(/me kicks self for discovering it was a stupid reason)
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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.
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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). Thats how I found out about Typo3 and many others during my original research a few months ago.
== http://www.cmswatch.com/ContentManagement/Products/
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