Frontends

Developing applications

URL-friendly content translations

As of version 3.6.0, BEdita is distributed with an improved system to serve content translations in a URL-friendly way.

› This article applies to BEdita 3.6

Exception handling

Since 3.6.0 version BEdita ships with a redesigned exception handling system that gives better error

› This article applies to BEdita 3.6

Debug toolkit activation

Since BEdita 3.4 it is possibile to use the  CakePHP DebugKit: a debugging toolbar and enhanced debugging tools

› This article applies to BEdita 3.4 BEdita 3.6

ResponseHandler Component

This component is always attached to any controller and automatically takes care of rendering the right type of view

› This article applies to BEdita 3.6

JsonView and XmlView

Whenever you need to output json or xml content you can use those special views. Normally BEdita apps automatically use

› This article applies to BEdita 3.6

Frontends: a brief overview

A question that sooner or later you will ask yourself using BEdita is:

"Ok, nice software, now I have all my contents,

Embedding Images with beEmbedMedia

Embedding images is probably the most common use of the BeEmbedMedia Helper. You just have to pass the $object array

› This article applies to BEdita 3.2

Filtering section's objects

Usually the section's objects that BEdita loads automatically are what you need for your frontend app, but sometimes

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1 BEdita 3.2

Understand how the View is chosen

Understand how the view file is chosen is fundamental if you want mastering frontend customization. In the standard

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1 BEdita 3.2

Localize your frontend

To localize your frontend app you have to follow the steps below:

  1. Prepare you frontend editing the configurations

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1 BEdita 3.2

Create custom error 404 and error 500 pages

On your frontend applications you may want to have nice and useful error pages for your users (both human and

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1 BEdita 3.2

Routing rules in frontend applications

This article explains how to build routing rules for redirecting web requests

› This article applies to BEdita 3.2

Showing a list of tags

Get a tag cloud or tag list in your frontend application

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1 BEdita 3.2

Managing Users History

Manage easly users history in frontend applications (and in backend too)

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1 BEdita 3.2

Frontend Application Flow and callback methods

To help the frontend developers BEdita comes with a series of callback methods that allowing to filter and handling

› This article applies to BEdita 3.2

Get more or less information from your content

How to handle BEdita objects model bindings in frontend applications

› This article applies to BEdita 3.2 frontend

How to subscribe users to frontend apps

This article explains what you have to do to register users through a frontend application

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1

Template development - beFront helper

This article explains how to use BeFrontHelper in frontend template development

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1

Migrating frontends from BEdita 3.1 to 3.2

A brief guide to upgrade your frontends from 3.1

› This article applies to BEdita 3.2 Developer

Frontend Application Flow and callback methods

To help the frontend developers BEdita comes with a series of callback methods that allows to filter and handle data.

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1

Customizing Frontend Applications [part 3]: time for pagination

Paginating items in a frontend application

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1 BEdita 3.2

Customizing Frontend Applications [part 2]: how to load only selected content in a section

Improve speed performance by narrowing your requests to the API

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1

Customizing Frontend Applications [part 1]: divide objects by type in a section

With this post we start a series of documents that explain how customize your frontend application for all your needs.

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1

Frontend folder structure

A typical frontend application folder structure

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1

Embedding multimedia objects

An overview on the multimedia embedding feature, using the BeEmbedMedia Helper.

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1 Developer frontend

My first frontend

How to build a simple frontend in BEdita.

› This article applies to BEdita 3.1