Forum OpenACS Q&A: Typo3 - The best I have seen so far

Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 06/28/04 11:48 AM

Hi all,

I came across an open source platform that seems to be one of the most promissing tools for CMS: Typo3 (GNU/GPL).

This platform seems to have everything. Here the feature list:
http://typo3.com/Feature_list.1243.0.html

Checkout the screenshots: http://typo3.com/Screenshots.1238.0.html

It is PHP&MySQL-based.

Work in progress:
-Workflow and Content Syndication
-Staging environment
-LDAP support
-Database abstraction
-Java-based alternative Rich Text Editor

List of reference:
The platform is used productively in many large companies.
http://typo3.com/References.1249.0.html

Greetings,
Nima

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Posted by Jun Yamog on 06/29/04 09:37 AM

Hi Nima,

It looks very good indeed. Hopefully we can implement some ideas.

3: Re: Typo3 - The best I have seen so far (response to 1)

Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 07/08/04 04:34 PM

I have been on the CMS booth at Linuxtag and the general agreement there is: If you need a CMS system, go with Typo3. I think we can and should learn from them, maybe meet up on an OSCOM conference as well, but in the end we have to be aware that the focus of OpenACS is larger. So, if you work with a client on a CMS like site you might want take a look at Typo3 first and get some ideas there.

Furthermore, to my knowledge the OSCOM people are writing a new WYSIWYG editor that we should be able to incorporate as well in exchange for htmlarea.

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Posted by Jarkko Laine on 07/09/04 10:57 AM

Malte,

The editor you're talking about is probably Kupu (http://kupu.oscom.org/). I haven't really tested it but DaveB said it's a lot better than htmlarea, and that he had made some experiments to hook it up with OpenACS.