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A blog in Midgard Create

This is an example of how to create a blog system powered by the Midgard Create web editing tool. This example follows the principles of literate programming, meaning that it is not only a human-readable document but can also be used to construct the full running blog system using the code examples inside this file.

As this blog system is an example application, we will call it net_example_blog. This will be used as a namespace in PHP classes and global variables.

Our blog post

To be able to store and display blog posts we have to first define a persistent storage for them. Midgard MVC itself is not in way tied to any storage solution, but in this case we will use the Midgard2 content repository for our data persistence needs. Midgard2 is an object-oriented content store that can be accessed from various programming languages including PHP, Python and Vala.

Some exercises from the Falsy Values workshops.

The good parts:

HTTP server and client in same script
Express cookies example
Express routing example
Express error handling
Express middlewares example
Simple HTTP proxy

Some examples of Midgard2 GIR usage

This is a simple example of the MQTT protocol with Node.js. The client code has also been tested with a combination of C++ servers and clients.

This is an example of using a Collection view with Backbone.

	import network, util
	from util import exceptions
	from gettext import lgettext as _

	PROTOCOL_INFO = {
	"name": "Qaiku",
	"version": "1.0",

	"config": [
	"private:password",

	<?php
	if (count($argv) != 2)
	{
	die("Usage: php quick_init.php midgardconffile\n");
	}

	if (!extension_loaded('midgard2'))
	{
	die("Midgard2 is not installed in your PHP environment.\n");
	}

	<?php
	// Open Midgard connection
	$config = new midgard_config();
	$config->read_file_at_path(ini_get('midgard.configuration_file'));

	// Do stuff when we get a DB connection
	midgard_connection::get_instance()->connect('connected', function($connection) {
	echo "Connected, Midgard version " . mgd_version() . "\n";
	});

	if (typeof jQuery == 'undefined') {
	var jQ = document.createElement('script');
	jQ.type = 'text/javascript';
	jQ.onload=loadDeps;
	jQ.src = 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js';
	document.body.appendChild(jQ);
	} else {
	loadDeps();
	}
	function loadDeps() {

	config.json
	reading-image.png