On 3/26/07, Alexy Khrabrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not to start any flames, but to compare -- also came across Mephisto, which uses Liquid for templates. Is Mephisto suitable for a newspaper too, and how does it compare with Radiant?
Content in Radiant is tree-based - all your pages are children of other pages, with the exception of home page which is root. Therefore, you can have rich content hierarchy organizing articles in branches, but you can't publish the same page under more than one branch. You can explicitly assign templates to each article, or let them inherit the template from their parent (default behavior). The killer feature (IMO) of Radiant is that pages can have multiple custom-named parts. There are also special types of pages: archive (adds blog-like dates to URLs), 404 not found, mailer ... Some of them are distributed via extensions. In Mephisto, things are more flat. Articles are organized in sections, and you can have a single article appear in multiple sections. You assign layouts to sections. You can have blog-like dates in URLs (based on your preference); sections can also have custom URLs. The killer features of Mephisto are overview (who logged in last, when, what changed recently, new user comments), asset manager and theme manager. Articles in Mephisto can only have two parts: "extended" and main. Authors in Mephisto cannot for some reason enter their full name to be displayed, just their usernames. Radius is slightly better documented than Liquid - you can even open up a Radius reference straight in the admin interface. Liquid is more beautiful for people who don't like XML-like templating languages. A recent enhancement to Mephisto enabled designers to code not only in Liquid, but in RHTML, Erubis or Haml. Both Liquid and Radius prevent potential malicious attempts - designers can't execute Rails code. I agree with John that Mephisto is a better blog engine (comments overview and approval, Askimet integration, sections, theme manager) while Radiant is a better CMS (simpler interface, rich hierarchy, flexibility). Still, there are Mephisto sites that don't look like blogs and Radiant sites that are blogs. It all comes down to your specific needs.
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