Hi Bernhard,
Could you perhaps join the symfony-cms group? There, people are
discussing the formation of a new symfony-based CMF (Content
Management Framework). Whether or not this will work the same as you,
it is still interesting to get as much feedback as possible on that
list concerning your ideas about the CMS.
Sincerely,
Stefan
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:03 AM, Bernhard Schussek <bschus...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi fellow symfonians,
>
>
> I want to speak a little bit about a plugin that I currently work on
> and get some feedback about it from you.
>
>
> I was always rather unhappy with prebuilt CMS, as customization or the
> integration of modules with lots of business logic is mostly rather
> hard. Additionally, many of the CMS don't offer the functionality to
> develop custom modules as symfony does.
>
> Now there is a plugin for symfony that achieves some of the typical
> CMS functionality: sfSimpleCMSPlugin. It is very easy to modify the
> texts of a website, even for not so web-affine users. Again it is
> rather hard to integrate custom symfony modules in the CMS. And if you
> do so, you loose all the features like inline editing, comfortable
> website translation and so on.
>
> In this plugin I turned the whole approach around. Instead of trying
> to build your custom modules into a prebuilt CMS, you can equip the
> modules themselves with CMS functionality. You can declare "slots" in
> a template that you can edit directly in the frontend, if you are
> logged in. These slots are extendable and can contain headings, rich
> text, images or whatever you can think of.
>
> <h1><?php sf_manager_slot('heading') ?></h1>
> <div><?php sf_manager_slot('image', 'image') ?></div> // custom slot types
>
> As soon as you declare these slots, they are immediately editable in
> the frontend. Translators can internationalize these slots directly
> without having to enter some administration interface. Apart from
> that, you can edit the title of the page and the position of the page
> in the site tree comfortably in a sidebar. This website structure can
> be used to automatically display navigations and breadcrumbs in your
> layout.
>
> Another feature I want to integrate is the translation of XLIFF
> interface texts of the current page in the sidebar. I think this is
> more comfortable for translators since they see the texts directly in
> the website context while being able to edit them.
>
>
> What's the big deal, you might say. Just another CMS. But I don't
> think so. You retain the full flexibility of symfony while being able
> to pour some CMS on it :-)
>
>
> I will post more information about this plugin as soon as it's
> available. I do also plan to post tutorials about possible uses of it.
>
>
> And now I would love to hear some feedback from you, whether you like
> it or hate it, whether you'd like to see any specific features... you
> know the deal. :-)
>
>
> Bernhard
>
> >
>
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