[PHPwestoz] CMSs/web applications - opinions?

[moosecat at moosecat.com.au]

Quoting Sol <sol at terminus.net.au>:

Some possible ways to to things - the way I do it - or have thought about doing
it...
Ability to use modules.., self installing etc.
If modules are placed into a directory - you can easily read this directory &
dyamically include the files...  you can go a step further & list them in the
admin area an have a flag to switch them on/off (flag in the database - again
they can add an entry in the module table them selves when they are loaded).
A standard array could set many of the configs - or be used to generate a form
to ask the right values via the admin - or get them straight from the core
config.

spell check, image/doc management, template engine are available as open source
- you could include these in your project & contribute back to the other
projects.... I have seen a spell check in phpclasses that can be run without
all the extras that phpspell requires...  I think this is important as if you
are building a CMS that can be run on many platforms servers...  you have to be
a bit carefull on the requirements... or have the ability for the system to know
what it has & what is does not & switch things on-off as nessicary....

One thing that many wiki's have that is cool is a Diff function.... this is a
good ideal if version control was there too....

User priverages can easily be handled with a user table, login, & extra flag in
a table...  by the way any one know any good references to software logic
patterns...  have not used them yet...  but very good idea if you were to build
a CMS from scratch.  Would help that non-reinventing the wheel too.

Another thing a missed was self install of the CMS it self ... fi you want other
developers to take this up... especially if they don't know a great deal of
php....  they want things easy...  otherwise you will be installing all the
time... and not developing (I know....  all I do is install CMS's - never any
time to develope...)

Hope I have not written too much - or gone in to too detail for this list...

Any way good luck - lunch time....(in Sweden)

Regards

Sean
MooseCat


>
>
> > Couple of things I thing are important are:
> >
> > Ability to add modules without touching the core code - but modules
> able to use
> > functions of core code (& developer guidelines for module development)
> - mable
> > self installing - eg CMS looks in a directory and can use module with no
> > configuration
>
> Oooh, now you're talking. No idea how you'll do it, but sounds good. ;)
> One thing that appeals to me as a cms user, is the ability to share
> users/passwords/privileges with other systems. I think that phpbb can
> share users with zen cart. To me, this is very practical - in fact I'm
> thinking of doing exactly this right now - as I'm more likely to want to
> use different "specialty apps" for each section of a site. That's me
> anyways.
> > Developer / end user documentation
> Good.
> > Spell check
> > Priverledges (you can see why I wanted the spell check)
> > check in- check out of pages
> > Document management
> > Image Management
> > Template engine - so the CMS can be easily customised
>
> With regard to these last four points, have you thought of maybe
> grabbing some wiki code and working from there?? Some wikis have these
> features, but of course no real user & privilege system. May help to
> prevent reinventing the wheel. Just a thought.....
>
> /sol
>
>
> >
> > Those are a few anyway...
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Samuel Cochran <sj26 at sj26.com>:
> >
> > > I'm out to write my own CMS, and before you say "you and every other
> > > person..." i want you to know it's something different.
> > >
> > > something based on a truly granular permission system from phpBB 2.1.x,
> > > using advanced user/group functionality - but what makes it different is
> > > it's object and advanced JIT caching system. This is not just a CMS but
> > > a web application framework that scales from the most basic user wanting
> > > a simply page-based site to a complex multi-functionality commercial
> > > site with forums/groupware/webmail/etc.
> > >
> > > I'm looking for ideas as to what functionality will be required
> > > (although I have a fairly good idea) and wondered if you guys have any
> > > favourite CMSs/web applications with special functionality that you
> > > think should be incorporated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -- Samuel Cochran
> > >    sj26 at sj26.com
> > >    +61 4 15441909
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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