# 2 questions about modifying radiant for my needs

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-questions-about-modifying-radiant-for-my-needs/130292>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [February 27, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-questions-about-modifying-radiant-for-my-needs/130292 "2008-02-27T04:18:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jason\_Rabolli](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@Jason\_Rabolli](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jason_Rabolli)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/2-questions-about-modifying-radiant-for-my-needs/130292/1 "2008-02-27T04:18:23Z")

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I love Radiant! Great CMS!  
I have a local copy and would like to try extending/changing it in two  
ways - need a little help, or at least pointed in the right direction in  
the code.

1. I would like to modify things such that the edit page (main work  
area) and the file tree (tree structure of pages) are on the same page .  
I.E. the page hierarchy is on the left and the edit view is in the  
middle. Can you help me get started with this? what files would need  
to be modified etc?

2. I would like to ultimately use this CMS to update the content of a  
site by sending the data(content, changes …) to the site via FTP. So I  
am thinking instead of just rendering to the screen, to somehow FTP the  
updates or complete site data to ultimate location, some other site.  
Does this make sense? So I guess instead of just ‘publish’ or ‘view  
site’, I need to create the ability to FTP and send the information to  
another location. Can you help me get started with this? What file  
would I insert such a method or logic and what might this FTP code look  
like? Seems like with Rails it might be easy to simply add a method  
that somehow wraps all the data pertaining to a site being controlled by  
Radiant and FTP’ing that information somewhere.

But I am new to Radiant and Rails for that matter, so your help would be  
hugely appreciated!

JR

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