Just adding to this thread... Awareness of Farcry - We too were looking for an open source cms and headed over to CMSWatch - we took a look at Typo 3 but shied away for many reasons (not least because it is PHP not CF and that it has a very cluttered interface) and kept looking - we then later discovered Farcry and exclaimed 'hallelujah!'. So I concur, getting Farcry listed at CMSWatch may be a good way of 'spreading the word'.
Extensions/Plugins - Whether in the form of an Extension Manager or a repository or a ... I think a place for the community to send/retrieve extensions developed by others would be a valuable resource. For example, we are developing an image/gallery manager which will involve extending dmImage (to include basic image manipulation via JAI), use categories, a custom config and a tag library (JAI interface). Where do we check whether someone has already done this? We will, of course, eventually wish to share this with the community - it would be nice to have a formal/semi formal way of doing this (thinking this through, I suppose we already have the Custom Walkthrough) ... as the guys at Daemon have often said it is up to us to share but I think a framework/mechanism would be useful. In addition, I suppose, what I am trying to say is that WE all know how flexible and extensible Farcry is but it would be good to emphasize this for new users. I suppose we could start by 'promoting' some of the core types into extensions (a bit of marketing flim-flam!), for example news and event types ;-) But, of course, the best advertisement would be additional extensions like Michael's 'E-Commerce', Daemon's 'Forums', someone else mentioned 'Polling', we'll have an 'Image Manager', etc, listed/available on the Farcry site in addition to mentioned in this forum. For me, the real message to take away from Typo 3 is not the application itself but the fact that so much of the documentation, support and additional features are there as a result of the developer community's efforts not just the core team. Just my 2 cents. Regards Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Coughlin Sent: 06 May 2004 19:14 To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] Typo3 features FarCry could benefit from Sorry. I've been trying to post a message here about Typo3 for the past few days but couldn't get my NNTP to work correct (/me kicks self for discovering it was a stupid reason) ----- Typo3 Feature we could really use. Summary: - Extension Manager (Hundreds of extensions/plugins with "one click" installation) - Extensive documentation, walk-throughs, and video tutorials. I'm new to FarCry (and have been using CF since 3.x/4.01), but I was playing with Typo3 for a couple months before learning about FarCry just a couple weeks ago. I have to admit Typo3's feature set is much larger, however FarCry has the potential to go much farther using many of CFMX's features (Typo3 uses PHP... which is still great, but I mean come on :) There's just no comparisson. The biggest feature (IMO) that Typo3 has (that would help make FarCry awesome if we could make something similar) is its Extension Manager. If you look on Typo3.org you'll find that there are hundreds of plugins made by people (and approved by the community). Using Typo3's extension manager you can download and install extensions (plug-ins) either from their website, or from within the CMS (within the extension manager). Even if you have 30 Calendar plugins installed you can choose which ones to activate per site (and use as many as you like... they are treated as objects). They are also listed in a spreadsheet layout (in the CMS) and show their version number (in case you wish to upgrade/downgrade them). I am new to FarCry and so far I have only found a few plug-ins under the FarCry plugins page (I'm hoping there are many more out there somewhere, but to have them all centralized like Typo3 would just be easier). So far for me (a FarCry newbie) I find the FarCry plugins a little difficult to install. With Typo3's "One Click" installation it makes it so much easier to install plugins. Another interesting aspect of Typo3.org is its great tutorials. It has so many walk-throughs that are very detailed. But they don't even compare to the video walk-throughs. If you want to learn how to make your own video walk-throughs they have instructions on their website. ------ Like many of today's CMS tools, they have a website export tool (which exports the entire database, indexes, files, etc) to help easily move your site from one server to another (I haven't gotten that far into FarCry yet, so for all I know this feature exists and I just haven't seen it yet). Oh, and don't try their online demo. It works, but it kinda sucks =\ If you want to attempt your own install I suggest (for Windows) the WAMP quickstart (quickstart is a demo site they provide for you to play with). It will install Typo3, PHP, MySQL, and Apache (yes you can do IIS and MSSQL, but this particular package is easy to install and uninstall and takes about 1-2 minutes with no reboot). Then take a look at the beginner's guide with the quickstart website in mind (http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_tut_quickstart/) - I prefer the PDF version of it here (http://typo3.org/fileadmin/dl/tutorials/quickstart.pdf). I'm not saying I think Typo3 is better. The learning curve can take a bit to use their tools. But their features go way beyond any other Open Source CMS I've seen. I just wish we could incorporate some of their ideas into the potentially better CMS tool FarCry. Regards, Jeff Coughlin ColdFusion Web Application Developer Notes: FarCry really needs to have a decent feature list on their website (Marketing). Take a look at one of these and you'll see what I mean: == http://typo3.com/Feature_list.1243.0.html == http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/support/features.html ALSO... If we could get FarCry listed on CMSWatch we'd get a huge following (Its a research site dedicated to CMS's). 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