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mattsoftnet
February 20th, 2006, 23:55
I've been working on a php based cms for a few years now. mostly tweaking rewriting and learning. I was wondering what everyone else thinks a system would need to be "the best" content management system available. I've had commercial and enterprise quality in mind from the start, but also powerful features and modules. I just started rewriting the core from scratch last week and adding it to cvs as I go. any comments would be greatly welcomed!

btw, the system will be open source when it's ready, and once the core is in good working order, I'll be welcoming coder contributions and maybe free hosting for sites using the system.
Richard
February 21st, 2006, 02:27
Well. The option to intergrate with any forum (without editing source code) is a must for the "best" CMS. One that gets updated every 2 weeks (it will need this for part 1)

Also you must be able to have differant templates on differant pages, and make it really simple to add new pages (in it's own admin panel or one of the forums admin panel)

You must alow it to update itself. (Ever seen easyinstall for phpBB? It reads from a file and downloads all the files you need and edits existing) well you would need that and it can then update itself when a new update comes out (This can be overwrote by the admin!)

Just my 2 cent's :)
pdrucker
February 21st, 2006, 06:29
i agree with hosting-shack. the forum integration is important. I'd also say to make it easy to make adjustments to if its open source. I usually use xoops for my cms needs because it's fairly simple to change modules if they don't fit my liking.
Richard
February 21st, 2006, 06:52
:)

I've got a good understanding of PHP, if you need some help send me a line at: richard@hosting-shack.net. I could program that update feature i tould you about. And some modules.
mattsoftnet
February 21st, 2006, 14:13
I had ideas something like these, but you elaborated on them very nicely. I'll make sure your ideas are added to the cms.

Matt




Well. The option to intergrate with any forum (without editing source code) is a must for the "best" CMS. One that gets updated every 2 weeks (it will need this for part 1)

Also you must be able to have differant templates on differant pages, and make it really simple to add new pages (in it's own admin panel or one of the forums admin panel)

You must alow it to update itself. (Ever seen easyinstall for phpBB? It reads from a file and downloads all the files you need and edits existing) well you would need that and it can then update itself when a new update comes out (This can be overwrote by the admin!)

Just my 2 cent's :)
Tree
February 21st, 2006, 14:35
Forum integration would be great. Upon installation, have the user enter which forum software and have the CMS install script modify the software accordingly.
Paul White
February 21st, 2006, 15:57
So when you say integrate with a forum, do you mean like MK Portal?

http://mkportal.it
mattsoftnet
February 21st, 2006, 18:23
what is that script for? what's the point of it? I'm trying to install it now, but it's giving me some database trouble.


So when you say integrate with a forum, do you mean like MK Portal?

http://mkportal.it
Richard
February 27th, 2006, 14:49
mattsoftnet,

I've PMed you, but got no reply. You still looking for help?
TDK
February 27th, 2006, 15:07
I think subdreamer is the best!!
Richard
February 27th, 2006, 15:59
I think subdreamer is the best!!

Well. We may even be able to beat subdreamer :)
TDK
February 27th, 2006, 16:06
what are some of the features?
Richard
February 27th, 2006, 16:10
Well... Apart from it's not even started yet... But let me explain some of them (from the info i have)

It is able to intergrate with all major forums forum at the click of a button... No FTP file changes involved.

It auto updates (no more FTP file changes, or reuploading of files)

Install modules in one click
mattsoftnet
February 28th, 2006, 22:38
mattsoftnet,

I've PMed you, but got no reply. You still looking for help?

I'm still looking for help. I never get notified of anything on this forum. not sure why.
ChangAdam
March 1st, 2006, 02:13
somewhere on the top a place for a banner like 468x60 would be nice so someone could place there he's ad or someone elses who paid him for placing he's banner there.
needlehost
March 1st, 2006, 10:30
be able to easily change things, like for example, ads (as said above)
header, pictures, borders, basically: make the templates highly customabisle.
Also, make sure everything is cross resoloution.
mattsoftnet
March 26th, 2006, 10:44
smarty template engine?

I'm sure there are many people here you have more experience with smarty then I do. what are the pros and cons of it and should it be used in my cms? well.. now that I think about it, probably not. probably run into licensing issues. I had plans of a dual open source license something like sugarcrm. I'll be working on the template engine for the next few weeks, so I have to find the best way to do it.
stuffradio
March 26th, 2006, 23:31
dunno, but if I can I'd want to make my own template system... I want to make one for my blog... although I hear smarty is good, just don't know how to fully use it ;)
mattsoftnet
March 27th, 2006, 11:03
I made one before using classes and functions for the different blocks of html code. it works ok for me to use but I'm not happy enough with it to use it in public released copy of my project. I'd like to do something with tpl tags.



dunno, but if I can I'd want to make my own template system... I want to make one for my blog... although I hear smarty is good, just don't know how to fully use it ;)