June 26, 2008 - 9:27am
Thanks for the info...looking
Thanks for the info...looking into this as I am in need of a good CMS for several church sites and am on the verge of writing my own. I am so tired of being stuck in other peoples' "boxes" that I gave up on all the other CMS systems. But I am definitely willing to look into another as I honestly don't have the time to write my own, despite the need.
June 26, 2008 - 11:13am
@Jim: *cough*Seemes*cough*
@Jim: *cough*Seemes*cough* /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
I agree, though. Finding a CMS that you both like and that does what you need it to do is ridiculously hard. I still haven't really found the "perfect" solution, and even my own doesn't quite do all that I'd like with ease.
--- Mr. DOS
June 26, 2008 - 1:29pm
I have it installed, and
I have it installed, and playing around with it. It is pretty straight forward as to how it's set up. The code is easily edited to take out the cowbells (links in footer and on the source veiwed from the browser), without breaking the code. It won't run on php4, must be php5+ with mysql 5+. I would imagine that most shared hosting now offer both. They have pretty straight forward information between the docs and the forums to get it running. It's set up mainly for installing websites without any large amount of people logging in. You have to add a script or a forum to it to have it automatically add members. This is a good thing when you just want static content, rather than a community shared site.
June 26, 2008 - 1:35pm
Mr. DOS @ Jun 26 2008,
QUOTE(Mr. DOS @ Jun 26 2008, 11:13 AM)
@Jim: *cough*Seemes*cough* ![]()
/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
Would you like a cough drop? /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />
I looked at that Seemes.org, and it looks interesting as well. All straight html? Cool.
June 26, 2008 - 4:14pm
Seemes would not work for me
Seemes would not work for me as what I need is something that non-tech folks can get in and update things with. Also, I am unable to download the latest release from Sourceforge--I get errors decompressing both compression stylse...
As for SilverStripe, one of the things that draws me to it is that it is PHP >= 5.2. I am done with supporting PHP4. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
June 26, 2008 - 4:47pm
I've been playing around with
I've been playing around with it today. It's acting a little too buggy for me, after getting into it a little heavier. I think I'll try Seemes and see how that goes. I just want something that will speed up the process, not break the code, not throw out non compliant code, and actually works. If I wanted to code it all by hand, I wouldn't bother with trying this stuff out. But, on the other hand, with the time I'm wasting, I could've already had it done.
June 27, 2008 - 11:22am
@JAAulde: Gaaah, I hate SF.
@JAAulde: Gaaah, I hate SF. I've tried reuploading the bzip three times now, and it's corrupted it every time. The zip seems to be working, though. Anyway, have you tried WordPress? It's fairly easy, both in terms of theming and end-user operation. The only big problem I've noted with it is that it's kinda slow.
@Keith: Well, Seemes probably won't be of much use to you, unless you're going to write your own code. I've never heard of anything that dpes what you're trying to, though.
--- Mr. DOS
July 1, 2008 - 4:20pm
I know, but it would be nice
I know, but it would be nice if such an animal existed. It would be quite popular. There is one open source package that I do use, and find quite handy, to create a quick form, and have it uploaded to a database with submission. It's called Formtools:
http://www.formtools.org/download.php
You can have multiple clients with their own logins, and permissions.
I've used a lot of the cms systems out there, such as Joomla, Xoops, Drupal, phpNuke, phpwebsite, etc., as well as many different forum scripts like phpbb, SMF, Aeforum, etc. I was looking around for a simple open source solution to take a MS Word Document, turn it into a web page, integrate it with a database, and add drop down boxes to insert commonly used phrases, or insert a phrase into forms for our proposals at work, then be able to print them out as needed. I found this on mysql.com, and started reading about it. Sounds like this framework really simplifies a lot of coding:
http://www.silverstripe.com/overview/
You could certainly use this framework to build your own site integrated with a mysql database. I haven't installed it yet, or tinkered with it, but it has caught my attention. I might even try this out for my original intention.