Oh and one alternative could be to just use BoltWire's own top-menu (though you don't support drop-down yet, do you?) and sort of make it recognize the structure of some other menu, and update itself based on that. Sounds like code magic to me so I should probably shut up now.
On Jan 8, 1:02 pm, Erlend Sogge Heggen <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm curious, could anything be done to ease the integration of > BoltWiki into other systems? Being so lightweight as it is, and being > a wiki, I can see some developers would want to integrate BoltWire > with a more feature-strong CMS like Joomla or even Wordpress. This is > the use case I find myself in at the moment with my own website, but > currently stuck with DokuWiki. > > Now, to me, the end-user, a 'visual integration' sounds terribly > simple. I'm thinking, I copy all that code that makes up the top-menu > navigation in the CMS, then I just paste that into the theme of > BoltWire and voila! I don't know if that is possible in most cases, > and I doubt it. Another problem with this approach, even if it worked, > is that you'd have rinse and repeat every time you make a change to > your top-menu via the CMS. > > Some solutions already exist. Joomla! for instance, has > JFusion:http://www.jfusion.org(disclaimer: I was a project manager with this > project for a while, now I'm just an active user) > JFusion can pull another software in under the main CMS, making it > appear under the top-menu, even running a scan of sorts to sort out > any CSS complications. Still, this probably won't ever do for larger > sites, as the multiple calls is too much of a slowdown. > > Could there be any other way, that could be native to BoltWire and > won't require another third-party tool to make it work? You seem like > a clever guy so I figured I'd run this one past you ;) I'm thinking > something along the lines of going to BW admin panel, go to 'use third- > party app for top-nav', select between 'in place of boltwire top-nav' > or 'above boltwire top-nav) and there you go. Come to think of it, > it'd look much better if you could do the same thing with the footer.
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