Sites & domainsBuilt-in tool · Melis CMS

Create & run whole websites

A site is one entire website — its name, the domains it answers on, the languages it offers, the modules it runs and its global settings. The Sites tool is where all of that lives.

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The Sites tool listing the platform's websites
5-step wizardSpin up a new site
Per environmentDomains for dev & prod

Part of

Melis CMS

Type

Built-in tool

Back-office

CMS › Sites

Create

5-step wizard

Domains

Per environment

Settings

Config & translations

Overview

One website, end to end

The Sites tool is where you create a new website, or change anything that applies to a whole site rather than a single page — its identity, the web addresses it answers on, the languages it offers, and which features are switched on.

It's also home to the per-site settings templates and modules rely on: key/value Site config and the Translations that supply on-screen wording per language.

Key features

Everything that defines a website

Identity, addresses, languages and features — managed in one place, per site.

5-step site wizard

Name it, pick a theme, attach domains, choose languages, confirm — and the site, its home page and base config are created.

Domains, per environment

A site can answer on several domains, with different domains on dev and production. This is how Melis knows which site to serve.

Module loading

Switch features (News, Slider, custom modules) on or off per site — the usual fix for ‘why doesn’t my feature appear?’.

Site config

Site-wide key/value settings — analytics id, contact email, API keys — read by templates via the SiteConfig helper, no hard-coding.

Translations

On-screen text strings per language, printed by templates via siteTranslate, kept separate from page content.

Home & 404 pages

Set the page shown at the root ‘/’ and the custom 404 visitors see when a URL doesn’t exist.

See it in action

Turn features on, per site

Each module becomes available on a site the moment you load it here.

Sites › Module loading
Switching modules on per site
LoadedPlugins now available
Configure

Turn features on, per site

Each module only works on a site once it’s loaded here — toggle it on, save, and its plugins and tools become available.

  • Load a module on a site
  • Bind a domain per environment
  • Store a per-site setting

For developers

How it's wired

Many controllers

SitesController plus Sites{Properties,Domains,Languages,Translation,Config,ModuleLoader}Controller drive each tab.

Services

MelisCmsSiteService, MelisCmsSiteModuleLoadService, MelisCmsSitesDomainsService, MelisCmsSitesPropertiesService.

Read site data

Resolve a site from a domain via MelisEngineSiteService — cached, like the rest of the engine.

// Resolve the site serving a domain:
$siteSvc = $sm->get('MelisEngineSiteService');
$site = $siteSvc->getSiteDataByDomain('www.example.com');

// In a template, read a per-site setting:
$this->SiteConfig('default_lang_id');   // e.g. 2 = FR

Part of Melis CMS

Explore the rest of the toolbox

Sites are one of the CMS back-office tools — here are the others.

Melis CMS Templates Languages Mini Templates Site redirects News

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