MagazineAssets Plugin - FlipBuilder integration with CraftCMS:

Background

I ran into a problem whereby I needed to incorporate a magazine into a CraftCMS website that had been generated using a neat bit of software by the name of 'FlipBuilder'. This would be a regular thing, so I was hoping I'd simply be able to drag and drop the outputted files into the templates folder and that it would magically work.

It didn't. So I wrote this plugin. The full story and more info can be found on my blog.

Install Instructions

Drag this plugin into your craft/plugins folder

Update your config/general.php file to look something like this:

Replace the contents of files/magazines/july-2018/files and files/magazines/july-2018/mag with the exported files from FlipBuilder. Feel free to update july-2018 to an issue name/number/date of your choice, just make sure that the folder inside craft/templates/magazines matches this name. Once the files/magazines/july-2018/files and files/magazines/july-2018/mag folders have files in them the .gitkeep files can be removed.

<?php
    return [
    	// etc.
        'environmentVariables' => [
            'internalAssetsPath' => CRAFT_BASE_PATH . "../files/",
        ]
    ];
?>

Notes

If you want to run the magazine from another place then move the location of the index.html template and update the Plugin registerSiteRoutes method to match the location.