Developer Tutorials

This section includes step-by-step tutorials to help web developers new to webCOMAND get started.

Content Databases

The following tutorials walk through how to model and work with content in webCOMAND. Go through them in order to end up with a database of United States Presidents that can be used as an example database in subsequent tutorials.

Content Types - Create a simple database.
Import/Export - Get objects into and out of the database.
Paths & Queries - Retrieve objects from the database.
Web Services - Access and update the database from remote code.
PHP API - Perform basic CRUD operations in independent apps.

Web Apps

The following tutorials cover how to build different types of web apps.

Packages - Modules that contain content, components and code.
Routing - How to access packages from various URLs.
MVC Apps - Build an MVC app as a package.
webCOMAND Apps - Build an app that is integrated into webCOMAND.
Standalone MVC Apps - Build an app that does not require webCOMAND routing.

Publications

The following tutorials cover how to set up a publication to produce files for a website, app or documentation.

Single Page - Create a simple single-page publication.
Multi-Page - Add additional pages and link them all together.
Dynamic Page - Add dynamic page elements.