Data Pages Extension

The Data Pages extension to the Radiant CMS defines page types and tags that allow external (JSON-formatted) data to be bound to a template.

This means that pages can be created as normal in Radiant, but also be kept up-to-date with data from external applications and database exports. This allows a level of workflow automation to be added to the normal content management process.

Installation

First, make sure you have the JSON gem installed (gem install json).

From archive

1. Download the archive to your vendor/extensions directory.
2. Unarchive it (tar -xzvf data_pages.tgz).
3. No step 3!

From svn

Note: Subversion is available for svn:externals purposes only. All development is done using Mercurial. Please submit patches as diffs if you have any bugfixes.

Anyway...

svn checkout http://data-pages-extension.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ vendor/extensions/data_pages

Usage

• DataTemplating: Making a data template. Description of some tags.
• VirtualDataPages: How to make a template for a whole directory of data.
• DesignGoals: Why? How? What?
• TipsAndTricks: Some neat tricks. Email me or add comments if you have any you'd like to add.

See the README file for now. Also, the specs are very complete and full of examples.