[Seaside] Re: Dynamically placing components on a page
Jason Johnson
jbjohns at libsource.com
Wed Jul 18 14:18:40 UTC 2007
Petr wrote:
> I thought Pier might include exactly what I want, though using the
> whole Pier codebase is overkill for my needs, so I will just have a
> look how exactly I should implement this.
>
> Petr
I wouldn't be so fast to assume this. You don't want to get in a
situation where after working on it for 5 years you finally get to the
point where you have implemented everything Pier has today. As far as I
understand, Pier is a CMS made to be used at customer sites (i.e. not
just software made to show off seaside features), and therefor probably
has the things you will end up building.
What I personally do to create my site(s) is just use Pier and create
components that do the specific behavior I want. Most things I end up
doing fit really well with how Pier already works. E.g. on the band
site, there is a section that tells about all the band members. The
band is 5 people, and pretty static, but I still found it faster to just
make a really simple Pier component that has the fields and is set up so
that a new member can be added by saying "add->component->band member"
and then use the Pier settings button to fill in the fields. A kind of
DSL if you will. :)
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