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This is the first I've heard of it, but a quick glance at its website suggests that ProcessWire may be very promising. Do you have any additional thoughts on it
by rquantz 15y ago
This is the first I've heard of it, but a quick glance at its website suggests that ProcessWire may be very promising. Do you have any additional thoughts on it, having worked with it before?
- mortenjorck 15y agoWhat took a little while to click with me, and really hit it home for me once it did, is how simple ProcessWire's approach to content and data actually is. Its primary admin UI looks like it's for editing a straightforward site hierarchy, and it certainly can be, but the key is that its "pages" don't have to be web pages. A combination of some simple PHP and some quick setup in the admin lets you build all sorts of things. At its core, ProcessWire just gives you an extensible, hierarchical (and relational when you need it) model to build upon, and then gives you a really slick jQuery-style syntax by which to access it. You build templates in PHP, but the selector syntax is so easy to work with, it brings to mind WordPress theming. One of its founding principles is that it is markup-agnostic. I'm using it right now for an XML source that feeds a site (and possibly later a mobile site, an app, or anything), with the XML being a ProcessWire template.
- markoheijnen 15y agoJust my 2 cents about XML. Don't use it as a feed for data. It's better to use JSON. Specially for mobile applications.
- mortenjorck 15y agoAt least with ProcessWire, it would be pretty straightforward to re-template it to output JSON instead of XML (or keep both).
- markoheijnen 15y agoIf you play it that way: At least WordPress is user friendly ;)