ASP.NET MVC - Controller names in nested applications - asp.net-mvc-2

I have an MVC web app, and a nested admin application with areas with the same name:
/localhost/videos
/localhost/admin/videos
These are separate projects in the VS solution. The admin project is deployed into a folder off of the root app
Both Videos areas have a controller called VideosController. It appears that MVC is calling the root application's VideosController.Index instead of the admin site's VideosController.Index, but is (correctly) trying to return the admin/areas/videos/views/videos/index view.
I'd rather not have to go in and rename all of the admin controllers. Any suggestions?

What might help is specifying the default namespace.
typically something like this:
ControllerBuilder.Current.DefaultNamespaces.Add("MyProduct.Controllers");
So now, if MVC has two of something, it will have a default to fall back on. You will see a lot of the same issues if you start using Areas.

Related

"Portal" with multi-apps

I'm developing by Openui5 a portal. My portal have 2 apps. I I have organized the code in folders:
root
|
|____app1
|____app2
|
|____appN
In each app folder I have "master" folder, "detail" folder...etc..
What is the best way to organize the code?
Now I have an external structure of SplitView from which I call the sub-apps
(simply, when I select the app name from the list in the master column I replace the general master-detail pages - or the current app master-detail pages - with master-datail pages of the app selected)
Thi is the right way to develop a multi-app "portal"?
Definitely not the worst approach :)
You might also want to think about using UI5s Component concept. It allows for a better separation of apps by providing dedicated Router and EventBus for every component. It also isolates the sub-apps models from each other so that you can have models with same name in every component (handy for i18n/ResourceModel). A component does not even have to live within the same location.
The perfect match for what you plan to do but might be a little oversized though since placing different subviews (master/detail) from a component into the parent component can get a bit tricky.
GL
Chris

Where is the zend logic for deciding controller?

Ive inherited a project created using Zend.
I need to move the site to a new server, same platform but with a new base URL and domain.
Currently if I go to www.domain.com/index.php the first page of the site will be correctly pulled up. No other pages work.
On the old site, the url convention worked like this: www.domain.us/module/view
So for example the index page could be pulled up by going to www.domain.us/index/index
Im sure this is a simple issue of changing some path or setting (the include path, application path and application environment are dynamically generated and appear to be correct) but I have not been able to find anything.
Where does zend decide what controller to include? Is this url convention of using the subdomain to determine the controller standard and if not any hints as to where this logic might be?

Add a web page to a site built in Zend Framework

I am a sort-of newbie with MVC and Zend in particular. I have taken over a project from another team, site is built in Zend framework. There is an admin dashboard to add content, assets like images and media, a blog and a portal into Zen Cart for the store.
What is the easiest method of adding a new web page that has as its contents several things that are dynamic - items for sale, music to listen to, blog entries, news items from the database and a featured artist. All of this is stored in the MySQL db. I just do not know enough about MVC to make it work correctly.
I can create a page in the admin dashboard and use as the URL another "module" that already exists, but if I attempt to copy a module folder (for instance the folder called musiclive is almost exactly what I need except I need to add another column of elements...) the admin dashboard does not render. I know that I need to create some sort of "view" and fiddle with or create a controller, but not sure of the easiest method of doing this. I probably have to tell the admin dashboard I have added another "module" but it really is just the main or home page of the site - the other guys never built it because it was rich with details and I guess they put it off. I also probably have to change the files inside the module folder to reflect a different page.
Would love some help or pointers. Ask if you need more details on what the heck I am describing here...
Create a new controller in that same module instead of copying the whole module if the module is so similar to your requirements. And then extend already built resources like forms, models. I strongly recommend you to read about zend framework documentation, especially skeleton application tutorial. That will increase your knowledge as well as make you understand MVC and your current project.
http://framework.zend.com/learn/
One more thing there are 2 versions of zend framework and both are entirely different. You need to know the version in which the project is built. Zend framework 2 has following generic directory structure:
config/
autoload/
application.config.php
module
Application/
config/
src/
view
Module.php
SomeOtherModule/
...
public/
vendor/

Zend Framework 2 CMS file structure

I'm trying to build a simple content management system based on the Zend Framework 2. The problem is that I don't know how should the folders structure be like.
Until now I have to solutions in mind:
A. Building a general "Admin" module that has multiple controllers like Login Controller, Pages Controller, Posts Controller, each of this controller with his own actions.
B. Building an module for each component, like: Pages Module that has an adminController an an frontendController.
I'm sure that none of the above solution is the corect one, but couldn't find any solid solution or books to provide one. I've taken a look at gotCMS but noticed that this one i.e, saves all the data like layout views in the database, and this is not a solution.
Though it's a very first alpha solution, I work on ensemble which is what I'd rather call a content management framework.
Ensemble's admin runs on ZfcAdmin. So you can drop in a Blog module which just has a admin controller under ZfcAdmin's route. But you can also manage pages (like texts) with a navigational page structure. All content parts (text, blog, etc) are separate modules.
So I'd suggest you take a look at the sample application and you can check out our blog as well, which just hooks in into ensemble. I know currently the documentation is scarce, but if we reach kinda beta stability we will focus more on docs.
The main benefits for "your system B" is you can drop in modules when needed. They all provide their own config, controllers, models and views. It's easy to install them from a developers perspective (load in composer, enable in application config) and you can easily override any view with your own ones.
TL;DR: choose structure B and have a look at Ensemble.
/edit: seeing you comment on Sam's answer: yes you have to do that. In ensemble, you specify a route config for the frontend and create your admin routes as child routes of ZfcAdmin. For both the frontend as the backend you have separate controllers.
There is no right or wrong when it comes to building something new. Personally I'd go with B. I wouldn't even name the Controllers like you did (I'd break them down a lot more, like NewsAddController, NewsEditController, NewsDetailsController, etc...). Then I'd have an AdminModule that would simply display a new Layout with a specific "AdminNavigation". This AdminNavigation can be filled via the other Modules (i.e. NewsModule would inject it's own administrative Routes into the AdminNavigation via module.config.php)

How to design a flexible admin panel with Symfony 2 bundles?

I want to create an admin bundle, that somehow detects other bundles and tries to add them to the menu and to the same RBAC context.
Eg:
AdminBundle defines a route /admin/dashboard, that requires authentication and authorization. There you can see 3 items in the menu, eg: dashboard, config (some config stored in the db), and users (CRUD for users, found in the UserBundle)
Then someone adds a ProductBundle, which deals with CRUD for e-commerce products or something. Somehow, without modifying any code in AdminBundle, we have now a new item 'products', available in the menu in /admin/dashboard
Later on, the products CRUD is no longer needed, so we just delete the ProductBundle, and it automagically disappears from the admin dashboard menu.
How would you go about implementing something like this? Is there any native support for a plugin-like design like this in symfony 2?
I don't know about a full plugin solution but my approach would be:
There is one "master backend" call it MasterAdminBundle for the sake of conversation. This bundle contains a base.html.twig which just helps define the navigation bar of the Administration area and a {% block content %}. It also has some kind of MenuService which displays the menu. I'd have my other bundles register with this service an AdminMenu subclass by way of using the Tag System just as a Voter can register with the Security Context (see here).
In the base.html.twig I'd then likely use an Embedded Controller to render the menu.
Now with this sort of framework in place your other bundles can stay encapsulated by keeping their own admin routes and interfaces:
ProductController would now also have ProductAdminController where you can use a route prefix #Route("/admin") on the class definition. Any routes could then render templates from within the bundle since templates are held under the controller name. Acme\ProductBundle\Resources\views\ProductAdmin\edit_products.html.twig as long as they extend the base.html.twig from MasterAdminBundle and put their content into the content block.
For other things like a dashboard that you wanted to plug other bundles into I'd likely just keep going the same way, create a service in the MasterAdminBundle and use tags to load other classes into it with the data required.
Hope that makes sense, maybe others will have a better solution to this, I'm interested to hear also since this is something I'm trying to tackle at the moment also.