Thank you for your thoughts Geoff. I will have a crack at it and see how far I get.
I might even set up a project on CFOPEN or SOURCEFORGE. I am new to open source development. Does this community have a preference for one or the other? James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Bowers Sent: 05 October 2004 00:46 To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Should I use Farcry for a blog-farm? James, Some thoughts re blog farm. > The key requirements are > * fans should be able to sign up and the System shall create them a blog > and a user account. You can certainly do this but there is nothing really in the default aura project to help you here. You would have to build the following items yourself: - membership registration form - membership profile management screens - enforce some kind of content hierachy to isolate one bolg from another > * custom content like polls, forums etc can easily be inserted by the > user. Polls are easy to build (or you could integrate Pollster from the Macromedia DRK. There is a prototype forum object already -- ask Paul or Brendan on this list for the latest code. > * static content like navigation, adverts etc cannot be changed by the > user. Now this bit is straightforward. However, you'd need to build a more sophisticated Ad object to manage clickthroughs and impression counts. > I see 3 options; > * use Farcry > * use CF-Nuke and tweak it. > * use an CF blog application and tweak it. > * write my own Fusebox 4 application. All of them sound like a fair bit of work. I'm not sure of CF-Nukes feature set -- if its close to PHP Nuke it may initially be easy to set up the sort of application you are looking for. > Could you kind reader advise me whether Farcry is suited for this problem? > What are its strengths and weaknesses. FarCry is well suited to any CF app that is content management heavy. Your only issue is that out-of-the-box FarCry is aimed at enterprise content management environements and *not* community oriented applications. I'd love to see some more farcry_aura style applications being built around the community development model (and daemon would be happy to host and nurture such projects). For example, a farcry_blog code base is something I've been hoping for -- but there is only so much one body shop can do at once :) -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
