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#Butler - World Developer Class CMS Butler won't get in your way. Build your site as you want to, then add Butler as a drop-in Backend for your models.

Word of warning; Butler is in Alpha2, fully working, but primitive. Works on my machine guarantee issued :)

Butler is a pluginnable backend for your MVC4 site. After installing the Nuget Package, an area will be added at yourapp.com/Butler/ where you and your users can login, and create/edit/store models for your application. You can then retrieve the model and present it as you wish inside your views. ###Install-Package Butler #######What you get:

• User system, you can use it to authorize your own controllers too!
• A portal that gives you creation/editing capabilities
• A File Database

Butler won't get in your way. Create your site, then add Butler to enable content editing. You don't have to create templates or setup page structures.

Get up and running in 5 minutes.

Install-Package Butler

Edit your global.asax to enable Butlers routes to work. ControllerBuilder.Current.SetControllerFactory(new ButlerWeb.Areas.Butler.Controllers.ControllerFactory());

Now, just create a Model that can store the information you want. Here is an example:

namespace MyMvcApplication.Models {
	public class MyEditablePageInfo : ButlerCore.ButlerDocument {
		public string Title { get; set; }
		public string Summary { get; set; }
		public string Content { get; set; }
		public string AnyOtherText { get; set; }
	}
}

Butler works with the models in your application, it will look for them in YourApplication.Models, this is everything you need to do in order to have the backend allow you to create and store that model.

Start your application, Head over to /Butler. Create a new MyEditablePageInfo. Butler will force you to enter an ID for this perticular MyEditablePageInfo. This ID will be used when fetching the data for presentation later.

Now when you have stored data, you need to retrieve it in order to show it. This can be done in your controller (it can be done everywhere).

var info = ButlerCore.Store.Get<MyMvcApplication.Models.MyEditablePageInfo>("TheIDYouSpecifiedEarlier");
ViewBag.MyInfo = info;
ViewBag.Title = info.Name;

Contact me (@bigCheeseAnders) if you have any questions, feedback or anything else to discuss. I'd be happy to help you! Have a great day.