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  1. 1 Before you start
  2. 2 Install
  3. 3 Pages
  4. 4 Your first template
  5. 5 Components
  6. 6 Site frame
  7. 7 Page fields
  8. 8 Page lists
  9. 9 Custom settings
  10. 10 Measuring visit
  11. 11 Live parts
  12. 12 Go live
  13. 13 What’s next

What’s next

The studio’s site is up and running. Here’s what else Eile can do and where to look when you want more.

Chapter 13 of 13 · 2 min read

Over twelve chapters you installed Eile, built templates and components, added fields and settings, made a form that collects requests, brought a page to life with an island and put the site on the internet. That covers most small sites. Everything else is optional.

The Component kit has SearchForm (a search box for the header) and SearchResults (a results page that highlights the matches). Search understands Russian and English word endings: a search for “kitchens” also finds “kitchen”.

Multiple languages

You set the language on a branch of the tree: a page at /en with the language set to English, and everything inside it is in English. Template labels are translated in Settings → Translations. The site you’re reading works this way: the Russian home page is at /, and the English one is at /en.

Ready-made scaffolds

The cms new command sets up a ready-made site: a blog, a portfolio, a company site, a showcase or a shop. They make a good textbook: set up a scaffold in a separate folder and read through its elements.

$ mkdir blog-example
$ cd blog-example
$ cms new blog
$ cms --port 8081

The --port 8081 option keeps the example from fighting over the port with the studio site, in case that one is running too.

Plugins

A plugin changes how the whole site behaves. It can adjust the finished HTML before it goes out, redirect an address that doesn’t exist or react when a page is published. You write it in TypeScript right in Elements and turn it on with one button.

Moving from MODX Evo

If you have a site on MODX Evolution, you can move it over from a MySQL dump with cms import-evo dump.sql. The tree with its ids, the templates, chunks and TVs come along. PHP snippets have to be rewritten as components, and you now know how to do that.

Documentation

  • The Help section in the manager: how to run a site, in short notes organized by task.
  • cms help in the terminal: every command, with examples.
  • The glossary (in Russian for now): every $core function and Eile term.
  • The source of this site: it’s made with Eile, and you can read all of its templates.