ProcessWire: Open source CMS with a strong API

ProcessWire is a free PHP open source CMS. It has a great API that saves your time and makes any scale development full of fun.

The existence of ProcessWire is to improve the gap between the current content management environment and the needs of many designers, developers and customers in CMS.

In this short article, we will understand why ProcessWire is an ideal solution for your website or application needs.To understand why, we must first look at the current CMS environment, and then we will look at places and reasons suitable for ProcessWire.

The current CMS pattern does what are the problems with it

There are many excellent CMS products, but after using them, it is obvious that there is really lack of products that can complete all these things:

• Balance their complexity
• It has meaning from the beginning
• Good adaptation to the process of existing designer/developers
• Provide powerful and easy -to -use API
• Provide the same satisfactory experience to the designers, developers and end users

Some of the highly respected CMS are hindered by the structure, terms, and processes, which are related to the source of the blog.I think this is a bottleneck, not what many designers/developers (including myself) want.

The architecture of other products is also very good, but we need to invest too much in the system, so that when we understand, we will be considered "[insert the CMS name here] developer."

There are also some products of APIs that have introduced too many new types of labels. We found that we are in a template system that is trying to hide our underlying programming language -or worse -completely bypass it.PROCESSWIRE's point of view is that PHP is the most familiar and powerful template engine we can ask, so we hug it enthusiastically.

In addition, some products are very suitable for specific types of content (such as WordPress for blogs) so that people use them to websites far beyond the original intention of the software design.This should tell you that there are problems with the prospects of CMS products.

In the final analysis, I think CMS products have a large loophole in the way many of us work.As a full -time web designer/developer for more than 20 years, I have a palm to the terms, site structure, mark, etc.Every time we try a new CMS or understand how to use it, we should not feel that we are in a completely strange place.

In addition to the content management tool for end users/customers, CMS should also be a tool for designers/developers, making it easier for them to create their vision, rather than they have to adapt to their vision.It should enhance and authorize the process of designers/developers, not to order them.

When we hand over the key to the customer, we should feel relieved, which will provide them with easy -to -use and supporting experiences now and in the future.CMS should make customers as happy as designers and developers.This is the reason why the processwire exists, and the goal of the project is to bridge these gaps.

ProcessWire's Scope of Application

In the current state, ProcessWire is not built for specific needs like many CMS (such as WordPress for blogs).Instead, it is constructed to meet the needs of a good structure, height index, and standard websites.

Because ProcessWire has strong support for custom data types and fields, you may find that it is very suitable for searchable, related or cross -reference information.Examples include company directory, real estate list, media delivery engine, tourism list, map application, scientific directory, mobile application web services, product or service -available databases, and so on.This is not to say that it cannot work with completely different things, but the processwire has already had a good record of meeting these needs.

In general, if your site has a component that contains a height of search and easy -to -develop custom data and types, then Processwire will be an indispensable overall site solution.If you want to completely control your mark, then ProcessWire is also a perfect solution.