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uwascan

Member

Registered: September 4, 2014

Posts: 3

OOP Code base for BigTreeCms

Hi,
First I'd love to thank all those behind this wonderful CMS. The ideas and concepts are simply elegant.
I took a look a the code base and was surprised that such a wonderful tool does not employ OOP.
I love to suggest making the code base more OOP by basing it on a library like Laravel and the likes.
This will enhance the rate of adoption. This is the only reason why members of my team rejected
BigTreeCms as candidate to base a new client project on.

timbuckingham

Administrator

From: Baltimore, MD

Registered: April 2, 2012

Posts: 978

Re: OOP Code base for BigTreeCms

We're considering a more OOP focus for the BigTree 5.0 release's class setup, but that's a long ways off. Thanks for your kind words, sorry we didn't make the cut!

uwascan

Member

Registered: September 4, 2014

Posts: 3

Re: OOP Code base for BigTreeCms

Not to worry, I am sticking around. I will use BigTree for a personal project. Is there any guidance on how to convert existing templates to BigTree?

timbuckingham

Administrator

From: Baltimore, MD

Registered: April 2, 2012

Posts: 978

Re: OOP Code base for BigTreeCms

BigTree templates just use basic PHP echoing for resources, so there's no templating language involved. For example, if you have a text field called "page_header" in the template you draw it simply by <?=$page_header?>.