Web Application Developers Guide Abstract This document describes how to develop web applications within the ExSite framework, how to port traditional web applications to the ExSite framework, and...

ExSite Manual - Menus This document describes the different techniques for managing site menus in the ExSite CMS. Contents * Dynamic Context-sensitive Menus * Horizontal Menu Bars using SimpleMenu...

Plug-ins are distributed and installed separately from the base ExSite system. There are two methods for installing plug-ins into a website. Method 1: Makefile The Makefile that is distributed with the...

Session Management gives the developer a tool for maintaining state or caching useful user-specific data across different page requests. It is an optional feature of ExSite Webware. Session data...

It is easy to run ExSite on a secure server. This document explains some of the setup issues you may need to understand. (It only covers configuration of ExSite; you will need to consult other documentation...

Because HTTP is a stateless protocol, the normal behaviour of websites is to forget everything about a visitor after a page has been served. If we are to remember things about a visitor on subsequent...

We are often asked, "Is ExSite secure? Can hackers break in?" It is normal for people to want to know that their website and data are secure from theft or vandalism, but the subject of security is ...

A kill switch is a fast and convenient way to turn a system off.  Web site kill switches serve to turn off all software processes that drive the website, so that site traffic no longer causes web applications...

The ExSite kernel consists of the libraries that perform the core services of ExSite. These services include: * interacting with database(s) * user authentication and security * web page generation...

Every web page can optionally declare its DOCTYPE using a special tag at the start of the document. This is not required, but without a DOCTYPE, the browser uses a special mode ("quirks" mode) whose...

This document describes how to quickly install ExSite Webware on a webserver in a conventional configuration. It takes only a few minutes. There are other ways to set up ExSite, but they will involve...

AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML, which has become a bit of a misnomer. The term is generally used to refer to the technique of loading some content after the main page is loaded, using...

You can place plain text files into your regular web page directory (such as a robots.txt file), and edit and manage the contents of these files using the Website Manager CMS tools. A few special configurations...

Captchas are small puzzles you have to perform to prove to a website that you are not an automated program. The word stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans...

Basic Debugging Standard perl debugging tools work with ExSite. In particular, we recommend using the build-in Perl debugger, and the Perl profiling tools, to help you solve difficult bugs. ExSite...

ExSite comes with a built-in Search framework that provides simple but flexible searching capabilities. It allows plug-ins to hook into the search system and provide their own content for searching....

Example 1 This first example is ExSite's equivalent of "Hello World". It inherits from BaseDCD, which allows us to skip over many of the basic DCD methods in our class. package Modules::HelloWorld;...

The following suggestions will produce ExSite DCDs that are interoperable, extensible, and which make fullest use of the ExSite framework. use Modules::BaseDCD The BaseDCD module provides important...

Most DCDs will have many additional methods and routines; the read(), write(), and ioctl() methods are simply the ones that ExSite uses to interface to the DCD. In some cases, you may need to split...

An ExSite Web Application has the usual features associated with web applications, most importantly 2-way interactivity with the web site user, in which data is taken in, and dynamic web pages generated...

This document describes how content is organized in the ExSite content management framework. This information is helpful for understanding how sites and pages are assembled and organized by ExSite Webware....

System Requirements ExSite has been installed and run successfully on Linux and OS X, but it should work on most Unix-y webserving environments. One of our developers even had it running under XP-Pro/IIS,...