On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:02 AM, 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.
So you are saying you want to include code from something else into
one of the zones in BoltWire? The probably won't be on the BoltWire
side, but on the source side. If you can find a way to call that code
from another source, you can easily insert it into BoltWire via a
custom function. In top zone put
[(getwordpress)]
Then in config.php put
function BOLTFgetwordpress($args, $zone='') {
// Code that returns specified content from wordpress...
}
If this isn't what you are thinking, I'm at a bit of a loss...
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Erlend Sogge Heggen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
Actually there is a dropdown plugin in the solutions.javascript
section. I use it on my site. Very nice and easy to use. But again the
trick is going to be accessing the info in the other system, not
getting it into BoltWire. It would take someone familiar with the
other system to know how to extract the appropriate information from
it.
Cheers,
Dan
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