indicate where content is to appear on a page.

Collections are perhaps the trickiest concept to grasp in SkyBlueCanvas. A collection is a type of container made up of a variable number of items. Examples of collections include link lists, photo galleries, FAQs and Menus. They are literally collections of things or smaller units that appear within a page. The concept of a collection, allows you, the user to add, edit and delete individual items within a container without having to worry about building the container itself.

SkyBlueCanvas allows you to include additional, non-html media with a page in your site. These media include images and PDF, TAR, ZIP and DOC files. This article explains how to upload and manage media for use on your SkyBlueCanvas site.

SkyBlueCanvas is built first-and-foremost around the concept of pages as the base container. A page can contain text, pictures and other containers (also called collections). This article explains how to add, edit and organize pages in your SkyBlueCanvas site.

The SkyBlueCanvas Dashboard is the main control from which you work on your SkyBlueCanvas site. The Dashboard is very simple and intuitive. In this article I explain what each of the controls is and how to use them.

SkyBlueCanvas is very simple to install. You simple upload the package to your web server, set the file permissions and start adding text and pictures to your site. This article includes step-by-step instructions on how to install SkyBlueCanvas via FTP and SSH.

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 [...]

Plugin Method No. 1
SkyBlueCanvas has a very flexible yet simple plugin API. Actually, it has 2 plugin APIs for greater flexibility. The first API is almost identical to the API used by Wordpress and Joomla - both of which use the Observer design pattern.
Calling an Observer plugin in SkyBlueCanvas is simple. Create a file [...]

The code below is the actual code for the Events manager for SkyBlueCanvas. As you can see, the code is short and simple. Most of the heavy lifting is handled by the Manager superclass. The HTML code that follows the sample PHP code is the input form for editing Events items.

<?php

defined(’SKYBLUE’) or die(basename(__FILE__));

class events extends [...]