Forum OpenACS Development: Re: CMS forms + widgets versus Classified Ads

9: Re: CMS forms + widgets versus Classified Ads (response to 1)

Posted by Dave Bauer on 06/19/03 01:03 AM

Tammy,

Are you customizing the existing CMS package? Basically any parts of CMS that are generally useful should be moved into a seperate service package. Some of the parts might belong in the content repository, and some others might be generally useful as part of acs-templating. Others might be more specific to a content management system. It is my goal to end up with a package that provides CMS service to another package that presents the CMS user interface.

I am going to be working on ETP in the next couple of weeks to bring it more in line with standard content repository features. I am also coordinating with Jun and his BCMS package (in contrib) so that we can eventually have a clear set of tools for building a CMS.

10: Re: CMS forms + widgets versus Classified Ads (response to 9)

Posted by tammy m on 06/19/03 03:05 AM

Hi Dave,

Great news that ETP + BCMS + CMS are being worked on:) It'd be so great to have a working CMS system with a basic UI like Typo3, Plone or some such with OACS.

I'm not customizing existing CMS. Here's what I have done so far. Hold on it's not pretty. I am using existing CMS tcl/sql procs AND Classified Ads (from Deds) tcl/sql procs in a package I am making for myself. So far the Classified Ads procs all use the CMS procs and expand on that concept with widgets that work for me.

What I could do is pull out the procs I'm using from Classified Ads, make them a little more generic (wouldn't take much, they are pretty usable even from another package so far!) and put them in a new package of their own. If that would make it any easier for you to see what worked and didn't work in CMS for me.