Multisites v2 design

[Guite]

Gabriel (@gfr) and me are going to do a new major version of Multisites.

• based on ModuleStudio
• based on Zikula 1.3 (going to be regenerated for 1.4 later of course)
• considering a review of what can and should be improved
• including existing GitHub issues

Today I created a first model just reflecting the current state of the module plus some minor additions, like some custom actions and ip address checks and an index for the site table. I think that the model will be subject of several iterations when we incorporate open tickets and wishes into the concept.

Controller:

Model:

cc: @Drak @rallek @cmfcmf

[cmfcmf]

I've never used multisites, so I can't really comment on it. But from what I understand, this seems it be a valuable update and a future prove concept. 👍

[shefik]

@Guite What checks occur via IP address that you mentioned? Would such checks restrict functionality if a site is on server cluster and load balancer that may have varied IP addresses?

[Guite]

@shefik the validator is contained in Symfony: http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/constraints/Ip.html

[shefik]

@Guite Okay, so this is only just validating that the input is a real IP Address?

[Guite]

Yes.

[Guite]

Here is an updated model version:

Most important changes include:

• Restructured based on an early development version of MOST 0.7.0 (therefore only one diagram remains); thus entities have their own actions now.
• Added project table for grouping sites by client or topic
• Added a second var container containing only security-related settings
• Added custom action for exporting a site into a new template
• Added new field for a whitelist of languages per site (see Language whitelist per page #17)
• Added settings container for disabling unrequired generator features (like rss and atom feeds or content types and blocks)
• Added a new table for template parameters (variable information to be defined for each site)
• Added two parameter fields to the site table (csv upload, array for manual form-based input)
• Added custom action for reapplying templates to all assigned sites
• Added cascade and edit settings to all new relationships

[Guite]

Todo: add upload fields on the site entity for uploading a custom logo as well as a favicon.

[cmfcmf]

Probably refs zikula/core#966.

[Guite]

Next update reflecting the most current design iteration:

Recent changes:

• set version to 2.0.0
• added two new upload fields to the site entity for storing logo and favicon images
• changed folders field type in the template entity from string to array
• added another array field named exludedTables to the template entity to allow skipping certain tables when reassigning a template to all sites based on it
• removed unrequired access table

[Guite]

Design iterations are completed for v2, therefore this ticket can be closed.

[Guite]

Minor model update:

• removed one obsolete modvar
• replaced parameters table by an array field

[matheo]

Nice job 👍

[Guite]

Another model iteration:

• Added some actions
• Removed activationDate field in the site table (since we have createdDate provided by the standard fields extension already)