Front End

New ContentBox Theme

We have a new official UI theme that you will come to love. It has over 10 different skins and configurations that will give you a plethora of configuration patterns for your site. It is based on bower and grunt assets, so you can easily fork and customize.

RESTFul Response Formats

The UI module now allows you to be able to export your pages, or blog entries in many response formats by adding the formats as extensions to the URL or using a ?format=XXX URL variable.

• json

• XML

• PDF

• word

http://localhost/home.json
http://localhost/blog.json
http://localhost/blog/websockets.xml

The JSON and XML support means you can now build alternative UI modules based on modern JavaScript or other language frameworks. This is a game changer for ContentBox as it will provide you with the ability to export any piece of content or blog in a tranportable RESTFul format. You can get a response format from any page, blog entry, blog archive, and blog filters.

JSON Output

{
    "HTMLDescription": "",
    "HTMLKeywords": "",
    "allowComments": false,
    "categories": [
        {
            "category": "coldbox",
            "slug": "coldbox"
        }
    ],
    "children": [],
    "comments": [],
    "content": "<p>Support services</p>\r\n\r\n<p><p>Sorry, no related content was found.</p></p>\r\n\r\n<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut odio. Nam sed est. Nam a risus et est iaculis adipiscing. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Integer ut justo. In tincidunt viverra nisl. Donec dictum malesuada magna. Curabitur id nibh auctor tellus adipiscing pharetra. Fusce vel justo non orci semper feugiat. Cras eu leo at purus ultrices tristique.</p>",
    "contentID": 147,
    "contentType": "Page",
    "createdDate": "20 Jul 2013 03:38 PM",
    "customfields": [],
    "excerpt": "",
    "expireDate": "N/A",
    "featuredImageURL": "",
    "isDeleted": false,
    "modifiedDate": "May 3, 2016 4:23:25 PM CDT",
    "publishedDate": "20 Jul 2013 03:38 PM",
    "relatedcontent": [],
    "showInMenu": true,
    "slug": "support",
    "title": "support"
}

XML Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<page>
    <content>&lt;p&gt;Support services&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorry, no related content was found.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut odio. Nam sed est. Nam a risus et est iaculis adipiscing. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Integer ut justo. In tincidunt viverra nisl. Donec dictum malesuada magna. Curabitur id nibh auctor tellus adipiscing pharetra. Fusce vel justo non orci semper feugiat. Cras eu leo at purus ultrices tristique.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
    <children>
        <array/>
    </children>
    <excerpt/>
    <isdeleted>false</isdeleted>
    <relatedcontent>
        <array/>
    </relatedcontent>
    <htmldescription/>
    <slug>support</slug>
    <createddate>20 Jul 2013 03:38 PM</createddate>
    <contentid>147</contentid>
    <publisheddate>20 Jul 2013 03:38 PM</publisheddate>
    <showinmenu>true</showinmenu>
    <categories>
        <array>
            <item>
                <struct>
                    <slug>coldbox</slug>
                    <category>coldbox</category>
                </struct>
            </item>
        </array>
    </categories>
    <contenttype>Page</contenttype>
    <expiredate>N/A</expiredate>
    <modifieddate>May 3, 2016 4:23:25 PM CDT</modifieddate>
    <customfields>
        <array/>
    </customfields>
    <comments>
        <array/>
    </comments>
    <title>support</title>
    <featuredimageurl/>
    <allowcomments>false</allowcomments>
    <htmlkeywords/>
</page>

New Rendering Cache Headers

A new header will be sent to the browser if a content page is cached: x-contentbox-cached-content. This can provide proxies or cache engines the ability to tell when a page is cached by ContentBox.