Pro Zend Framework Techniques: Build a Full CMS Project

Chapter 6. Managing Content

Over the course of this book, you have built the foundation for your CMS project. You started by creating the application framework and then added the core models and classes that are required to serve your CMS. Now you are ready to manage content.

Creating and Updating Content Pages

Before you get into coding, you need to define how the page editor interface is going to work. It is common for complex systems to use a dedicated administrator interface. This gives the developers more flexibility. For a straightforward project like this, I recommend the simpler approach of editing pages in place.

The actual content management will be quite simple since you already created the Model_Page and Model_ContentNode classes, which ...