graffiticms

e-commerce widget for GraffitiCMS

Does anyone know of a e-commerce widget for GraffitiCMS? ...

Subcategories and Drop-down Menus in Graffiti CMS?

I am trying to build my first website using Graffiti CMS and have added a couple of categories that have parents. Yet they don't appear anywhere in my Navigation config screen, nor (obviously) on the menu system. How do you display sub-categories? Is there a turnkey way to implement dropdown menus or do I have to roll my own? ...

Graffiti CMS: View Overrides

I've got a Graffiti CMS (http://graffiticms.com) questions that is driving me crazy. I figured this would be the best place to try to get an answer and at the same time hopefully provider an answer for someone else with the same issue. First, I have a site structure like this: Category1 Sub-Category1 Category2 Sub-Category3 Sub-Cat...

How Bad is this Code?

Ok, I am an amateur programmer and just wrote this. It gets the job done, but I am wondering how bad it is and what kind of improvements could be made. [Please note that this is a Chalk extension for Graffiti CMS.] public string PostsAsSlides(PostCollection posts, int PostsPerSlide) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();...

Graffiti CMS plugin post to Facebook users wall?

I want to create a plugin for Graffiti CMS that automatically sends to Facebook my post when i finish to publish it. There is any way to connect to facebook with the user's username and password and post the new content to the user's wall? I read about the .net library that microsoft released for facebook but all auth is made by poping ...

Building the Graffiti CMS Source Code and Deploying Website

Can anyone provide any assistance with building the Graffiti CMS (http://graffiticms.codeplex.com) source code to have a ready to deploy web site? When I download the source and do a Visual Studio build everything builds fine. When I look at the folder on disk of Graffiti.Web I see there are a lot of extra files that are not needed for ...

Graffiti CMS: Search Custom Fields

I am trying to figure out a way to search through posts' custom fields. Basically, what I need is to find a post where post.CustomField1 == "some value" I've searched and searched and been digging through the Graffiti CMS source code (graffiticms.codeplex.com) and can't figure out how I would do this. ...

Customizing GraffitiCMS

I downloaded GraffitiCMS the other day(now open source and free), and like a lot of what I see, but what I really want to use it for, is to add CMS capabilities to an existing asp.net database/application. Without getting bogged down with all the details of my app, can someone give me the basic 'approach' that should be taken to add cus...

Graffiti CMS - do I really need to 777 the entire install?

I am trying to install GraffitiCMS on my rackspacecloud account. It is mostly working, but it seems I pretty much have to set everything to 777 to get it to work? Is that even reasonable? While I am not security expert, it seems that having to basically leave the door wide open to everyone in the world is not a great solution. Am I mis...

Has anyone wrote a SQL Azure data provider for Graffiti CMS 1.3

Is anybody using SQL Azure with Graffiti CMS. If so how do you add SQL Azure as your DB for Graffiti CMS 1.3? ...

GraffitiCMS Comment Forms

In GraffitiCMS v1.2, I'm trying to include the comment form on my blog posts, but the submit button does nothing. Comments are enabled for the post, and I've included $macros.CommentForm() in the blog.post.view file. I've also confirmed that the necessary Ajax.ashx file exists on the root. Are there any other dependencies? Are there any...

strange characters on web page

I have a graffiti blog and i have a strange problem which is showing strange char page like this: This page was showing when I opened my control panel admin page. It's also showing the same when I try to edit one of my previous posts. My problem is that i don't know what's the reason behind it. I am not sure how to fix this. All my...