Is there a example of this as of yet?
On Aug 20, 1:03 am, David Pollak <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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
>
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