I am using a php dojo v1.4 project with mysql as backend.
The UI looks very basic.
I need to migrate this project to a standard bootstrap admin theme.
What are the steps I need to do?
If backend and general architecture of your application will remain the same, I'd suggest you to start building new UI from the scratch. When it finished, write missing functions, which were previously implemented with dojo using jquery (which comes with bootstrap) or whatever you like.
I assume, that you are not going to use dojo anymore.
If you are facing some specific difficulties, you'd better provide more details in your question.
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We are currently trying to include Dojo in our liferay 7 application and are running into major difficulties, as it seems the AMD loader is clashing with the AMD loader of Liferay, and its preventing Dojo's define and require from working properly.
If anyone as a solution to getting dojo into Liferay 7 I would appreciate any advice or tips you have for getting this to work.
When using dojo application together with Liferay I could suggest you:
Keep dojo loader requiring only AMD modules from dojo and not Liferay, so use dojo only for dojo and Liferay only for Liferay.
Same when building the application, you need to have two separate build processes, dojo uses it own tools called dojo/util and you won't be able to easily build a dojo app using another builder.
I need to redesign web site that has been done in Sitefinity 3.7. Current version is 6.3 ( I believe ).
I watched some tutorials about this CMS because I use it for the first time.
Can you tell me how much templating system differs in this old 3.7 version from current 6.3?
Is it possible to use Bootstrap 3?
We've been using Bootstrap in all of our recent Sitefinity implementations. I usually end up creating a vanilla, base page template off a .master page that includes references to the Bootstrap css and js, then create custom layout controls through Sitefinity's Visual Studio plugin, Thunder. Using the layouts you can easily create the markup needed for the grid layouts and components in Bootstrap so content editors can drag and drop them through the Sitefinity page edit interface. Editing the widget templates is another way to incorporate Bootstrap styling in the built in content modules.
Here is a project that has a Sitefinity Bootstrap theme, I believe the version of Bootstrap it uses is 2.31 though.
Update!
Jochem added Bootstrap version 3+ to the project, my fault for not seeing it, sorry Jochem! Direct link here
I want to integrate the Foundation (5) front-end framework with the Yii (1.1) PHP framework for developing a web application.
Since i am new to both of them and learning to use it as i move along with the development, I am unaware as to how will i be able to use both of them for the same project.
Logically speaking i understand that the Foundation 5 directory has to put into the Yii project directory structure. But i am not sure as to which directory to use in Yii project for that.
I tried researching on the web, but since i am new i am not able to understand which is the right way to go about achieving what i intent to.
Step by step instructions to do it would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
First you have to realize that Foundation is just a collection of html, css and javascript. So you use it like every other html, css javascript in Yii.
Then if you are learning do not create something yourself for now. Use something that somebody else has done: http://bootstrap3.pascal-brewing.de/ Here are instructions for using twitter bootstrap (another kind of Foundation) in Yii. With examples and everything. Start using it, be happy that you manage to do stuff right away... study the code when you get stuck, understand what happens in there.
http://yiifoundation.2amigos.us/
They have done a good work in packaging it as an extension for yii.
WHere can I get a XD version of dojo source like the one hosted on google? What I want to do is to host dojo source from my local CDN, and my custom dojo module in my web application. Is this a good practice? or I might as well just include the dojo source in my web app, and run the custom build?
Thanks,
You can build an xd version of dojo from the source code
Here are instructions on how to do it:
http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.7/quickstart/custom-builds.html
See the section on "doing xdomain builds"
In our organization (a large one), we do have a CDN version of dojo deployed on internal CDN mainly since some of our webapps are not allowed to access extranet (firewall issues).
For performance, though, a custom build gives biggest boost since it is customized to the modules you need/use - once the custom build is done, you only need to ship a single compressed js output file and a small number of supporting files
When doing your custom build, you can use the xdDojoPath and loader=xdomain if you wish to use cross domain dojo to load your optimized js - see http://osdir.com/ml/cometd-users/2011-08/msg00050.html for some notes on this
Also see related SO question: Dojo on a CDN vs own install
The good news is that with Dojo 1.7+ and the new loader, you don't have to do anything special for a cross domain build (good answer above from #Vijay Agrawal, but I think that reference guide link may need some updating for 1.7) Just write your code to the new AMD format, use asynch:true, run the build tools to create layers, and deploy them on any server. AMD makes use of callbacks and many of the tricks the old Dojo xd builder used to employ, but in a much simpler way.
To support older code, there is a legacy cross domain mode mentioned in the loader docs.
Lotus Notes 8.5.3 uses dojo 1.5.1. However I want to use dojo 1.6/1.7 library in my NSF database. How can I do it? I tried to use the technique suggested by Keith Strickland in his blog but no luck.
I need to include the dojo library in NSF database and not on server.
The reason I want to do this so as to use the advanced Dojo Mobile libraries (from dojo 1.6/1.7) in my XPages.
UPDATE: I even posted this question on XPages forum some time back but no replies.
The Domino 8.5.3 server uses Dojo 1.6.1 for XPages. You should see this if you view the HTML source of a test application.
As an example, I see this in one of my applications:
"/xsp/.ibmxspres/dojoroot-1.6.1/dojo/dojo.js"
If you are going to create apps using Dojo Mobile then take a look at the Extension Library and the latest Upgrade Pack 1 for Domino 8.5.3. Both includes XPages Mobile controls.
Per's correct that the Dojo plugin that is loaded by default is 1.6.1 (the ".1" is because it includes IBM-specific code and this means it differentiates it from anything a developer has added in).
The files in the js folder on the server / client are 1.5.1 and this is needed for iNotes.
You can change the Dojo version in the xsp.properties by setting xsp.client.script.dojo.version in Package Explorer. Incidentally UP1 offers a nice visual editor for the xsp.properties file.
However, currently if you change this setting you need to uncheck "Use runtime optimized javaScript and CSS resources" or it will still use the plugin. I noticed this too late for anything to be done before the Gold release.
If you add 1.7 files to the server and include the IBM folder from 1.5.1 it may work. AFAIK there's no way to get the IBM folder from the plugin code.
See my blog post for more details: http://www.intec.co.uk/domino-8-5-3-greater-power-over-dojo-thanks-ibm-for-your-work/