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ericlbarnes / wardrobe

A Minimal Blog App
http://wardrobecms.com
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[Proposal] - Post key/value store #45

Closed ericlbarnes closed 1 year ago

ericlbarnes commented 11 years ago

Was thinking about this for a few weeks now but wanted to get some feedback.

My idea was some place in the post page add the ability for key value storage. So for example the first input would be an autocomplete that looks against existing keys then whatever value you want.

Let me see if I can give an example: 

[input key] [input value]
<button>Add Another</button>

Something like that just free form. I think this would allow tons of flexibility in adding all kinds of crazy stuff.

rtablada commented 11 years ago

Not sure I understand what leading to...

Within posts you would have this? Or would it be like a CMS "data-type"

ericlbarnes commented 11 years ago

I am thinking something sort of like simple YAML:

header_img: /path/to/img.png link: site.com

So that way you could in theory have custom fields for individual posts.

ericlbarnes commented 11 years ago

If that doesn't make sense t will create a mockup over the weekend to better explain. :smile:

rtablada commented 11 years ago

Hmmm... I think I get what you are saying now...

simondavies commented 11 years ago

To early to think but would be interesting to see your eg

Jeroen-G commented 11 years ago

WordPress has this too for quite a time too I think. Having this in Wardrobe could be awesome. You could use for example if you want to show extra information at specific posts of style them different.

ericlbarnes commented 11 years ago

Cool. Wasn't aware wp had this. But yes that is basically the idea. I knew Jekyll supported fields like this and I have had a few use cases.

Thanks, Eric Barnes

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WordPress http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields has this too for quite a time too I think. Having this in Wardrobe could be awesome. You could use for example if you want to show extra information at specific posts of style them different.

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rtablada commented 11 years ago

Are you thinking to encode json in a text area for storage of the key? Or have a HasMany relation to a key value store table? — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone

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Cool. Wasn't aware wp had this. But yes that is basically the idea. I knew Jekyll supported fields like this and I have had a few use cases. Thanks, Eric Barnes On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:40 PM, JeroenG notifications@github.com wrote: WordPress http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields has this too for quite a time too I think. Having this in Wardrobe could be awesome. You could use for example if you want to show extra information at specific posts of style them different. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ericbarnes/wardrobe/issues/45#issuecomment-20895656

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ericlbarnes commented 11 years ago

Haven't thought it all the way through. With a db backend end I think has many makes the most sense. I am open to suggestions though.

Thanks, Eric Barnes

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Are you thinking to encode json in a text area for storage of the key? Or have a HasMany relation to a key value store table? — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone

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Cool. Wasn't aware wp had this. But yes that is basically the idea. I knew Jekyll supported fields like this and I have had a few use cases. Thanks, Eric Barnes On Jul 12, 2013, at 2:40 PM, JeroenG notifications@github.com wrote: WordPress http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields has this too for quite a time too I think. Having this in Wardrobe could be awesome. You could use for example if you want to show extra information at specific posts of style them different. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub< https://github.com/ericbarnes/wardrobe/issues/45#issuecomment-20895656>

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Jeroen-G commented 11 years ago

I think that using a table in a db would make it easier to (scan for) use of a single key on multiple posts.

aleksblendwerk commented 11 years ago

Only just getting started with Wardrobe and taking it for a first spin but something along these lines to add additional metadata to a post would definitely be a good addition.

You could define the custom keys/fields in the theme's config.php and just display a text area in the post editor that looks like a YAML file with the keys and (for a start, empty) values maybe.

Either way, nice project, keep it going!

ryanscherler commented 10 years ago

This would be a great feature for adding to posts. I have been exploring Siteleaf.com as it uses a similar meta key/value for both their pages / posts as well as their settings pages which is a great feature for more global items.

A bit unrelated topic - but besides using static theme 'pages' - will there eventually be a way to edit pages(e.g. make them DB backed) much like posts in Wardrobe? I could see a key / value benefit here too.

ericlbarnes commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. 

Yes I still have this in the plans but I haven't been able to devote much time to the project lately.  Hoping things slow down for me after the holidays. 

I do have some ideas around pages and some more general changes but I can't give a time frame on when I might be able to get that implemented. 

— Eric Barnes

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Ryan Scherler notifications@github.com wrote:

This would be a great feature for adding to posts. I have been exploring Siteleaf.com as it uses a similar meta key/value for both their pages / posts as well as their settings pages which is a great feature for more global items.

A bit unrelated topic - but besides using static theme 'pages' - will there eventually be a way to edit pages(e.g. make them DB backed) much like posts in Wardrobe? I could see a key / value benefit here too.

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ryanscherler commented 10 years ago

I have been working on a side project to learn / get familiar with Laravel (coming from CodeIgniter). I have a basic app with pages that utilize templates and custom fields. It allows a user to define basic field types for a page (no default fields for a page other than title are required, the rest are custom and related to a template). Once I have this farther along I will let you know and maybe it could be of some use? Its a bit more than just adding key/value meta fields to a page, though in the end its really nice to just define what you need at the template level and go from there.