Admin Management
For those of you who build sites that require a back-end administrative area, what do you commonly use for those back-end areas? In my experience and from talking with other developers, the admin areas are one of the most tedious and repetitive development tasks we encounter. I'm wondering what your experiences have been like in this area. Are there decent tools for automating the admin-building process, or do you build them by hand each time? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! -Justin Scott | GravityFree=20 Senior Programmer / Product Engineer 1960 Stickney Point Road, Second Floor Sarasota | FL | 34231 | 800.207.4431 941.927.7674 | f 941.923.5429 www.GravityFree.com ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220738 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Admin Management
Justin, Depending on your needs and hosting situation you can do this a number of different ways. For instance, we host all of our clients in-house and can build a single CMS that we can integrate multiple sites into. If you don't have that luxury the key concept is to ensure that your code is reusable. Build things in such a way that you can move from one server to another, change a couple of variables and things work. Frameworks help with this type of setup a lot. Once you develop a nice login system, you can move it around to other servers without a problem and you could make modifications as needed but at least the majority of the work is done. Same goes for all of your other modules. Building nice components also helps out a lot. You may want to recreate the interface to have the look and feel of another site, but your business logic can stay the same from site to site. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Justin D. Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Admin Management For those of you who build sites that require a back-end administrative area, what do you commonly use for those back-end areas? In my experience and from talking with other developers, the admin areas are one of the most tedious and repetitive development tasks we encounter. I'm wondering what your experiences have been like in this area. Are there decent tools for automating the admin-building process, or do you build them by hand each time? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! -Justin Scott | GravityFree=20 Senior Programmer / Product Engineer 1960 Stickney Point Road, Second Floor Sarasota | FL | 34231 | 800.207.4431 941.927.7674 | f 941.923.5429 www.GravityFree.com ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220743 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Admin Management
Over the past 3 years I've developed a CMS that is the core for every admin section that I build. It uses a module system that lets me add new sections easily. My naming conventions are consistent which allows me to find and replace whole portions of code from module to module. I'd be happy to let you take a look at it if you like. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Justin D. Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Admin Management For those of you who build sites that require a back-end administrative area, what do you commonly use for those back-end areas? In my experience and from talking with other developers, the admin areas are one of the most tedious and repetitive development tasks we encounter. I'm wondering what your experiences have been like in this area. Are there decent tools for automating the admin-building process, or do you build them by hand each time? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! -Justin Scott | GravityFree=20 Senior Programmer / Product Engineer 1960 Stickney Point Road, Second Floor Sarasota | FL | 34231 | 800.207.4431 941.927.7674 | f 941.923.5429 www.GravityFree.com ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220744 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Admin Management
Right... I've coded my admin section such that every object, anywhere on the page, has a style associated with it. I change some settings in the database and suddenly every color, font, path in the system is different. !//-- andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --//- -Original Message- From: Burns, John D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 1:36 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Admin Management Justin, Depending on your needs and hosting situation you can do this a number of different ways. For instance, we host all of our clients in-house and can build a single CMS that we can integrate multiple sites into. If you don't have that luxury the key concept is to ensure that your code is reusable. Build things in such a way that you can move from one server to another, change a couple of variables and things work. Frameworks help with this type of setup a lot. Once you develop a nice login system, you can move it around to other servers without a problem and you could make modifications as needed but at least the majority of the work is done. Same goes for all of your other modules. Building nice components also helps out a lot. You may want to recreate the interface to have the look and feel of another site, but your business logic can stay the same from site to site. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Justin D. Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Admin Management For those of you who build sites that require a back-end administrative area, what do you commonly use for those back-end areas? In my experience and from talking with other developers, the admin areas are one of the most tedious and repetitive development tasks we encounter. I'm wondering what your experiences have been like in this area. Are there decent tools for automating the admin-building process, or do you build them by hand each time? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! -Justin Scott | GravityFree=20 Senior Programmer / Product Engineer 1960 Stickney Point Road, Second Floor Sarasota | FL | 34231 | 800.207.4431 941.927.7674 | f 941.923.5429 www.GravityFree.com ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220750 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Admin Management
shameless_plug Since my admin sections tend to be made up of several list pages and several form pages, I made some custom tags to create those list tables and forms easily. Since I figured the tags might make others lives easier as well, I made them freely available. http://www.bryantwebconsulting.com/cftags/ I also use a similar tags for creating the menus that run that admin sections. /shameless_plug HTH, Steve Steve Bryant Bryant Web Consulting LLC http://www.BryantWebConsulting.com/ http://steve.coldfusionjournal.com/ For those of you who build sites that require a back-end administrative area, what do you commonly use for those back-end areas? In my experience and from talking with other developers, the admin areas are one of the most tedious and repetitive development tasks we encounter. I'm wondering what your experiences have been like in this area. Are there decent tools for automating the admin-building process, or do you build them by hand each time? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! -Justin Scott | GravityFree=20 Senior Programmer / Product Engineer 1960 Stickney Point Road, Second Floor Sarasota | FL | 34231 | 800.207.4431 941.927.7674 | f 941.923.5429 www.GravityFree.com ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220757 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
RE: Admin Management
I've seen people do the same with components. Especially for generic form entering and processing. Seems to save a good amount of time with formatting and such. John Burns Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer Wyle Laboratories, Inc. | Web Developer -Original Message- From: Steve Bryant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Admin Management shameless_plug Since my admin sections tend to be made up of several list pages and several form pages, I made some custom tags to create those list tables and forms easily. Since I figured the tags might make others lives easier as well, I made them freely available. http://www.bryantwebconsulting.com/cftags/ I also use a similar tags for creating the menus that run that admin sections. /shameless_plug HTH, Steve Steve Bryant Bryant Web Consulting LLC http://www.BryantWebConsulting.com/ http://steve.coldfusionjournal.com/ For those of you who build sites that require a back-end administrative area, what do you commonly use for those back-end areas? In my experience and from talking with other developers, the admin areas are one of the most tedious and repetitive development tasks we encounter. I'm wondering what your experiences have been like in this area. Are there decent tools for automating the admin-building process, or do you build them by hand each time? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks! -Justin Scott | GravityFree=20 Senior Programmer / Product Engineer 1960 Stickney Point Road, Second Floor Sarasota | FL | 34231 | 800.207.4431 941.927.7674 | f 941.923.5429 www.GravityFree.com ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220758 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
