Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
You are referring to this page : http://www.opensourcecms.com/ Regards, Kim Steinhaug - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://www.easywebshop.no/ - Original Message - From: Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Erik Gyepes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice On Mon, August 22, 2005 3:48 am, Erik Gyepes wrote: Zachary Kessin wrote: I am about to start on a project that seems like it would be right for a CMS system. It will be about 80% rather boring stuff with about 20% custom database work. I have looked at XOOPS and a few others. However I can not seem to find one rather important thing about XOOPS. I understand how to use a module that someone else wrote, but I have not found any documentation on how to build my own blocks or application components. I am not yet committed to XOOPS, so if there is different system that would be better that could work as well There is a pretty cool site out there that lets you kick the tires on a BUNCH of different PHP/MySQL CMS products/projects. opencms.org or something like that. I always have a tough time finding it with Google and whatnot, but it's there. Anyway, they basically installed a couple dozen CMS systems, and you can set yourself up with your own sandbox install on THEIR server with just a click of a button, then administer it and play with it, and then they wipe it out in about 2 hours. So you get a chance to play with it to see if you like each CMS, and you've got 2 hours to check it out -- Or more, since you can start over with a new sandbox. They just don't want you to try to run your site through theirs. I doubt that it will actually let you write/upload arbitrary PHP for the missing 20%, but they MIGHT have some examples or user comments on their site on these issues, and at least you can play with the 80% to see if the features you need for that part are there. HTH -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
opencms.org or something like that. It is http://www.opensourcecms.com/ Raz -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
On Mon, August 22, 2005 3:48 am, Erik Gyepes wrote: Zachary Kessin wrote: I am about to start on a project that seems like it would be right for a CMS system. It will be about 80% rather boring stuff with about 20% custom database work. I have looked at XOOPS and a few others. However I can not seem to find one rather important thing about XOOPS. I understand how to use a module that someone else wrote, but I have not found any documentation on how to build my own blocks or application components. I am not yet committed to XOOPS, so if there is different system that would be better that could work as well There is a pretty cool site out there that lets you kick the tires on a BUNCH of different PHP/MySQL CMS products/projects. opencms.org or something like that. I always have a tough time finding it with Google and whatnot, but it's there. Anyway, they basically installed a couple dozen CMS systems, and you can set yourself up with your own sandbox install on THEIR server with just a click of a button, then administer it and play with it, and then they wipe it out in about 2 hours. So you get a chance to play with it to see if you like each CMS, and you've got 2 hours to check it out -- Or more, since you can start over with a new sandbox. They just don't want you to try to run your site through theirs. I doubt that it will actually let you write/upload arbitrary PHP for the missing 20%, but they MIGHT have some examples or user comments on their site on these issues, and at least you can play with the 80% to see if the features you need for that part are there. HTH -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
Everyone has already told you about opensourcecms.org, which is a really good site to test things out. However, about 6 months ago I had to do research for the same kind of thing. As of now with the split of the Mambo dev team from the parent company Miro I think I would go with Dupral because who knows when Mambo or whatever the fork of Mambo by the dev team is going to back on it's feet again. Even with that said I've been working with Mambo for about 6 months as well and I must say it's the easiest CMS that I have ever worked with. The component/module coding is a no brainer and the documentation is pretty good (it was getting better but with the dev team gone who knows). At any rate I would say check out Dupral, Mambo, and XOOPS. Then decide what you need and which one has the most features that you need. I choose Mambo for the fast development of customization of features, the huge community (that now seems split), and the vast number of 3rd party modules that have already been written. :) On Aug 21, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Zachary Kessin wrote: I am about to start on a project that seems like it would be right for a CMS system. It will be about 80% rather boring stuff with about 20% custom database work. I have looked at XOOPS and a few others. However I can not seem to find one rather important thing about XOOPS. I understand how to use a module that someone else wrote, but I have not found any documentation on how to build my own blocks or application components. I am not yet committed to XOOPS, so if there is different system that would be better that could work as well --Zach -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
On 23 Aug 2005, at 14:05, Jay Paulson wrote: I would say check out Dupral, Mambo, and XOOPS. Drupal looks great, but whenever I've tried to get into it, nothing seems to work properly. Xoops is capable (I've used it on a couple of sites), but generally a complete mess internally. Both of them have massive, cryptic control panels and it's inordinately complicated to do simple things like put this bit of text at the top of the front page. Unless you want your site to look and work like everyone else's Nuke clone, I'd steer clear of these. The majority of so-called content management systems actually fail dismally at managing content. I don't know why they even use the name. For simple sites, Website Baker is great, especially if the intended admin wants little hassle. It's one of the few that seems to put a strong emphasis on usability over feature bloat. Marcus -- Marcus Bointon Synchromedia Limited: Putting you in the picture [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.synchromedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
Zachary Kessin wrote: I am about to start on a project that seems like it would be right for a CMS system. It will be about 80% rather boring stuff with about 20% custom database work. I have looked at XOOPS and a few others. However I can not seem to find one rather important thing about XOOPS. I understand how to use a module that someone else wrote, but I have not found any documentation on how to build my own blocks or application components. I am not yet committed to XOOPS, so if there is different system that would be better that could work as well --Zach Nucleus seems to be good CMS too, see the: http://nucleuscms.org/. Erik -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
Zachary Kessin wrote: I am about to start on a project that seems like it would be right for a CMS system. It will be about 80% rather boring stuff with about 20% custom database work. I have looked at XOOPS and a few others. However I can not seem to find one rather important thing about XOOPS. I understand how to use a module that someone else wrote, but I have not found any documentation on how to build my own blocks or application components. I am not yet committed to XOOPS, so if there is different system that would be better that could work as well --Zach Nucleus seems to be good CMS too, see the: http://nucleuscms.org/. Erik -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
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[PHP] Looking for CMS advice
I am about to start on a project that seems like it would be right for a CMS system. It will be about 80% rather boring stuff with about 20% custom database work. I have looked at XOOPS and a few others. However I can not seem to find one rather important thing about XOOPS. I understand how to use a module that someone else wrote, but I have not found any documentation on how to build my own blocks or application components. I am not yet committed to XOOPS, so if there is different system that would be better that could work as well --Zach -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Looking for CMS advice
I would check out Mambo: _http://mamboserver.com_ (http://mamboserver.com) - Clint
