How does the page works
The front end pages are created by user. There is no real physical file in the application. But how do these pages work?
Routing plays a vital role in the solution. There a lot of routes in the solution, admin route, front end page route etc. The priority of front end page route is the lowest, and it is a “All Catch” route. It means that, all of the request that have not been handled by other routes, will be handled by front end page route. The request will goes into main action in PageController.
WidgetAttribute is use to get the page layout(HTML, Bootstrap grid), widgets, contents.
And the attribute decide which layout to use.
There are two more attribute for different scenarios.
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EditWidgetAttributeBe used when design page. -
ViewPageAttributeBe use when view the history page.
Front page layout: /ZKEACMS.WebHost/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml
Request start /index -> Page exists? No -> 404 : Yes -> Get page layout, widgets, contents etc. -> Render widget contents with layout -> Request end.