Tag: Cascade

TinyMCE hack to shoehorn Paul Irish conditional statements into Cascade Server

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Here is some code to shoehorn Paul Irish’s conditional statements for Internet Explorer into Hannon Hill’s Cascade Server using PHP’s ob_start() function. This is a mashup from a few people on the Cascade help forum. Really, it’s a TinyMCE (Cascade’s WYSIWYG editor) hack to get conditional code, i.e. comments, around the HTML tag. I know it’s a very specific use case, but if you are trying to make your web site responsive using HTML5 Boilerplate in Cascade you’ll want this. (Irony: WordPress’s WYSIWYG editor won’t save the code correctly so I took a screen shot.)

Paul Irish Cascade hack

UPDATE

Hannon Hill added a set of special tags in version 7.4 of Cascade that allow code – even “illegal” code – to sit in a page unrendered. You’ll find it in their knowledge base under Code Sections. Below is a revised version of the Boilerplate conditional statements using the new “protect-top” tag.

protect-top-cascade

My Notes of the Cascade 7 Webinar

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My notes from the webinar about Cascade 7. Hannon Hill should have a video of this webinar on their site in a week or so.

June 5, 2012

Bradley Wagner

Themes

  1. Portability
  2. Performance
  3. End-user experience
  4. Interface/usability

Vitals

  1. Released May 8, 2012
  2. Over 65 downloads
  3. 2 Betas and client survey
  4. 400+ Votes satisfied
  5. Features for all stakeholders and user
    roles

DEMO: Content Portability

whole-site export that downloads .csse files

DEMO: Database export utility

everything expect binary files

DEMO: Site Clone/Copy

It keeps local references local to the copied site, and
external references (_common) stay external.

DEMO: Move/Rename Unpublish

Auto-unpublish when assets are moved/renamed. This
works on manual as well as expired assets (expiration folder
set).

DEMO: Modules

Easy way to add content e.g. twitter feed.

New >> Block >> Twitter Feed

Also swap out assets (blocks) on a page. with Inline
Regions

It dynamically updates the published page with new
Tweets!

DEMO: Spectate Connector

SAS marketing tool. Makes (empty) forms really easily.
Create connector in Cascade first, then use a new button on wysiwyg to drop
in form. Also, processes form data e.g. send email.

DEMO: Features – Caching (index
blocks)

Speeds up render on Cascade.

DEMO: Features – Improved History

Type ahead with action list when users scroll over
items.

DEMO: Features – Global Search

Type ahead added.

DEMO: Improved HTML5 Support

Embed video as HTML5. CAVEAT: Chrome doesn’t like
to render videos inline, but Safari will (Why?)

Also, improved Tidy – HTML5 nicer

My Questions:

Q: How does site copy handle locked files?

A: (They didn’t answer, but I think it will make a copy of the last saved version.)

Q: How does it hand internal asset references? One of
the problems we have when we copy now with 6.10.9 is
“hotlinking” images (or other assets).

A: It keeps local references local to the copied site,
and external references (_common) stay external.

Other Answers

Common assets (e.g. _common) need to exist before a site is copied.

Transport passwords are encrypted.

Un-Minimizing Attributes Written With PHP In TinyMCE

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I think this is a “feature” of HH implementation of TinyMCE, but I noticed that the editor would “correct” my attributes when I wrote them properly in an PHP echo statement.

echo "\n";

would save as

echo "\n";

which of course breaks PHP. No matter how I tried to trick it into using escaped quotes it always changed back to unescaped.

My solution was to use single quotes and concatenate the variables into the string:

echo ''."\n";

For your reference, here are the minimized attributes that will need this treatment:

HTML XHTML
compact compact=”compact”
checked checked=”checked”
declare declare=”declare”
readonly readonly=”readonly”
disabled disabled=”disabled”
selected selected=”selected”
defer defer=”defer”
ismap ismap=”ismap”
nohref nohref=”nohref”
noshade noshade=”noshade”
nowrap nowrap=”nowrap”
multiple multiple=”multiple”
noresize noresize=”noresize”

There should be a better way to do this. A lot of code is written the proper way in PHP and switching it is untenable.