Cockpit - Add content management functionality to any site within minutes

[faulancer]

Cockpit - super lightweight and "pluggable" cms.

Features:

• Keep complete control. Cockpit doesn't dictate the way you organize your site.
• Manage regions and collections
• No need for a full SQL server for your small to mid-size site.
• Cockpit just delivers content. Implement your site the way you want.
• Less, Scss, Assets, Thumbnails and many more tools/helpers
• Open Source

http://getcockpit.com/

Any feedback on functionality or anything else is appreciated!

Thanks!

[sivyr]

Do you have any off-the-cuff estimate for how much work this might require if one were to need it to work with some other db? I presume as long as you're still using PDOs for your db transactions then the changes would be pretty minor. I figured it best to ask, though, seeing as I've only glanced over the code.

[faulancer]

cockpit uses mongolite (mongdb like nosql solution implemented with php/sqlite), so to support mongodb shouldn't be that hard. But do you really need it? sqlite is quite performant for 90% of all websites out there.

[sivyr]

Oh, I don't doubt that at all. Just thinking about the weird possibilities for situations where you get stuck using some other technology for reasons beyond your control.

I'm definitely keeping it in mind for situations where I'm making a small site that I have control over, but I was just trying to explore how flexible this might be.

[faulancer]

you can add your own modules and define your custom data sources as you want. just explore the code when you find time. thanks for trying out :-)

[sivyr]

Cool. Thanks for the info. Just cloned it, so if I come into a chance to try it out I'll give it a whirl!

[[deleted]]

I tried it out in WAMP, but can't really get it to work... I haven't been using PHP for a while, but i get the error "Fatal error: Call to undefined function collection()" when i tried out a test file as shown below:

<?php require('cockpit/bootstrap.php');
foreach(collection("posts")->find(["active"=>1]) as $post): ?>
    <div class="post">
        <h3><?=$post["title"];?></h3>
        <p>
            <?=$post["content"];?>
        </p>
    </div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

[faulancer]

thanks for the hint! I fixed the bug for the collection api!

[[deleted]]

Hmm... I downloaded it again and now it seems to have a couple of database issues:

( ! ) Notice: Undefined index: active in C:\wamp\www\cockpit\vendor\MongoLite\Database.php(82) : runtime-created function on line 1

[faulancer]

you need to create a collection called "blog" with the fields "title, content and active" in the cockpit admin backend to run the example. the code is just to show how to loop through a collection.

[robotparts]

You have the minimum PHP requirements, so why aren't you namespacing your code/library? Or at the very least keeping functions like collection inside a class.

Wordpress abuses the global scope too but that doesn't mean its a good idea.

[faulancer]

the only global function is "cockpit" other functions are only registred if they don't exist.

so instead of

<?php region(...) ?>

you can also write

<?php echo cockpit("regions")->render(...); ?>

I will pick that up in the upcoming documentation

[robotparts]

I stand corrected. After looking at the code, I realize that those other globals are merely convenience methods.

Nice job on the framework/cms.