cms

.Net CMS with API to expose content

I am looking for a .Net CMS that allows me to expose pages/articles that are created in the CMS to other applications without querying the CMS database. Preferably this would be done through an API and by exposing them through a custom secured webservice. I know Sitefinity can do this. Do you know if Umbraco DotNetNuke can do th...

Drupal theme functions workflow in module

I am a bit newbie in Drupal theming and I can't get one detail in Forum modules theming. forum.module file contains forum_theme function that controls how this module is themed and has this line function forum_theme() { ...... 'forum_list' => array( 'template' => 'forum-list', 'arguments' => array('forums' => NULL, 'parents' => NUL...

Is info about Drupal RSS signups available?

Is info about Drupal RSS feed signups available? May be some special module? Or one only has to use feedburner? ...

Shell interface Hippo

Did anybody use the shell interface of Hippo (JCR Repository over rmi)? ...

joomla multiple site content distribution

I'm just starting to evaluate joomla CMS as a tool to build out my personal site. I'd like to manage multiple sites/domains with one copy of joomla on one host. so I'll own mysite.com and myothersite.com, which will both point to the same host/joomla code. If I do this I need to be able to set which domain/site the content I add shows up...

Best CMS for a T-Shirt catalog website

Hi my friend who's studying CSS wants to make a simple t-shirt catalog website. He also wants to include e-commerece in the future. What's an easy to learn CMS--preferrably in PHP--do you guys suggest for him? ...

CMS development

I'm new to this CMS techmology.My company is telling me to develop a CMS for multiple companies with the company info to be stored in the database.The second thing is this that they haven't given me the design of the CMS as well as the Main Website.The website look should be generic that suits any generic static website.I'm not able to f...

Drupal research strategy (custom or ready module)

When you get a description of some project that should be made with Drupal, and requires some extra-functionality (beyond core and most popular modules), how do you decide how're going to do it? Do you spend a day or two (or week?) searching for all possible modules, narrowing down the list? What is the cricial point to start writing o...

Calendar + Events in Drupal 5

"Events" module introduces Event content type, which has such two fields as event_start and event_end. While "Events" module has own calendar, I am need a few different calendars - so I chose Calendar module - which is based on Views. And here goes the problem: I create a new View, select View Type = Calendar, in Fields section listbox ...

Should i search content on database by id or name?

I have a CMS that has two menthods to query contents. One that queries by id and another one queries by the name of the content. ContentManager.Select(12); or ContentManager.Select("Content Name"); The way I see the first one would be faster, because the id is an index and doesn't invlove string comparison. While the second one is ...

Drupal : adding status field to node

What's the best way to create in Node additional status field that is a list of fixed string values, and is visible to users, but modifiable by admins only? I am limited to Drupal 5, but interested in Drupal 6 solutions too. ...

Drupal best practises for custom admin section

Is this a common task in your Drupal work when you're asked to create a custom admin section in Drupal for your content? For instance, you have a few content types and user wants not only to view them, but to search using different filters, to add new items - all inside the same admin subsection. In essense, this is classic search/gri...

Inserting a block within the body copy of an article with code or css

I developed a homemade CMS that posts articles and blog items, and I want to insert a block of Related News Items (basically, just a dynamic unordered list) that floats within the body copy of every article around the middle with text wrapping around it. Is there a best practice that someone knows for getting this done? I don't want the...

Add CMS functionality to an existing JSP website

I have an existing JSP website which I would like to painlessly add CMS functionality to. The site is a intranet portal and is backed by a database etc. however some pages like News and Events etc. I would like the user to be able to edit using a simple CMS. I would also like the user to be be able to create new pages and put them into...

Optimizing N2 CMS

N2 CMS is extremely slow to start up. From what I've heard, on the first JIT compile it loads all of itself into memory which takes 2 to 3 minutes on a fast system, but can take upwards to 10 on my local machine. This, of course, makes debugging extremely, extremely painful. Anyone know of anyway to optimize this? I've tried searching ...

What is the most performance effective way to create a sitemap.xml for any CMS system?

We want to implement a sitemap.xml feature in out CMS system. There is some argument within our developers that this feature will impact performance due to each time a change is done in the Content a full list of links of the site needs to be created and placed in the sitemap.xml. The idea is that each time a public viewing page is e...

Project structure recommendation for an opensource asp.net mvc project.

What do you think of the project structure for an opensource CMS application built on asp.net mvc application? The project nickname is "Gol". The basic requirements are outlined in the following posts. Ideas for OpenSource CMS in ASP.NET MVC Currently I am thinking of laying it down like this... Gol.Core.Session (contains session ...

Drupal: replacing field value in View

I have Drupal 5 View (must be "Views 1" so), which contains Event_StartTime field, which shows up normally for the fields that have a real date inside. But I also have a number of records with Event_StartTime field value like Dec 31 1969 - 8:00pm which looks bad in view and I need to replace them with some custom label, like "No Date Ava...

Free Content Management System as backend

I have a website built (Java/J2EE), and now I want to store documents in abundance. I want my website to use the CMS system, I do not want the CMS system to make a website. Sort of use CMS as a database, and have my current website be a front end to the docs. Any product recommendations, given I need to integrate it with an existing webs...

CMS vs Filesystem storage id scalability

Hi, Please consider the following: I am storing around 1.2 Million TIF files ranging from 40 KB to 120 KB in size. These documents are stored on a windows server with NTFS file-system. The documents are stored using the following variables: client document type image folder actual image See below: C:\<client_id>\<doc_type_id>\i...