On Saturday 22 September 2007 3:07:58 am Ian Warner wrote: > This can have the aim of providing a best practice selection of reusable > classes and modules. > > I would be interested to help organise and create such a group and even > provide some hosting space etc. > > As always the hard thing with something like this is starting and > maintaining the momentum.
I'm already starting something like that for the bussiness I work for. The idea was to have portlets (or web parts as MS call them) so that you install a module and just have a lot of boxes to add to a webpace... just the way netvibes work. First, we start with a tree of pages, using the nested set model (see http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html ) each page can have many columns and each column contains boxes We already have a simple text box, a rich text box (using FckEditor), an image box and a container box. wich can have columns. The editor let's you drag and drop the boxes (using scriptaculous) to make a very incredible experiene. The menu (using the nested set) is very easy to create and the breadcrums and etc. but the magic is that you can rewrite the friendly URL for a page, so the created menu can be something like this: About Us -> Cms/Page/aboutUs (with a fckeditor box) Find us -> Cms/Page/findUs (with a simple text box + a google map box, in developement) Contact us -> Cms/Form/Contact (redirecting to a form that sends everything to a mail) Search -> http://google.com?q=site:<?=$this->baseUrl()?> The friendly URL for about us, find us, is auto created for the current CMS , it is a very big label to tag this as a CMS.. but that's the idea.. to grow ;) If you are interested.. we can start something like this... I would like to hear what others thinkg of the way I'm doing things here alone. -- Stuardo -StR- Rodríguez http://strgt.cjb.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
