I'm creating a software marketplace web app, and looking for some insights and suggestions about the architecture.
I would like to be owner of the UI, so probably a headless approach is the way to go.
The basic requirements contains:
I need to have multiple external identity providers (custom sites, not like facebook or google)
I need to have at least three roles
simple users who can buy stuff
users who can upload things available for sale in the marketplace
administrators, who has to approve everything that is uploaded to the marketplace
Do modern ecommerce platforms allow limiting certain API-s based on custom user's roles? Or allow registering custom external identity providers?
If not, would it be a viable option to put the ecommerce API behind one of my own microservices and do RBAC in one of my on MS?
I generally would like to do most of the customizations of the ecommerce externally, in my own microservices, instead of within the ecommerce platform itself - so I'm not bound to any specific language or technology. I would like to host the site myself, in a containerized environment.
Additionally, any suggestions about a platform that would fit the use case mentioned above?
I would like to start trying new layouts and visuals on web pages that I manage. So far I am managing all my pages via scripts on my local machine and just upload static html files to a hosting machine; I am happy to set up almost any basic CMS or "static site manager".
What are some CMS (or a more basic platform for managing static html pages) that has built-in support for keeping track of multiple versions of a page and recording a user's flow from age to page?
Wordpress does thas job very well. Also you can use "Google Content Experiments" (aka "Google Analytics Experiments") for FREE, and just add a link to two different versions of your page. For A/B testing google experiments is a PERFECT tool.
How to set-up an A/B experiment read here:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1745216
For an iOS App I am looking for a BaaS provider. From a developers view StackMob is quite interesting, but I am missing a nice (web-)frontend to add and edit stored objects. The "Data Management" option in the Dashboard is unsuitable for non-technical people.
Is there a nice (free or paid) frontend for content management on StackMob?
I don't know of any prebuilt CMS frontend for StackMob. However, what most of our customers looking for something like that use is the HTML5 offering we have. That allows you to create a custom HTML5 app of the StackMob content that is completely your brand. It isn't as easy as the prebuilt option, but it does provide you with a lot of flexibility.
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Lets say my web server app is in drupal or wordpress, or even code igniter, how would one get about integrating a comment system? TSpecifically what I am trying to find out is if anyone was able to find a successful approach that would save some time as opposed to me going down the road of tying myself to a specific CMS content system.
Just throwing in some considerations here (by no means complete):
Are users also accessing your content (and its comment system) via the website?
If so, you'll want to have a comment interface that is available on the website too, and the easiest choice may be to use the comment system natively supplied by your CMS / through plugins.
If on the other hand your users will only be using the iOS app(s) for commenting (via a native interface) or you'll be heavily customizing the website anyway, using a comment system independent from your CMS might be an option.
How will the content be accessed from the app?
Via a simple web view? Or will the app download via an API provided by your CMS and display it in a native UI? If you are using an API provided by your CMS, you will have the same issue with your content as with your comments when moving CMSes.
You could add an intermediate layer that abstracts from the specific CMS API.
Or if you don't really plan on moving CMSes but want to prepare for that event nevertheless, you could simply implement a no-frills "version check" to ask the server for the CMS kind / version it is using, and if it doesn't match what your app expects, ask the users to update. This isn't the prettiest user experience, but it might be sufficient depending on what you're actually planning.
I would like my iPhone app to get dynamic content off the net. This content should be managed using a CMS. I would like to know in particular if I can setup Drupal or Joomla or other CMS as a backend for my iphone app to get the content.
Any advice on how this can be achieved would be helpful.
I am completely new to setting up/using CMS.
You can also take a look at StorageRoom, which is a CMS for Mobile Applications.
Disclaimer: I created this myself to scratch my own itch.
Wordpress with the JSON-API plugin is a great solution, especially if you need a web site as well.
You can find a good example here that uses Wordpress and Phonegap to get a basic app going.
If you can access the content in any serialized format (e.g. XML or JSON), it should be no problem to use any CMS as a "backend" for your application.
I'm checking out storageroom, and I'm searching for a similar answer, but I also found osmek to be a bit promising. I might use that one because of the menu templates .Osmek can provide responses in json and xml (and other formats that aren't useful in iphone dev like php, html, and templates)
Feed.Us is another option. I have a series of travel guides iphone apps and use Feed.Us to manage the businesses listed within the apps.
It creates a URL with XML that gets imported into the app.
This seems to be a very promising solution!
Apache Usergrid
I have briefly tried DreamFactory for some trial project but never got around to using it in production. Usergrid seems to be in the right direction in providing a full fledged solution (which can also work for modern web apps)
I'm very curious about Helios (helios.io) and will be trying it out shortly.
At least from the write-up on their site it looks very promising. Its open source, and in beta currently. They also have very easy heroku hosting support.
Helios is an open-source framework that provides essential backend
services for iOS apps, from data synchronization and push
notifications to in-app purchases and passbook integration.
I will update the answer again once I use this for some test project.
you can use any cms or framework to implement this. you need to make a jsonm api to communicate between app and backend server.
For php cms joomla, drupal and wordpress are best.
in frameworks you can use yii, cakephp, laravel or zend
hope this helps..
Also worth taking a look at Cloud CMS:
http://www.cloudcms.com
It's a cloud content management system for mobile and web applications, entirely oriented around JSON and having a fast, fully featured API. Your iOS application could easily grab things, render them, capture data, store it back into the CMS and more. Plus, it gives you a user interface you can drop in front of your business users so that they can create, edit and review things.
Note: I'm one of the developers. That said, worth checking out if for no other reason than for inspiration.
Depending on the data-complexity, perhaps willing a CMS into being a data-store or simple API is overkill when you can leverage file storage services like Google Drive/Apps to GET/POST spreadsheets or other documents in JSON, among other formats.
Is it possible to use Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, etc. as a server space?