Albums CMS Design Principles

AJAX

When adding a new album-based CMS section, the following files may need to be updated with the new content type:

/_classes/content/cache_class.php
/_classes/content/resort_class.php

Obviously if a file includes the cache_class then the new content type will be available to that file.

PHP Classes

Classes derived from album_class and album_xpost_class that don’t have the same columns as those tables should set the db_field property value for those fields to FALSE in their class constructors.

function __construct() {
	parent::__construct();
	/* any child class property initialization would go here */
	$this->layout->db_field = false;
}

Listings

JavaScript/JQuery handlers

The JavaScript in this section is deprecated and needs to be updated.

LITTLED.Gallery.bindAlbumListingsHandlers()

The routine above doesn’t handle content refreshes. The code below adds that, along with some filtering utilities. This can be rolled up into a routine available through the LITTLED.CMS library.

LITTLED.init({ setSortables: LITTLED.Gallery.bindAlbumListingsHandlers });
LITTLED.Gallery.keywordAutocomplete();
LITTLED.setSortables();
$('.datepicker').datepicker();
$('.update-cache').click(LITTLED.updateCache);

See Also

• Album/Gallery Listings
• albums cms specs & principles