FWIW... I got roped into hosting a CMS by the PTA of my kids' school. I may knock something together in Lift or leverage off the work Glenn has done.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Timothy Perrett <[email protected]>wrote: > > > 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 > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. 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