Your best bet is to download Joomla or Mambo or something similar and just look at their database tables, do some changes, and see how they're handling it. I mean, I hate to say it, but reverse engineering is the way to go here. Some of these systems are fairly tried and true and you'd be best off just digging through their schemas, code, etc. Allen
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ajas Mohammed Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] writing a Content Mngmt system in CF..FAQ or Howto? thanks guys. But my issue is not exactly about Joomla or any CMS for that matter. Steven, I read that doc on wikipedia before I posted here. What i want is some sort of diagram or doc explaining what or how the cfm or htm page gets created by using the info which is iam 100% sure stored somewhere in the database. So when the user requests index3.cfm, index3.cfm is actually created using values from the db cols like bgcolor, font and the main content, I believe is brought from another table and so on. I need details like these. anyone out there with these high level details??? or can you guide me to a doc/link. thanks, Ajas. On 4/11/07, Fennell, Mark P. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but I've found Katapult to be super simple and ridiculously easy to use... So long as you're running CF on windows... http://labs.fusionlink.com/katapult/index.cfm?page=projects/katapult -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] On Behalf Of Steven Ross Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] writing a Content Mngmt system in CF..FAQ or Howto? for your last question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system not sure how Joomla works, they are all pretty much the same also there is a manual for joomla: http://help.joomla.org/images/User_manual/user_manual_v1%200%201_10%2021 %2006.pdf that may help. On 4/11/07, Ajas Mohammed < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I came across Joomla which is a great tool > and I have heard of so many content management systems(CMS) written in > CF. My question is how the application works because all a user is > doing is saving some settings in the application for example lets say > user saves backgroundcolor property to blue, font to arial etc. Now > when user views his website page lets say pagetest.cfm, this page gets > the property of bgcolor and font from the CMS and displays it to the user. So my assumptions are : > 1) The CF CMS page saves the settings or properties in database. > 2) on every new page creation from CMS, a new entry is stored in db i.e. > index1.cfm, index2.cfm and so on. > > Then, my question is how does the page code for lets say index2.cfm > gets generated? Also, I am not sure how different pages in the website > use/get the property bgcolor, font. At runtime, I guess a query gets > info and dynamically generates the pages for the website. > > Can anybody give me a better idea or general overview from scratch of > how the application works? What are the things needed to develop a CMS > and so on. I apologize if the question or my explanation is not clear. > > Thanks > -- > <Ajas Mohammed /> > http://ajashadi.blogspot.com <http://ajashadi.blogspot.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > <http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform> > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ > http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/> > List hosted by FusionLink > ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Steven Ross web application & interface developer http://www.zerium.com <http://www.zerium.com> [mobile] 404-488-4364 [fax] 267-482-4364 ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?falogin.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com ------------------------------------------------------------- -- <Ajas Mohammed /> http://ajashadi.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
