Hello, I am trying to build my own CMS for myself and my clients. The system will mainly be used for small websites < 10 pages. For bigger project I will most likely use an existing system(MojoPortals, Umbraco, Kooboo). The reason why I want my own system is so that I have full control and also because existing systems are mostly bloated...
I am trying to fix something in someone's website. Unfortunatley, the website is built on a CMS called GeekPak and is built in PHP. I know php a little but I am no expert in it. I've been trying to resolve the following for quite a while now. Problem: If you go on this page you will see a thumbnail gallery in bottom right. There ar...
I'm going to write a multi site content management system in ASP.NET. What will be faster: a database for every site, or one database for all sites? Thanks. EDIT: If a database for every site, which database should I use? XML? ...
Facing a need for a single CMS we can use for rapid deployment of customized CMS solutions, I am wondering if anyone can share any constructive feedback, experiences, pros and cons of this, seemingly powerful, piece of software. The whole story/marketing pitch sounds solid, and from a quick glance at the CMS itself things seem to be put...
Hi All, I have created a reddot cms component, in which I added this line Also, I created a dynament in livesever having name as SomeFileName.xml .The job it is doing is to fetch a table colum from a database. The query works well in SQL Server and also when I define the connector. But I am unable to get any data if I open the CMS p...
Hi all! I've added several pages (cms) in my magento admin panel. I know i can attach blocks to a specific page by using {{block..}} within the content field. However, i dont want to define blocks there, but within the cms.xml file. So other store admins are not annoyed by weird codes ({{block..}}) in the backend editor. I've defined ...
I'm looking to build a new project with Rails and I'm looking for a Ruby on Rails (as I know the framework) CMS or project that does mainly the following (so that I don't have to reinvent the wheel): Giving user the ability to make submissions that include text and links to videos/pictures. Users can vote stories up or down and flag i...
Hi all, I'm building a CMS application in PHP. How can I make it update itself? For example via a zip file or something similar. So that an user can see new releases and download / install them without using a FTP program at all. What's the best way to protect my application? So that the user can't share it with friends. I know that a...
Can anyone recommend a reasonably extensible asp.net CMS/DMS package or module that can be readily integrated into an existing c# Asp.net site (not MVC) with an existing forms authenticated membership via the membership provider and tables? Many thanx in advance for any tips/suggestions! ...
Hi to everyone. I was asked for my final degree project to build a custom SEO Content Management System; the point is that the request is to implement PageRank alghoritm for the inner search engine of this CMS, to order the results of the query by the PR. Is it possible? How may I start with this? The CMS is build on PHP and MySql (or P...
My company has a project to create a magazine style site with user profile functionality. We need: CMS for the article publishing. SEO Friendly urls. Commenting capability for the published articles. User profile system with limited social networking functionality (friends,friend messages,blog,account tweaking/personalization, article...
I am working on a cms and there are some simple parameters like number of posts per page, default color and style sheet, that are customizable by the user trough an UI. So what is the best way to store this settings in simple and secure way? Help is very appreciated. ...
There are lots of PHP framework available in the open-source community. Like: Zend, CakePHP, Codeigniter and .... But I don't find anyone of them as a CMS based framework. All the frameworks follows a particular design pattern and gives a strong PHP library to develop a website. Now most of the sites has a admin panel, user manageme...
I have been looking into Dependency Injection. Am I on to something or is it completely off? Is the code good or bad - Dependency Injection or not? The below code is the foundation for a CMS system Right now there is a table called "page_details" with all the web pages stored in it. Directory/file structure .htaccess index.php cla...
I am not a programmer, but a designer. I created a static web site in Dreamweaver (CS4) and my client would like to be able to update a news page on his own. I have looked in to several CMS options and haven't found one that seems to fit my needs. Mainly, simple to set up, possible to set up and, preferrably, free to set up. Any sugg...
I'm working on a few sites for professional photographers who want to be able to update on their own. I'm looking for a simple CMS solution that has very basic functionality as a gallery and is easy for them to work with. My main concern is with ordering images--I'd like for them to be able to drag their thumbnails around and lock the or...
Hay Guys, I'm about to dive in and create a CMS for all my future projects to be based off. I've looked at others about (wordpress, expression engine, etc) All of them have excellent features. I guess the basic question is: What do you guys think is a must have when developing a CMS? I've got the simples down. Media handling, Content H...
I have been requested by someone starting a non-profit organization to build their website. They basically want to have users be able sign up, create profiles, send messages, etc. and then have charities be able to do the same, but with different functionality (write blogs, post videos, etc). The users would look over each charity's ...
I know this question would have run across in the minds a lot of people till now, but let me rephrase it according to my doubts. Amongst some of the more popularly known CMS, what are some of the most distinctive features that make you use a particular one? Factors that you can consider are Flexibility (The degrees of websites that can...
It's perhaps a common task to create a subsection on site, which will reside under sitename.com/subpath. The subsection will contain own menu with a few links (Calendar view, Add MyEvent content type form, Table View). But clicking these links will lead out of this /subpath. Is there a know solution for this (to stay in subsection)? ...