Projects (FTP, WebDAV, Blog protocols) in Amy Editor

There has been some limited effort on finishing the project feature support. Amy Editor now fully supports external APIs for accessing your documents via its Projects pane.

Project in general is a collection of resources (for now documents if you will) provided by third parties (such as your company, your fellow developers website and such) that is accessible to you.

Each project has its own unique URL address, pretty much like any standard web page. If you want to open a project, all you need is such URL. Optionally the project can contain several parameters for you to adjust. Eg. FTP Editor project requires the login credentials along with ftp address itself (so do DAV and Blog editors).

There are currently four projects available to you:

• Playground
  
  
  URL: http://www.april-child.com/amy/projects/playground.php
  
  
  It’s the simpliest of projects, purposed for those who just want to play with Amy for the first time. Contents are stored on Amy server and are generally accessible.
• DAV Editor
  
  
  URL: http://www.april-child.com/amy/projects/dav.php
  
  
  Access webdav resources. If you happen to have WebDAV access (that is accessible from internet), you may access it and actually open documents in Amy.
• FTP Editor
  
  
  URL: http://www.april-child.com/amy/projects/ftp.php
  
  
  The same as DAV, except for any FTP server. Do you have a website hosted and want to be able to access its contents from anywhere using just your browser and comfortable editor? This
  
  might be the way.
• Blog
  
  
  URL: http://www.april-child.com/amy/projects/blog.php
  
  
  Use this project for accessing your blog contents. It serves as a generic blog editation tool. Currently supported is the MovableType API, works fine with any Wordpress, other systems are currently not tested (and for simplicity won’t work due lack of blogID parameter), but this will eventually change for full blog API support including those of Blogger.

The “project feature” itself is controlled by its own API, so it’s fairly easy to create your own unique project taking documents from your application and allow access (restricted, limited, …) to fellow developers/collaborators all via Amy. There is no need to let authentication slip past your fingers, you may as well do it yourself and still be able to create a project. The API will be presented soon (or you may mail me for additional info). There are libraries/plugins for Ruby on Rails and PHP5 at the moment.

Projects pane in Amy Editor Screenshot

Note, the editor has changed its URL to http://www.april-child.com/amy.

Stay tuned!