cms

MVC for a CMS? What about themes?

Hi I understand what is MVC and CMS. I understand MVC pattern and how CMS should working. But I have problem with theming and the pattern. Example: When CMS is installed on serwer I want to change my homepage. I want to display some additional data. I change my homepage template and add a function call to pull data from DB. My new dat...

Is the Silverstripe CMS as easy to deploy, maintain, and develop on as it appears?

Although I haven't thought about deploying it on my own site, someone I know sent me a link to a CMS called SilverStripe that I've never heard of before. I read their site, looked at and played around with their demo, and so on. It looks like it's a CMS backed by a custom PHP framework that they call Sapphire. And from what I can gather ...

Recommendation needed for dynamic CMS / portal site system.

Hi, does someone know a script or product to create such a portal site like this: http://www.qkport.com/ This is actually a demo site of biznetic.com, but it seems like they don´t sell it anymore. Thanks. ...

What would be a good way to make a school library website? Language, Framework, CMS?

Im toying with the idea of offering to make my school a website for their library. I am an intermediate php programmer with advanced front end skills (started off as a designer). Was hoping someone would have some suggestions best way to approach the project. ...

Common CMS roles and access levels

I am currently writing a CMS and remember someone (it might have been on here) criticise the existing CMS for not having a robust enough user permissions system. I've got a method planned out but it I feel it has fallen into the usual trap of being a bit too fine-grained which makes understanding and implementing it a horror for end use...

RenderControl from within WCF service fails; ASMX works.

Good afternoon! I've spent half my day trying to figure this out; hopefully one of you can help. I have written a limited CMS and am working on allowing content from the CMS to be displayed as interstitial pages within external sites. To do this, I wanted to create a WCF service that would render the appropriate content and return it as...

Should this app based on CMS or WIKI, any good ruby open source app to recommend?

I may need to explain why I need a app first. Actually, I need a website which can store massive information and users can search through out the website, the functions I need are : admin should be able to add the articles or information in the app , start develop this app based on a wiki or a cms system, which one is better ? We hav...

Content Water Marking

We have members-only paid content that is frequently copied and republished without our permission. We are trying to ‘watermark’ our content by including each customer’s user id in a fake css class, for example <p class='userid_1234'> (except not so obivous, of course :), that would help us track the source of the copying, and then we p...

Which CMS features do you need in Rails?

I am going to write a ContentManagementSystem for RubyOnRails for administration of static pages. Which features do you prefer to appear in this CMS? What do you think might be helpful for daily work? Best regards ...

Vignette V8 Upgrade

Vignette upgrades are usually not straightforward. You basically have to do a new installation and migrate over all of your customizations etc. Does anyone know if the upcoming V8 version is easier to upgrade or if its easier to upgrade from a certain previous version compared to earlier version. So I can upgrade to an earlier version (s...

Is there a way to store a call to various PHP functions in a MySQL database without the risks of using eval()?

I'm building a very basic CMS for a specific project that contains numerous functions such as get_menu(), get_title(), get_recent(), etc. However, I want to be able to store templates, which would be echoed during page load, that contain said functions in the MySQL database. Doing a str_replace for each possible function would be a pit...

Rollback and Preview in a CMS

I am creating a CMS and am using serialize to handle publish and rollback, which seems to work fine. Basically, The normal site tables are what gets displayed and anything not displayed is serialized in a separate table. The problem however is in making the 'Preview' functions work. Since the front end is created using normal SQL ca...

Developing a DotNetNuke CMS website

I am a junior developer and I have just graduated from university this year. I am working private with some people and I have just been given a music website to develop using DotNetNuke. I have a some experience using DotNetNuke which I have gained making small modules that take care of certain functionality on a webpages but I have neve...

Multiple column articles in Joomla

I've got a client that requires that an article be displayed in two, sometimes three, columns in Joomla. I am fairly sure they won't be happy with having to edit 3 articles for 3 columns so the splitting would have to be done automatically. I've done something similar before where it'll split a chunk of HTML into n columns, but have ...

How hard is it to build CMS driven websites in WSS/MOSS?

We build CMS's with ASP.NET using tools such as Umbraco and DotNetNuke etc A client is asking us if we can build a site in WSS which I think is Windows Sharepoint Services. Are there any experienced MOSS people out there who can tell me how hard we would find this? Would it be just like learning another CMS? Or will it be a nightmare? ...

Looking for non-Rails content management system

I'm looking for a CMS writen in Ruby and not based on Ruby on Rails, are there some projects? ...

CrunchBase-like system

What's the best platform for creating a CrunchBase like system? (has to be open source). Thanks! ...

Simple question on DotNetNuke Module development

If you are developing multiple modules on a webpage displaying different things such as content like a bio or pictures based on a userId passed through the Query String. At page load should all modules on the webpage act independently and individually look at the query string and return the content based on the userId. And in the sam...

Hippo CMS & Jetspeed

I'm looking at a solution to manage my content between a website & intranet and was playing with Hippo CMS in combination with Jetspeed. It looks good, bus does anybody have any experience with this combination? And where do you shop for more portlets? ...

Media Sharing CMS Site

We are trying to build a media sharing site. I want to use existing commercial or open source frameworks if they are available. I saw some sites like: http://www.phpmotion.com/ http://www.jamroom.net http://www.clip-share.com/ http://www.videoscript.us http://www.vidiscript.com/ http://www.alstrasoft.com/videoshare.htm Are there an...