Create a custom module in mojoportal

Create a custom module in mojoportal

 

Original article: http://techblog.strongeye.com/archive/2009/12/16/creating-a-mojoportal-module.aspx

 

Mojoportal is an open-source content management system, which we use in the strongeye website. It has extensive encapsulation of Asp.net network applications and is very friendly to developers.

Update: For many common website development tasks, you may not need to write additional code. Readers of this compass are intended to learn how to create new functional modules in mojoportal.

 

Developers need to create a new module in mojoportal, which is a 100% custom application and can be seamlessly embedded into mojoportal system.

First, you need to download the mojoportal source code and then build your own VS solution.

 

How to Create a mojoportal Module

 

 

Category Type	Steps Procedure	NotesNote:
Create UI Project    CreateUIEngineering	Create a new project [your project name]. UI Delete or rename the default. aspx file automatically generated by the project to ensure that the file is not copied to the website. Create a subfolder /[Your project name] /[Your project name]/controls Create a subfolder /Setup/	. Note: A web application is created instead of a web site. The content in the setup folder is beyond the scope of this article. For details, seeSee the developer documentation here for details
CreateBussinessEngineering	Create a class library project [Your project name]. Business
CreateDataLayer Engineering	Create a class library project [Your project name]. Data     Rename your data layer project [Your project name]. Data. MSSQL (or other databases you use)
For youWeb UIAdd reference to project	· Log4net · Mojoportal. Business · Mojoportal. Business. webhelpers · Mojoportal. features. UI · Mojoportal. net · Mojoportal. Web · Mojoportal. Web. Controls · Mojoportal. Web. Editor · Mojoportal. Web. Framework · [Yourproject]. Business
Is[Your project name]. BusinessAdd reference to project	· [Yourproject]. Data. MSSQL
Add. ResxFile for localization	Create a standard Asp.net folder app_globalresources. In this folder, add a new. resc file by selecting add-new item-Resources file. This file is named by the program name, which ensures the uniqueness of the name ..

 

Step 2:

Make your project mimicMojoportal. WebIn this way, you can compile

 

Category Category	Steps Procedure	NotesNote:
Update Web. config	Open the Web. config file in mojoportal. Web, Copy the entire <pages> part to the Web. config file of your project. UI.	<Pages> in <system. Web>, you can replace <pages> automatically generated in your project. .
CopyMaster pages	In the [your project name]. UI project, create the app_masterpages folder and copy the layout. Master File in WebStore. UI. (This is more suitable, because it is a subset of the entire master page and we need to develop it)   Note that it is not in mojoportal. Web.	This is the correct content placeholder for your ASPX page. When you develop your feature module

 

Step 3:Create your own modules

This module is.Ascx control, which inherits from sitemodulecontrol and creates a special instance entry point to your custom code. From this entry point, you may have many other pages, such as the custom ASPX page, which uses the master page.

 

These steps can be generated using codesmith.

 

Category	Procedure	Note:
Create a moduleAscx	Create a folder as follows: [your project name]. UI /[Project name]/ Right-click and create a new user control (. ascx), as shown below: [Project name] module. ascx
UseCodesmithTemplate, generateAscxFile	Open the codesmith manager. In Template explorer, open the codesmith4x folder, which is in mojoportal \ codesmith templates.   Find the template: Mp_UI-starter_ModuleControlGenerator.cst Right-click and select start generation" In the displayed window, enter: Author: [Your name] Businesslayernamespace: [yourproject]. Business Controlname: [yourmodulecontrolname] Featurename: [yourproject] Uinamespace: [yourproject]. UI Click Generate"	The generated results contain HTML and CS code. You need to separate them before performing related operations.
Paste to your module	Select // Author: code starting with [yourname] until the end . Paste this code into [yourmodule] module. ascx. CS Medium   Copy the remaining code to the module. ascx file.

 

Step 3:Add the compiled logic code to yourWebEngineering

 

This step will enable you to integrate your code with mojoportal when compiling correctly.

 

 

Category	Procedure	Description
Open your. UIProject Properties	Open your. UIProject Properties, openBuild EventsTab
Add the command line at compile time	Copy the following code to your post-build event command line and replace xxx with your project name and path name, Replace YYY with your project name   Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) bin \ yyy. UI. dll" $ (solutiondir) web \ bin \" Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) bin \ yyy. Business. dll" $ (solutiondir) web \ bin \" Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) bin \ yyy. Data. dll" $ (solutiondir) web \ bin \" Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) XXX \ *. ashx" $ (solutiondir) web \ XXX \" Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) XXX \ *. ascx" $ (solutiondir) web \ XXX \" Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) XXX \ *. aspx" $ (solutiondir) web \ XXX \" Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) XXX \ controls \ *. ascx" $ (solutiondir) web \ XXX \ controls \" Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) app_globalresources \ *. resx" "$ (solutiondir) web \ app_globalresources \" Xcopy/S/y "$ (projectdir) Setup \ *" $ (solutiondir) web \ setup"   Save and click "Edit post-build"
I   Installation Module	Add a special module to the background management.

 

For example: