tunnelcms

Workings

The woinrkg process of Tunnel CMS is as follows

• Init.php: It boostraps all required files.
  • Loads $config.php which initializes $site (site wide config)
  • Initializes $request parameter
  • Run start hook
  • If cache exists and valid, serve cache.
    • Check chache: whether cache file and metadata for cache exists.
    • Check content and template dir hash, compare present hash and the one in the cache metadata. If any of it has changed, cache is invalid
    • Else serve cache. And update cache_meta if required.
  • Process ends here, else continue
  • Build process is initiated
• Build.php:
  • Scan the content directory
  • Loads all plugins and registers hook
  • Parses the requested file
    • If list of all page is required
      • Parses all files and initializes $pages variable
    • YAML and Markdown content is processed and $page variable is initialized
    • before_render hook is called. Here the parse Markdown to HTML content is avialable in $page['content'];
    • Template page is called to create HTML output.
    • The cache is saved
    • after_render hook is called
• end hook is called
• The HTML output is served

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