Module LibFlourish – Flourish auto-loader for ProcessWire

[Adam Kiss]

Flourish for ProcessWire v0.9.0

ProcessWire wrapper around the great http://flourishlib.com'>unframework Flourish.

 

This module has the same version as the framework, so whenever update happens, your http://modules.processwire.com/modules/modules-manager/'>Modules Manager will pick up new version and update the framework to latest version (if you're into that!).

 

Happy hacking.

Note: You should checkout the short module's code to see what I consider to be the cleanest approach on how to include other libraries/frameworks into your PW websites.

Github: https://github.com/adamkiss/LibFlourish

Modules directory: http://modules.processwire.com/modules/lib-flourish/

Edited February 8, 2013 by adamkiss
Yeah yeah, it's BBCode that's used here, not Markdown

[alan]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing adamkiss

[alan]

I must have been living under a rock, I'd totally missed Soma's Modules Manager. Thanks Soma and thanks adamkiss for using it and linking to it.

[alan]

adamkiss I just installed Soma's Modules Manger and I see a couple of adamkiss Modules listed but not the Flourish Module. Is it me or is it not listed yet?

DOH! "This module is currently pending approval and will appear in the directory soon."

It's approved!

Edited February 9, 2013 by alanfluff

[Adam Kiss]

Alan, it was approved - just now.

[alan]

I see it now via Modules Manager! Thanks adamkiss!

[diogo]

Adam Alan, you really must living under a rock (and that counts also for discovering ST2 only now )

[alan]

diogo did you mean "Alan"? If so then yes, I fully accept that status has been sub-rock

[ryan]

Thanks for this module Adam!

ProcessWire wrapper around the great [unframework Flourish](http://flourishlib.com).

What most people don't know is that Adam doesn't just write in Markdown, but also speaks in Markdown. 

[diogo]

Sorry Alan and Adam

[alan]

Hey, diogo, you only had a typo, I missed ST2 and Modules Manager; I'm the bad guy here Besides I regard it as a significant compliment to be mixed up with Adam

[diogo]

I got the vowels right

[alan]

diogo; and those are some of the best vowels eva!

[Adam Kiss]

WHAT IS THIS SPAMFEST?!?!?!

What most people don't know is that Adam doesn't just write in Markdown, but also speaks in Markdown. 

Yeah, yeah… joker

[Pete]

Thanks Adam, this couldn't have come at a better time for something I'm working on.

Sometimes I feel like I've got a team of developers working in the same room as me, and other times like this I feel like you're reading my mind.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

 

*puts on tinfoil hat*

[niutech]

What's the purpose of adding Flourish to ProcessWire when you usually don't use most of its classes like ORM, Database, Filesystem or Session directly in templates?

[alan]

I don't think adding it it adds overhead and yet it's presence allows all the stuff Flourish can do; for me so far that's been only the tiniest little bit such as fuzzy date comparisons, but I really value knowing I can hand off such stuff to a professional grade library built for just this purpose rather than either having to code it myself (feels like reinventing the wheel plus I am not super hot on PHP) or bogging down the CMS with this sort of non-core CMS stuff.

When I first heard about it I was also "Why?" and then I actually used it and 'magically' a date comparison output rendered as 1 week later (with no effort from me other than core PHP date comparison) and I was hooked

[Pete]

I used it once to integrate some of the mail functions so when staff logged into a specific site they could also see the contents of a specific email inbox. This allowed them all to see the emails sent to the news@ address and copy and paste them into pages.

EDIT: for anyone else thinking down these lines, it would be easier to stick a FormBuilder form on your website now and handle news submissions from the public that way, but this was a looong time ago.

There are tonnes of possible uses, but yes I doubt you would use any of the functions where there is overlap with ProcessWire. Thing is though you only need to download the bits you need so it's not like you're throwing the whole library at a problem (just got a mental image of someone throwing encyclopaedia's at me)

[diogo]

Encyclopaedia? What is an encyclopaedia?

[Pete]

Encyclopaedia? What is an encyclopaedia?

For encycolpedia, see Wikipedia 0.1 alpha.

[diogo]

Is it that shelf with lots of books that look all the same in my parents house?

[DaveP]

<disclosure>I used to sell Encyclopaedia Britannica.</disclosure>

[fmgujju]

Flourish seems like is dead. Is there any similar unframework which I can use?

[alan]

Dead? Flourish seems to be flourishing here.

[fmgujju]

I went there already and looked at their roadmap and it says as below, we are in middle of the 2013 and still in beta that's why I said that.

The current issues include many of the remaining items, but not all tickets will be completed by the time the project becomes stable. At the current pace I expect the stable release to happen by late 2012.