Catalogue of Ships

"now will I tell the purpose of the sifbuilder functions and the functions in their order": the automatic generation of sites from a XML site definition specifying constituting modules, blocks, themes and content, and based on various core CMS -the specification files are located in the sibs folder in the sifbuilder distribution-; association of modules and themes to specific site profiles; management of dependencies and conflicts between modules and site components; structure the actions constituting the creation of a site; access to the functions of the cores and modules from the command line; comparison of the version of installed packages against that of the most recent releases; update of modules in a site with those most recently released aiming to the automatic update of web sites; backup and restore of web sites; cloning of sites using site backup, restore and site configuration; generation of a module based on the XML representation of the relational schema as a means to automate the development of a Web application building of the functions offered by the CMS cores; installation of sites on remote hosts through SSH connections; creation or removal of multiple sites using use cases.

These examples assume the configuration of target hosts and sites in ../sifbuilder_local/sifnet_config.php. Examples of those definitions can be found here. Omitting -v and adding --expandsiteparams option, the command is shown in simulated mode. Without -f, specification of the target site can be done interactively through the command line.

Using sifbuilder is risky and can result is substantial data loss. Never use sifbuilder without a backup in place. Once said that, the sifbuilder site is regularly updated and maintained using sifbuilder.