Content Management Systems

[skiv]

Hi, guys

My question is about the CMS (content management systems)
Do you use any in your work? Well, there are a lot of them on the market, free and paid, many different realizations and versions.

BUT

Doing many small projects, I cant use, say, Typo3 which size is >10MB
And doing a small 3-4 pages script I wont use, say, Smarty, I just use header.php and footer.php - you know what I mean.

So, generally, my question is - do you use any CMS in your work?
Any huge but cool one?
Any tiny and simple one?

Please dont just mention the name, but provide a link and the reason, and any thoughts that you have on this task.
Thanks a lot

[dcm]

Hi, guys

My question is about the CMS (content management systems)
Do you use any in your work? Well, there are a lot of them on the market, free and paid, many different realizations and versions.

BUT

Doing many small projects, I cant use, say, Typo3 which size is >10MB
And doing a small 3-4 pages script I wont use, say, Smarty, I just use header.php and footer.php - you know what I mean.

So, generally, my question is - do you use any CMS in your work?
Any huge but cool one?
Any tiny and simple one?

Please dont just mention the name, but provide a link and the reason, and any thoughts that you have on this task.
Thanks a lot
content management system? i dont know any which we can use for small site.. we can use dreamweaver template system for small sites or ssi templates

[bes island]

I prefer creating original CMS for each particular project myself.

[skiv]

I prefer creating original CMS for each particular project myself.
Really?
I am doing this too, but, actually, having a lot of projects makes this horrible.

[skiv]

Any other suggestions?

[tdadigital]

We have played with this CMS script some and find it really does all we want and more.

We have a client we are doing a project for and his feelings are the same.

Also, it’s pretty easy to edit to suit your needs, give it a look at:

http://www.echoarticles.com/echoarticles/demo/adminpanel.php

User ID =’s test
Password =’s test

[dcm]

We have played with this CMS script some and find it really does all we want and more.

We have a client we are doing a project for and his feelings are the same.

Also, it’s pretty easy to edit to suit your needs, give it a look at:

http://www.echoarticles.com/echoarticles/demo/adminpanel.php

User ID =’s test
Password =’s test
yeah.. this is good script..

[tdadigital]

A general question, we have been awarded a project where out client is really hot on these scripts and wants us to implement them in our web sites for her.

What we would like to know is, if anyone has ever used scripts from this organization, and if so, what are your comments about Easy Site Network scripts?

Their URL is:

http://www.easysitenetwork.com

Thanks,
Tom

[blowndeadline]

I have used a pretty clean CMS called Subdreamer. Very easy to integrate with many BB systems and it's pretty cheap as well.
Subdreamer (http://subdreamer.com)

Mike

[rem]

I agree with bes island here... Sometimes already made CMSs could be to hard to use for a non technical user. Not all of our clients are very proeficient on playing with this stuff... Sometimes it can be hard even for some of us to edit a huge CMS to output a very simple site or otherway.

So, the best idea is to develop one original, ready to use in all kind of sites and only with the needed features, right?

I am not a very experienced programmer, actually I am more into design then PHP, ASP or Pearl but sometimes you have to know how to do it all (or at least, something more)... It's pretty bad when you have to say "I'm sorry, but I'll have to pass, I don't know any programming language..." At least I don't want to limit myself on design, even this is what I like to do most...

Any gain of knowledge is a step further and this job means a lot for me.

So, now I am working on a CMS script using PHP and MySQL but I got stuck.
Can anybody give me a link to a tutorial or something like that, where I can find the explanation on how on earth can be automatically generated a new PHP page?

Let's say that we have a 5 pages website and using the CMS the user must be able to generate the 6th... I already know how to edit the links from the menu, text, pictures, header, footer, etc... but how can be generated the page itself?

Thank you for reading this and thank you in advance for your answer.

Best regards,
Rem

[iojam]

rem
You're going in a wrong way. CMS is a "Content Management System" and not "Code Management System" :)
So you shouldn't be able to create new PHP pages, but managing data. And new site's pages are generated by the same scripts using different data sources. Basically, all changes are applied to the database only.
So, you will think about creating new PHP files when you need different functionality in your site and it's unlikely that they will be "generated automatically" - Automatic code generation is a far more advanced topic and has nothing with CMS ;)

[rem]

Thank you, at least I have a starting point... It's very logical to use a single template and to change the content within by use of PHP and MySQL...

Thank you for your time once again but would I be too pushy if I'd kindly ask you to explain this in just a few lines?

[iojam]

Every CMS consist of two major parts: authoring subsystem (or admin section) that allows to manage site's content and content delivery part, that shows this content to end users.
You will feel purpose and functions required for each part when you will really need to build CMS. :)

You can start your journey from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

[rem]

Thank you Oleg

I think that I have a long way to go... Hope I'll be able to come back with smarter questions... :)

All my best,
Rem.