quickapps/cms

✨ New Backend Theme

• A new and gorgeous backend theme has been introduced based on [AdminLTE 2](https://almsaeedstudio.com/). Fully responsive and multiple colors schema available.
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• <img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1129842/7554983/886d4a46-f73c-11e4-90ce-6343f3c736e8.gif" />
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📦 What is AOP?

• > - Manuel Lemos
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• <img src="https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1129842/7449536/d1b74ad4-f238-11e4-9c63-9b7f89410e44.jpg" />
• </p>
• Check GO! AOP documentation for further details: http://go.aopphp.com/docs/introduction/

📦 Content Types Permissions

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📦 Customized Content Extension

• ``` php
• define('CONTENT_EXTENSION', '/');
• ```
• Now every content's URL will look as: `/article/my-first-article/`

📦 Improved Field API

• In the other hand, both EAV and Field API has been optimized for reducing the number SQl queries required to render each Field ("virtual columns" for EAV).

📦 CakePHP 3.0

• QuickAppsCMS has been rebuilt from scratch based on the brand new CakePHP v3.0. We
• have taken advantage of the new CakePHP features such as ORM, Event System, etc. to
• incorporate them into QuickAppsCMS.
• The new version of QuickAppsCMS has been designed to work as a standalone
• application that can be installed using Composer. However you can "extend" its
• functionalities by creating and installing new plugins or themes. QuickAppsCMS
• introduces almost zero conventions in addition to CakePHP's, so creating new plugins
• for both platforms is exactly the same.

📦 Composer Compliant

• QuickAppCMS 2.0 is fully compliant with Composer's packages and CakePHP's community
• plugins. Plugins can be installed using an interactive Web UI. Although package
• dependencies are fully supported, QuickAppsCMS will not install those dependencies
• as Composer does.

📦 Plugins & Themes

• As introduced in CakePHP 3.0, plugins and themes are now the same. Nonetheless, in
• QuickAppsCMS any plugin suffixed with the `Theme` word will be automatically
• considered a QuickAppsCMS Theme.
• The old `<PluginName>.yaml` configuration file has been replaced by `composer.json`.
• Now building plugins/themes either for QuickAppsCMS or CakePHP is exactly the same.
• Check Composer installation instructions available at [this link](https://github.com/quickapps/website#installation).

📦 jQuery & Bootstrap

• Twitter Bootstrap & jQuery libraries are now included, by default, on every
• QuickAppsCMS installation. Furthermore, all the templates or any HTML code generated
• automatically by QuickAppsCMS will follow Bootstrap conventions (CSS class names,
• Grid system, etc). Likewise, every JS script automatically generated by QuickAppsCMS
• is created with jQuery in mind.
• Two new plugins have been included (`Bootstrap` & `jQuery`) for dealing with such
• libraries, providing a few generic helpers to assist you.

✨ New Hook System

• A more flexible and consistent Hook System has been built on CakePHP's Events
• System. Triggering or creating events has never been easier. Attach the new
• `HookAwareTrait` trait to your classes and your are ready to go:
• ``` php
• $this->trigger('MyEventName', $arg1, $arg2, ..., $argn);
• ```
• This trait is by default attached to Controller, Helper and View classes. Check the [documentation](http://api.quickappscms.org/book/developers/events-system.html) for more details.

📦 Shortcodes

• Shortcodes system has been rebuilt as well, changing the way they work and how they look:
• ```
• {my_shortcode color=red} Content of my hook tag {/my_shortcode}
• ```
• Shortcodes are now globally parsed before content is presented to users, this allows you to use shortcodes absolutely anywhere you wish; in yout contents, in your template files, etc.
• Check the [Shortcode API](http://api.quickappscms.org/book/developers/shortcode-api.html).

📦 EAV & Field APIs

• QuickAppsCMS's flexibility comes mainly from its Field API (a.k.a. Drupal's CCK),
• which allows to create and define virtually any content type. Although this API
• worked just fine in early version of QuickAppsCMS, its complexity was its major
• weakness; creating new Fields was a complex task.
• In v2.0 a new `EAV API` has been introduced, which provides a generic implementation
• for EAV data model. The Field API has been rebuilt on top of this new API in
• combination with the new Hook System. Furthermore, several utility classes has been
• introduced to assist you when creating new Fields.
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📦 User Notification API

• A new Notification API has been introduced in QuickAppsCMS 2.0 to better deal with
• mailing users. This API provides a very simple mechanism for defining and sending
• email messages to any registered user in the system, for example:
• ``` php
• $user = $this->Users->get($id);
• $result = NotificationManager::welcome($user)->send();
• ```
• Check [Notification API documentation](http://api.quickappscms.org/book/developers/notifications-api.html).

📦 Search API

• The new Search API allows entities to be search-able through an auto-generated index
• of words. It also provides searching methods for filtering Entities using human-
• readble criteria, for instance:
• ``` php
• $criteria = '"this phrase" OR -"not this one" AND this';
• $nodes = $this->Nodes->search($criteria);
• ```

📦 Search Operators

• An Operator is a search-criteria command which allows you to perform very specific
• filter conditions in your SQL queries. An operator is composed of two parts: a name
• and its argument, both parts must be separated using the `:` symbol, e.g.:
• ```
• // operator name is: "created"
• // operator argument is: "2013..2016"
• created:2013..2016
• ```
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📦 Block & Region APIs

• The Block API has been rebuilt. It is now more flexible and robust, allowing to
• create `Widget` blocks in a simple way. Also, the way blocks are rendered in your
• themes has changed:
• ``` php
• echo $this->region('left-sidebar');
• ```
• The new Region API allows to do nifty things such as combine two or more regions, or
• limiting the number of blocks it can hold:
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📦 What's Next

• This beta release will be the first of two Beta releases, meaning there will be one
• more Beta version and at least one RC version before releasing the final and stable
• version of QuickAppsCMS v2.0. Although most of the initially planned features have
• already been implemented in this release, the feedback received will help us
• determine if more features will be included in the future.
• Future releases will focus on:
• API stabilization
• Bug fixes
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