[opencms-dev] folders/files starting with dot in 9.0.1 ?

[Christoph Kukulies]

During browsing through the 9.0.1 demos I found a couple of
folders/files in the VFS starting with "." (dot), e.g. .content, .config.
What's the magic behind this? Reminds of unix files starting with .
designating a hidden file.

[Schliemann, Kai]

Hi Chris,
have a look at the documentation PDF shipped with OpenCms. It is a great document which explains a lot about the new page structure since OpenCms 8 and gives an overview of usable cms:xx tags for developers (and much more).
If you prefer to read it in German, I may suggest the translation of the documentation shipped with OpenCms 8.5.1: http://www.comundus.com/export/sites/default/downloads/opencms/OpenCms_8_5_1_Handbuch_v1_2_DEUTSCH.pdf

HTH
Best regards
Kai


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During browsing through the 9.0.1 demos I found a couple of folders/files in the VFS starting with "." (dot), e.g. .content, .config.
What's the magic behind this? Reminds of unix files starting with .
designating a hidden file.

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[Christoph Kukulies]

Post by Schliemann, Kai
Hi Chris,
have a look at the documentation PDF shipped with OpenCms. It is a great document which explains a lot about the new page structure since OpenCms 8 and gives an overview of usable cms:xx tags for developers (and much more).
If you prefer to read it in German, I may suggest the translation of the documentation shipped with OpenCms 8.5.1: http://www.comundus.com/export/sites/default/downloads/opencms/OpenCms_8_5_1_Handbuch_v1_2_DEUTSCH.pdf
HTH
Best regards
Kai
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During browsing through the 9.0.1 demos I found a couple of folders/files in the VFS starting with "." (dot), e.g. .content, .config.
What's the magic behind this? Reminds of unix files starting with .
designating a hidden file.

Hi Kai,

great to know that OpenCMS now comes with a documentation PDF. Indeed I
overlooked it when unpacking. I had expected to find the usual combo
of history.txt install.html license.txt :) and went ahead deploying
the .war file.

Although the new features of OpenCMS look fine and appealing, the
document does not answer my question about the files starting with ".".

I'm not sure whether I will use the new features to build a web site.
Looks like the people at Alkacon put much effort into giving OpenCMS
more features of
modern CMS systems to build websites, and for quite a while OpenCMS
seemed to lag a bit behind what other CMSs were offering (Wordpress,
Contao, Joomla),
OTOH I'm glad to have sticked with OpenCMS all the time, alone looking
at the security leaks that all these PHP based CMSs had to suffer from
during the past.

At present I construct a web site e.g. using YAML, but the CSS into my
frontend modules, and design the JSPs to inject the columns, navigation
etc. into the pages.

But I'm getting carried away.

Let's come back to the question of the meaning of the dot-files. :)

[Tobias Karrer]

Hi Christoph,

at the best have a look at the documentation together with the demo
templates or the developer demo.

/.config/ is for configurations (see page 19, 45, 79ff)
/.content/ is where the xml content is stored using ADE ("sitemap
content folder", see page 45, 79ff)
/.new/ holds the page model (see page 19, 45)
/.detailContainers/ is used for specific containers on detail pages (see
page 66+67)

//.categories// is the category repository in your site, if you don't
want to or can't use /system/categories//
.galleries/ may be your parent folder for image-/downloadgalleries (see
page 29ff), but could be any other folder of according type

(pagenumbers of OpenCms 9.0.1 Documentation)

Best,
Tobias

Re: folders/files starting with dot in 9.0.1 ?
Hi Kai,
great to know that OpenCMS now comes with a documentation PDF. Indeed I
overlooked it when unpacking. I had expected to find the usual combo
of history.txt install.html license.txt :) and went ahead deploying
the .war file.
Although the new features of OpenCMS look fine and appealing, the
document does not answer my question about the files starting with ".".
I'm not sure whether I will use the new features to build a web site.
Looks like the people at Alkacon put much effort into giving OpenCMS
more features of
modern CMS systems to build websites, and for quite a while OpenCMS
seemed to lag a bit behind what other CMSs were offering (Wordpress,
Contao, Joomla),
OTOH I'm glad to have sticked with OpenCMS all the time, alone looking
at the security leaks that all these PHP based CMSs had to suffer from
during the past.
At present I construct a web site e.g. using YAML, but the CSS into my
frontend modules, and design the JSPs to inject the columns, navigation
etc. into the pages.
But I'm getting carried away.
Let's come back to the question of the meaning of the dot-files. :)

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[Alexander Kandzior]

Christoph,



the dot was chosen because in the sort order of the traditional workplace,
folders starting with a dot will usually be on top.



And since the dot folders are "system folders" - they required in order for
the system to work properly - it seemed natural to use the "." like Unix
does.



Kind Regards,

Alex.

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Hi Tobias,

thanks for doing the work of looking the respective files up for me in the
documentattion.
Now I have the meaning what the files/folders do, but my original question
was,
why it was chosen to let them start with a ".".

Is there some special mechanism behind this, having a file/folder start with
a dot in the VFS?


Am 22.08.2014 um 11:13 schrieb Tobias Karrer:

Hi Christoph,

at the best have a look at the documentation together with the demo
templates or the developer demo.

.config is for configurations (see page 19, 45, 79ff)
.content is where the xml content is stored using ADE ("sitemap content
folder", see page 45, 79ff)
.new holds the page model (see page 19, 45)
.detailContainers is used for specific containers on detail pages (see page
66+67)

.categories is the category repository in your site, if you don't want to or
can't use /system/categories/
.galleries may be your parent folder for image-/downloadgalleries (see page
29ff), but could be any other folder of according type

(pagenumbers of OpenCms 9.0.1 Documentation)

Best,
Tobias

[Christoph Kukulies]

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