New Features

Support for a local config file

I changed the initialisation such that before loading the default config.json, BlockPress will now first try to load local_config.json. The default page now instructs the new BlockPress user to create this file, and provide a link to the documentation and tutorials in the BlockPress wiki.

To test this we can create a local_config.json file in the web root directory, like this...

Reloading the site then produces the following...

The key change to the code involved the following code snippet...

// JQuery ready function that is called once document has loaded.
$(document).ready(function() {
    // Get local config
    $.ajax("local_config.json").done(parseConfig).fail(function(){
        // Else load default config on failure
        $.ajax("config.json").done(parseConfig).fail(configFail);
    });
});

As you can see, loading the default config is now a fail function of loading the local config.

Error message to display when local and default config files can't be found.

I also updated the config fail function to display a more friendly error message should the site fail, for any reason, to load either the default or local config files. This was done by adding a small hard coded config object into the fail function and instructing BlockPress to parse it in the normal way. I added a file with some error content to display as the main loaded content in such a scenario.

Commits

• Load local_config.json

Try for yourself?

BlockPress is currently in alpha, but we are nearing the initial beta release. If you want to download the code and install it on your own webserver, feel free to clone directly from our github repository. Once the first beta is released, it will also be available as zip and tar.gz downloads.

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