After some time working with the CMS and some constructive feedback from you I have realized that there is a huge gap for new users to quickly get into the CMS, especially when it comes to using it in your own websites. The installation of the demosite is not the problem, but then it gets tricky to adapt it to another page.

I know I promised a quick start tutorial. In fact, I’ve started with a simple example that shows how you can connect a textfield of your website to the Flash CMS. But there are still too many questions that need to be answered so I have decided to programm something first: the Turtlebite Flash CMS ServiceCenter. With this, you can configurate and setup the CMS in a central place, and you dont’t have to edit a single PHP file anymore. You even don’t have to use phpMyAdmin or another MySQL tool to edit, delete or add CMS users in the tables! By using this, it will be the first step into the direction of my final goal: To make the installation and setup as painless and easy as possible.

So, here is a quick glance:

Configuration

On this page a systemcheck is performed, telling you if your server meets the requirements. You enter your database connection setup, hit ENTER and the corresponding php file (db_connect.php) will automatically be created for you. Also, you set the browser title, welcome text, background color settings etc., and it will create the php file for you (config.php).

CMS Users

Here you can edit, add or delete users of the Flash CMS. No need anymore to use phpMyAdmin or any other MySQL editor tool!

View the CMS Database

On this page you can view the content of the Flash CMS tables. This is not the place to edit anything, but you can view and, more important, delete records. You can only delete records from “turtlebite_index”. The records of “turtlebite_slot” and “turtlebite_content” will be removed accordingly. Remember the relationship: Every index record has any number of slots, and every slot has any number of content records. So, this is a good place to explore the tables to see if they contain anything, but also to cleanup and empty a CMS installation.

I’m still working on the ServiceCenter, I hope I finish soon so I can provide a much easier start for the Turtlebite Flash CMS, and also a simple long awaited quick start tutorial!

Stay tuned!

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