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1. shines,

Jul 27, 2012 8:56 PM in reply to mario_gudelj

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Hi Mario, on the similar line of thinking, questions often arises, what language are these modules in busiiness catalyst written with ,is there any good docuemntation on that? Is therea plan to make it open source? What is the best place to get an overall architectural description of business catalyst; where is the official Api doc for business catalyst.

Thanks ahead for throwing some light on these.

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2. Liam Dilley,

Jul 27, 2012 10:06 PM in reply to shines

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Hi there,

The code is likely not to ever be open source. The system is built on .NET (ASP).

Liquid is on the cards for a release at some point hopefully sooner then later which has more server side esk features but still not full server side access. You wont ever get that with BC.

API documentation can be found on the BC knowledgebase if you want to use the Soap REST API's.

Guides on using BC modules, layouts etc can also be found on the knowledgebase. You can find the modules and tag quick reference page links on the side on the main landing overview page of these forums.

Here are some links:

http://helpx.adobe.com/business-catalyst/kb/modules-quick-reference.ht ml

http://helpx.adobe.com/business-catalyst/kb/tags---quick-reference.htm l

http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/tutorials/

http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/browse/

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3. kenneth_rapp,

Jul 28, 2012 11:42 AM in reply to shines

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I know it will never ever happen, even when (if) liquid (ever) gets off the ground, but some kind of server-side scripting access would be amazing.

I mean just imagine if there was a repository for open source modules here, as with wordpress plugins, or google gadgets.

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4. Liam Dilley,

Jul 28, 2012 4:07 PM in reply to kenneth_rapp

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Things like import export of web apps and market place have been discussed, liquid will come out and more features added but it won't be open source. Not that kind of platform. If you want that explore other options.

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5. shines,

Jul 28, 2012 8:34 PM in reply to Liam Dilley

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I can understand where Liam is coming from. The platform itself was never designed to compete with platforms like wordpress, however given that Adobe is taking Bc as their main web presence platform with all that array of brilliant design tools in the backend [ps,il, etc] , I almost feel the impedance mismatch if Bc is going to limit itself to webapps which the opensource community cannot tweak with- I shall wait for liquid to come out to see what direction Adobe is going ,especially in keeping with HTMl5 and javascript maturity.

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6. kenneth_rapp,

Jul 28, 2012 8:51 PM in reply to shines

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I almost feel the impedance mismatch if Bc is going to limit itself to webapps which the opensource community cannot tweak with- I shall wait for liquid to come out to see what direction Adobe is going ,especially in keeping with HTMl5 and javascript maturity.

I know... I half expected to be able to build and compile flash apps right in the site editor or something when I heard about it.

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7. Liam Dilley,

Jul 29, 2012 4:07 AM in reply to kenneth_rapp

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Nope, not what is on the cards.
Just wait and see. It wont be open source but you will get more cool toys down the line.

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8. TomCuneo-MLT,

Jul 30, 2012 11:10 AM in reply to Liam Dilley

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I just want more documentation, API examples and an affiliate based API operation LOL :-) For us BC newbs figuring out how to display back api information on websites, etc is just not documented from my searches...

Tom

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9. mario_gudelj,

Aug 5, 2012 4:56 PM in reply to TomCuneo-MLT

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Hi Tom,

BC uses SOAP web services and the best place to start is http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/635/bc_635.html.

There aren't many implementation examples around, though, but if you look at https://worldsecuresystems.com/catalystwebservice/catalystcrmwebservic e.asmx and

https://worldsecuresystems.com/catalystwebservice/catalystecommerceweb service.asmx you'll see the web services available.

Affiliate program information is not available through APIs though. You'll have to use the affiliate reporting that comes in admin.

Cheers,

-mario

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10. rhcaldwell,

Dec 29, 2012 3:21 PM in reply to mario_gudelj

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Saw this earlier post which seems pretty definitive on .PHP within BC. Prior to taking my Adobe Muse site live and while in the BC Trial Version, I did in fact load some .PHP files for styling an embedded Google Calendar. I used a small script from http://www.restylegc.com. I got this to work perfectly. Once I converted my subscription to webBasics+ and went live, I guess your policies went into affect so now it does not work. Any update on whether this will be possible in the future?

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11. Lynda Spangler,

Dec 29, 2012 6:29 PM in reply to rhcaldwell

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To my knowledge BC has never and never will support PHP or other server side languages.

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12. Liam Dilley,

Dec 29, 2012 8:06 PM in reply to rhcaldwell

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You wont be running on BC or running PHP files. Like Lynda said BC is .net based and does not have apache and also does not allow these files So that is not possible.

You may think you have but this will not be the case. The server environment does not support PHP and the file types are not allowed.

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