Data Integration about chopchop HOT 9 CLOSED

It would be nice to have a global config to be able to pass through things like the site name, url, client contact info. This information could appear in the header of the index.

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Our current thinking, to expand on this, is the use yaml files to store data such as product titles, blog posts, prices, image paths. I suggest this is in a folder called data in the root of chopchop. Inside that a file for each data. e.g. blog-title.yml.

Then with functions we can retrieve them such as:

getData('blog-title');
printData('blog-title'); // prints out

This is probably enough for now. Later we can expand if we feel necessary.

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Maybe we could target things inside the yaml files too. For example we could have a global.yaml file in our data and then do:

getData('global', 'site-name');

This would retrieve the site name inside the global yml file. If we just did the following it would retrieve a random entry:

getData('global');

Same would apply to blog titles, we could do either of the following:

getData('blog-title');
getData('blog-title', 5); // return 5th item

Obviously this is all open to ideas. Just throwing thoughts after speaking to @gazjoy and @ejrowley over the last few months.

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global.yml

• site-name
• tagline
• tel
• email

product-title.yml
blog-title.yml
product-title.yml
price.yml
author.yml
blog-cateories.yml
product-catergories.yml
color.yml
size.yml
number.yml

function:
name of file
specific item (by site-name or 3)
random / in order

<p class="logo"><?php printData('global', 'site-name'); ?></p>
<p><?php printData('price'); ?></h2>
<h2><?php printData('blog-title', 2); ?></h2>
<h2><?php echo getData('blog-title', 2); ?></h2>

<?php for($i=0;$i<5;$i++) : ?>
<h2><?php printData('blog-title', $i); ?></h2>
<?php endfor; ?>

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@jakecobley reckon we can get some basic integration this month? Nothing fancy, we can start small.

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@daveredfern yeah defiantly. Aiming to get a ruff implementation shortly. Will be mapping everything out Thursday so will likely give you a shout then.

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@jakecobley great!

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PR #122

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// Grabs the site name from the site name variable in the global.yml file in the data directory.
<?php printData('global', 'site-name'); ?>

// Grabs a random entry from the title object within the blog object in the blog.yml file in the data directory.
<?php printData('blog', 'title'); ?>

// Grabs the first (starts from 0) title from the title object within the blog object in the blog.yml file in the data directory.
<?php printData('blog', 'title' 0); ?>

// Grabs the second (starts from 0) author from the author object within the blog object in the blog.yml file in the data directory.
<?php printData('blog', 'author', 1); ?>

// Grabs the second (starts from 0) blog title from the blog-title object in the blog-titles.yml file in the data directory.
<?php printData('blog-title', 1); ?>

// Grabs a random entry from the blog-titles object in the blog-titles.yml file in the data directory.
<?php printData('blog-title'); ?>

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