History of LibertyPackage
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A new feature for ReleaseOne, the Liberty CMS package allows wiki, blogs, articles, and more to store their data in the same table, called tiki_content. This table holds the text data for all content - blogs, wiki, articles, etc. all in one column. This permits super fast searching, as well as simplified data storage/retrieval & text processing via a common base class. Here is a conceptual image that shows how the packages inter-relate:
A format plugin mechanism permits the text to be of varying syntax types (TikiWiki, HTML, BBCode, Wikipedia (aka MediaWiki), XML, text, etc...). Currently there are plugins for:
There is also a highly flexible mechanism for attaching *any* id driven mechanism to content - this is call TikiStorage. The storage types are handled completely through Liberty storage plugins. Tutorial - Liberty Plugins
Here is a diagram of how the Tables interface (note this diagram was prior to ReleaseOne and the names have changed in ReleaseTwo, however the ideas are largely still the same): | Liberty Package is the heart of bitweaver's content management system. Liberty provides fundamental functionality and utility to all content built on Liberty. Liberty provides both a universal database table that all Liberty derived content is stored in, as well as a collection of features all Liberty derived content can use. The Liberty database table stores common data such as content Title, Description, and page Data, as well as Creation and Modification dates and authors for all content. By holding all the text data for various content in one column, bitweaver achieves super fast searching, as well as simplified data storage/retrieval & text processing. But Liberty goes a step further than that. Liberty provides a number of useful enhancements to content. Liberty is a base class that various content (blogs, wiki pages, articles, map content, etc) is built on. Through this class all content has access to Liberty's various text parsers, its image attachment utilities, its commenting utility, and the storage of historical changes (all Liberty based content automatically has a history like wiki pages traditionally do!). Here is a conceptual image that shows how Liberty and other btiweaver packages inter-relate: Liberty ClassesThe vast majority of content created with bitweaver is derived from these classes.LibertyBaseLibertyBase is a foundation class for other Liberty classes and is not something generally used by those looking to build other packages on top of Liberty.LibertyContentLibertyContent is our basic content class, this provides access to storage and retrieval of basic universal content properties, like title, data, history, preferences, permissions, etc.LibertyAttachmentsDeprecated in R2.0.3 in favor of LibertyMimeLibertyMimeLibertyMime builds on LibertyContent, but adds handlers for enabling files to be attached to content. File attachments can be handled in different ways. FisheyePackage for example creates a one to one relationship between a single attachment and its LibertyContent object, a Photo. WikiPages on the other hand allow multiple attachments to be associated with its LibertyContent object, a Page.LibertyCommentsLibertyComments are derived from LibertyContent and provide comments functionality to any LibertyContent derived objects, which opt in to using comments.LibertyStructure@todo explainLibertySystem@todo explainLiberty Features
There is also a highly flexible mechanism for attaching *any* id driven mechanism to content - this is call TikiStorage. The storage types are handled completely through Liberty storage plugins. Tutorial - Liberty Plugins Schema DiagramHere is a diagram of how the Tables interface (note this diagram was prior to ReleaseOne and the names have changed in ReleaseTwo, however the ideas are largely still the same): |