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Extension-first documentation for AI-enhanced development. Blocks, requests, and versioned packages — all in one place.

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Documentation

Installation

Configure environment, register extensions, and run core install.

Core framework

Templates, layouts, blocks, and request architecture.

Extensions

Build versioned packages with schemas, blocks, and requests.

Blocks & requests

UI composition and API operations architecture.

PHP conventions

Request closures, auth checks, PAPI helpers, response format.

JavaScript conventions

$block pattern, API calls, WindowManager, DOM rendering.

Database schema

JSON object definitions with infoKeys, metaKeys, and permissions.

Common patterns

Reusable patterns for lists, forms, windows, and confirmations.

Paradigm UI

Component registry, data binding, and declarative rendering.

Paradigm CSS

Attribute-driven styles, hover states, and breakpoints.

Capabilities

Pages, routing, search, menus, exports, and admin tools.

AI workflows

Prompting conventions and safe-change guidelines for AI dev.

What Paradigm CMS is

Paradigm CMS is a PHP-based, extension-driven CMS where the core extension provides pages, routing, blocks, and admin tooling. It also includes global search, menu management, documentation delivery, exports, file tools, and environment configuration.

Everything beyond the core is packaged as an extension, so new features are shipped as versioned folders that can be enabled per site.

AI-ready system map

Paradigm CMS is optimized for AI-enhanced development because its conventions map directly to file paths and predictable APIs.

  • Blocks resolve from slugs like extension:block to PHP files in extensions/<slug>/<version>/src/blocks/.
  • Requests resolve from actions like extension:entity->action to PHP files in extensions/<slug>/<version>/src/API/requests/.
  • REST endpoints resolve from METHOD /API/ext/resource to extensions/<slug>/<version>/src/API/REST/resource/method.php.
  • Database schema lives in src/config/objects/ JSON files for structured model definitions.
  • Convention rules are maintained in CLAUDE.md and .cursor/rules/ for AI agents.