Just my two cents, but I wouldn't use the lift namespace... If you use the lift tags OOTB, you risk designers shoving lots of comet actors on a single page. You would get more granular control if you created a special set of tags:
<cms:something ...... /> Cheers, Tim On 18/08/2009 23:00, "Ewan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been scratching my head about that one too. I have used both > Alfresco and opencms to produce both dynamic and static and in the > case of dynamic they have their own servlet/filter to render the > content - I've not yet spent enough time working out how and if they > can be fitted together. > > For me, having used Hybris (J2EE ecommerce engine with some CMS built > in), I'd like to be able to have page fragments in a template served > from "the CMS" (lift snippets presumably) that would be created/ > maintained with some aspect of workflow by CMS user(s) in an > associated CMS lift webapp with funky (X)HTML editor support. My web > guys, non-lift devs, can then sprinkle cms tags where appropriate. A > tag might be <lift:cms contentId="news" count="5" order="ascending"/> > which would render the last five news items in ascending order. > > Just some thoughts > > -- Ewan > > On Aug 18, 10:09 pm, "Terry J. Leach" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would like to know how the Lift/Scala can leveraged to with Alfresco >> or any other open source Java based CMS. >> >> Terry J. Leach >> >> On Aug 17, 2:09 pm, Stefan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'll chime in here since I've been evaluating several CMSs lately. >> >>> I previously used Drupal and WordPress as my CMSs - now however I'm >>> moving everything to MODx because of the increased flexibility and >>> more-logical organization, and I'm also impressed with the demos of >>> SilverStripe, TypoLight Typo3 - and LifeRay, which is written in Java >>> instead of PHP. (LifeRay seems to be much more than a CMS - it claims >>> to offer collaboration and social networking.) >> >>> Some on-line demos here: >> >>> MODx -http://trymodx.com/ >>> SilverStripe -http://demo.silverstripe.com/ >>> TypoLight -http://www.typolight.org/demo.html >>> Typo3 -http://testsite.punkt.de/ >>> LifeRay -http://demo.liferay.net/web/guest/home >> >>> It would be good to take a look at these additional CMSs as they offer >>> some capabilities beyond WordPress and Drupal. >> >>> Drupal in particular is wildly popular but it may no longer be the >>> best candidate to imitate, as it is less well-organized and less >>> flexible/customizable (compared say to MODx, which lets you take CSS >>> from an existing site and use it for your site, and which lets you >>> apply a template to a single document, unlike Drupal where a theme >>> applies to the entire site). To keep up with advanced CMSs, Drupal has >>> evolved to use a bunch of (often redundant or competing) modules which >>> are not always compatible with current releases. Examples of things >>> that Drupal treats as "add-ons" (modules) are: custom content (the >>> "CCK/Views" modules, with their confusing albeit AJAX-y interface), >>> multi-language, and photo galleries (I gave up on Drupal after a few >>> days of trying out various photo gallery modules, none of which I >>> could understand). Finally, it seems odd that Drupal, as a "content >>> management system", lacks something all advanced CMSs have: a >>> *treeview* of the overall site content. Instead, it only has a jumbled >>> *list* of content, sorted by not by location but by last edited (!), >>> with all translations also scattered through the list based on last- >>> edited date, and this list is buried several levels deep in the admin >>> navigation system, unlike the site content treeview navigator which is >>> prominently displayed (usually on the left) in advanced CMSs. (Of >>> course, I don't want to veer off-topic here and start a CMS flame war >>> here in this liftweb discussion. :-) >> >>> Regarding "dynamic site map" creation - I do know that MODx has >>> something like this, using WayFinder to create a menu from selected >>> branches of the site's document tree, automatically including any >>> updated sub-branches, and I believe most other advanced CMSs have >>> something like this too. >> >>> LifeRay seems very intriguing - it claims to do a lot beyond just CMS. >>> Since it's written in Java (not PHP), who knows if some of its code >>> could be leveraged in Scala. >> >>> So these might be some additional interesting CMSs to keep in mind >>> (beyond Drupal and WordPress) when building a new CMS using liftweb. >> >>> - Stefan Scott >> >>> On Aug 16, 3:13 pm, glenn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> Philip, >> >>>> I'm working on a cms system in Lift. Right now, it allows for content >>>> creation using wymeditor, which can be >>>> tagged and displayed as an atom feed. This code is runnable, simple as >>>> it is. I'm working on adding dynamic site map creation as well. Is >>>> this kind >>>> of what you have in mind by a CMS system. >> >>>> I'm very interested in workiing with others on a CMS that can compete >>>> with any of the PHP varieties out there, such as Drupal and Wordpress. >>>> Most of these simply use plugins from one ore more javascript >>>> libraries out there for site creation, and Lift certainly can do >>>> javascript as well as, if not >>>> better than, these systems. >> >>>> Glenn... >> >>>> On Aug 15, 11:08 pm, philip <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>>> Hi, >> >>>>> Has anyone made a CMS for Liftweb? or I should say, in liftweb. >> >>>>> Thanks, Philip >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. 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