You might have noticed that the landing page on 3mension.com now has a brand new template, currently (still) telling you that we’re under construction. It was also my first attempt at adding jQuery functionality to the 3mension website, and I must say I’m quite impressed by the functionality and the ease of the integration. Given that jQuery is standard included in ImpressCMS, I plan to use it much more often in the future.
Contrary to my previous post, development of the impressCMS module is advancing steadily. I’m no seasoned iCMS developer, and neither am I a PHP guru, so it is taking quite some time to achieve functionality some might wrap together in a few hours. Most of the time, I’ve been experimenting with possible approaches to code organisation and finding my way in the iCMS API documentation.
I am happy to announce that Read more…
The first data model is ready, and I’ve already put it into SQL scripts to generate the database. It’s not that complex as of yet, all I want to store at the first iteration is the published file.
I installed the DAO class generator from the Xoops modules site. It takes an existing database table, and writes a data access Xoops class that should provide the needed functionality to use the database table in your module. It’s rather old (2004), but it seems to do the job just fine. I couldn’t find posts on the forums with warnings about Read more…