Ever had the requirement to quickly do a simple textual change to one of the static pages of your app? – Here comes the solution: Embed a simple CMS!

• Create static pages with editable content
• Declare parts of dynamic pages to be editable via the CMS
• Use tinymce with an image uploader to edit pages and fragments!

To dig deeper into this module, take a look at documentation/manual/home.textile.

Add the dependency in dependency.yml

  require
       - play -> cms 1.0

GET   /page     module:cms

        static boolean check(String profile) {
                String username = connected();
                if (username == null)
                        return false;
                User user = User.findByName(username);
                if (user == null)
                        return false;
                if ("admin".equals(profile))
                        return user.admin;
                return false;
        }

Now navigate to /page/admin and create and edit pages using the Tiny MCE HTML editor. After your have created a page of name, say, page1, eventually use the following URL to display it: /page/page1.

Optionally create the following templates to make the pages look more like being part of your app:

• cms/default.html, which will be used to render your pages.
• cms/cms.html, which will be used to render the cms admin pages.

Congratulations! You just added a CMS to your Play! App!

You could also use this CMS to edit parts of your pages. Simply put parts, say the footer, of your template into a cms display tag:

<div id="footer">
#{cms.display 'footer' }
    <a href="/page/terms.html">Terms</a>
#{/cms.display}
</div>

Simple remove the page or inactivate it to re-establish the old content.