Mango Blog

Over the course of the past week I've been working on a new onTap framework plugin that will download and install Mango Blog into an onTap framework application.

I haven't put a zip archive of the plugin up yet, however, I have managed to reach a point where both the front-end blog and the admin will display and that there is basic integration between the Members onTap plugin security features and the Mango Blog security features.

I still need to test the administration area to make sure it works and I need to get a closer look at the Mango Blog permissions to see how I want to integrate them with Members onTap. I'd like to set it so that all the permissions are handled in the Members onTap admin area, along with all the other application permissions, instead of leaving them in the Mango Blog admin. Basically, I want one place to manage security settings instead of two. I expect it won't be too difficult. :)

I will say that Laura did some things in the design of this blog that have been very helpful in creating this plugin integration. Using the variable Application.blogFacade was one of them. Personally I would have preferred simply application.mango because I think it's less likely to produce a namespace conflict, however, the blogFacade was still a big help in integrating. But even more so than the blogFacade was the addition of delegated authentication. This allows you to configure Mango Blog to use a 3rd-party user-athentication system that you've already got in place and you can read more about it on the official Mango Blog site. So it's allows me to create a nice, neat little single-sign-on for Mango Blog that I'm rather happy with. :)

In the next few days once I get these last details fleshed out, it should be available on the web service, so you can simply download it from the plugin manager. :)