Monday, March 9th, 2009
ModelAdmin: new opensource jQuery-based web-application system
Category: Showcase
This free code will let strong PHP+JS developers build really great web interfaces to be used by non-technical people.
You write object-oriented MVC code in PHP, and a jQuery-based application, along with the database schema, automatically builds around you. (This is similar to ruby on rails, with the exception that the database schema is derived from code, rather than the code inspecting the database schema.)
One of the developers of the work, Ingo Schommer, has a 25 minute video tutorial on this
You can also checkout the slideshare and code.
The SilverStripe CMS was featured on Ajaxian 24 months ago for starting a new era in terms of CMS usability, using scriptaculous and prototype. The system is being migrated to jQuery, to give more power to developers. ModelAdmin one of the first items across the line.
Recent facts
- ModelAdmin comes bundled with SilverStripe 2.3.0, released days ago
- SilverStripe and ModelAdmin were used as part of the 2008 Democratic Convention
- SilverStripe has had 130,000+ downloads in 2 years
- There is a 450 page book on how to use SilverStripe and ModelAdmin, in German. In bookstores as of last week.
To see the otherwise heavily scriptaculous+prototype SilverStripe interface, watch this.
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Looks awesome.
Yeah I’m looking forward to checking this out.