Claudio, I think it might help you out quite a lot to get some good experience with CF before diving into a complex CMS application. I'm a CF expert and I know a little bit of PHP. If I just jumped into Xoops, I'd probably have a hell of a time following the code and figuring out what all is going on. I'd likely end up getting frustrated and giving it all up fairly quickly.
However, if I spent some time to get really good at PHP, I would have a much easier time figuring out what was going on. Without that acclimation period, I'd likely have a really tough time with the way Smarty works and how function calls work in PHP. I'm not looking to insult you, as I'm sure you're a good developer, but maybe you're trying to jump into the deep end too quickly. I would suggest taking some time to get a base of understanding. --Ferg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of claudio rosemffet Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 8:01 AM To: FarCry Developers Subject: [farcry-dev] why so complicated..? I'm trying to understand this development. It seems very powerfull, but I can't figure myself why is so complicated.! It supposed that coldfusion app server simplifies the developement of a site. PHP, ASP suposed more complex than coldfusion. But, the code of farcry is really impossible to understand to me. hundreeds of calling routines, calling others, including others into, and so.... impossible to follow and understand. ! I'm really a php expert, contributor in various serious developement like phprojekt, postnuke, etc, trying to get my first steps in farcry. I've been trying to modify code about 3 days without any success. I'm close to throw it all away. as an example, all I want to do is insert a new step in html page creation. the probmem is actually we have 8 steps in html creation page: -start, -files, -images, -teaser, -body, -related, -categories, -complete. I need to insert a new step "audio", because I want add to html pages audio files, between images and teaser steps, i.e. -images, -audio, -teaser... obviously I've modified the preferences to accept audio/mpeg sources, but I'm trying to understand an IMPOSSIBLE CODE !. it seems that the dropdown navigation menu in html page creation, comes from phpNavigationbuttons.cfm, the option gets its value from #CALLER.stPLP.Steps[i].name#, the caller seems to be start.cfm ... etc. I've added the step <farcry:plpstep name="audio" template="audio.cfm"> in edit.cfm, also the file audio.cfm exist in directory, bun nothing happens at all. please, I'm about to die. I need to understand the philosofy of that, as a developer I cant understand how can make it so complicated one of the simplest things in programming like to construct a dropdown menu. --- 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/
