Lilium CMS Article Validation

This repository is a plugin for Lilium CMS that performs custom validation on an article before it is published.

How it works

info.json

The info.json file contains information that will be used by Lilium CMS to register the plugin.

• The entry key tells Lilium CMS what file is the entry point of the plugin.
• The identifier key is the name that is use by Lilium CMS to identify the plugin. This name is also displayed in the CMS' plugin management interface

entry.js

This file is the main plugin file.

• It first requires the Lilium CMS hooks library by using the global liliumroot variable which represents the root directory of the CMS.
• It defines a class named ArticleValidation which is an arbitrarily chosen name for the plugin. It then exports an instance of this class as a singleton.
• The ArticleValidation class implements the register(_c, info, done) method and the unregister(done) method.
  • The register() method is fired when the plugin is enabled in the plugin management interface and when Lilium CMS starts up, provided that the plugin was enabled beforehand. The method uses the Lilium CMS hooks library to bind on the article_validating hook which is fired right after Lilium CMS has completed its validation of the article and before the article is published. The argument named extra is what the plugin receives from Lilium CMS.
  • The unregister() method is fired when the plugin is disabled. In this case, no cleanup actions are necessary so it immediately passes the control back to Lilium CMS.