Ah, nice, might I suggest contacting Glenn http://github.com/glennSilverman as he has a good start on it.
On Sep 19, 2:38 am, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Randinn <rand...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is there a example of this as of yet? > > No, but I'm planning to spend October (and perhaps part of November) > off-list (which is now consuming 3/4 of my day every day). A CMS is on my > to-do list. > > > > > > > On Aug 20, 1:03 am, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> > > 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 <timo...@getintheloop.eu > > >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" <ehar...@gmail.com> 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" <terry.le...@gmail.com> 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 <stefanscottal...@gmail.com> > > 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 <gl...@exmbly.com> 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 <philip14...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >>>>> Hi, > > > > > >>>>> Has anyone made a CMS for Liftweb? or I should say, in liftweb. > > > > > >>>>> Thanks, Philip > > > > -- > > > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > > > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > > > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > > > Git some:http://github.com/dpp > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > Beginning Scalahttp://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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