Posts tagged ColdBox

ContentBox: Editable Content Regions in CKEditor

Jan 2nd

Posted by existdissolve in ColdBox

4 comments

I recently created a module for ContentBox that allows you to embed “fiddles” from the excellent http://jsfiddle.net. If you’ve not used this site before, you really should 🙂

In developing this module, I had very specific goals, particularly for the user interface in the rich HTML content editor, namely CKEditor. My goals were simple:

  • Have toolbar icon for easy insert
  • Allow easy insert from context menu (right-click) within the content editor area
  • After content/config/whatever is inserted into content editor area, show something meaningful (other than ugly red iFrame box)
  • Allow user to act on inserted content–particularly, be able to edit all the properties of the content that were configured pre-insert

The first two are really easy. If you look at the source of the PasteBin module, you’ll see really quickly how to do those, so I’m not going to dwell on that. In this post, however, I do want to show how simple it is to make inserted content regions richly editable, treating them like complex data, rather than just simply strings.

NOTE: In the following, I include code-snippets, but often omit unimportant or redundant bits. Be sure to grab the entire source to see everything in its full context 🙂

Insert Content Region

Before we look at creating the editable More >

, , , ,

Subqueries with ColdBox CriteriaBuilder

Aug 20th

Posted by existdissolve in ColdBox

1 comment

Here is the code on GitHub, if you want it.

Over the last several months, I’ve been working heavily in a brand-new environment (to me): one that is built upon ColdBox and leverages all of the awesome goodies that ColdBox provides in the way of rapidly and easily developing ORM-driven applications. If you spend more than 3 minutes in a ColdBox ORM app, you’ll quickly come to rely upon–and LOVE–ColdBox’s CriteriaBuilder, which lets you easily build intensely complicated HIbernate criteria queries…without the nonsense of string concatenation.

The other day, however, I ran into a bit of a wall. Before I explain the issue, let me give a quick summary of the context.

In my app, I have a good number of concrete services that extend the uber-handy Virtual Entity Services. Since my app is driven largely by an AJAX frontend, there are lots of cases in which I not only want to return a JSON-representation of a result set, but also important meta-data about the result set (e.g., total record count for paging, etc.). Obviously, since I want that bundled into one single response, I have lots of methods that do something like so in one of my concrete services:

function getResults( event, rc, prc More >
, ,