I am planning to use MongoDB for building a CMS application. The two choice for CMS platforms being Joomla and Drupal. while Drupal seems to have http://drupal.org/project/mongodb support. I was not able to find good support for Joomla. Can anyone share your experience/thoughts of using Joomla on MongoDB ?
For Joomla have a look at:
Joomla and Mongodb (a bit old)
sml4joomla libraries
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I developed previous web-applications with Orchard CMS and I enjoyed working with it. Now I started to create an E-commerce application and found out that Orchard has some modules for this so installed the Virto-commerce module but I'm starting to notice the lack of functionalities.
For example I can not figure out (lack of documentation) how to place attribute filters on de products page. Is it even possible?
Can the module be used to create a fully functional webshop like http://demo.virtocommerce.com/electronics/camcorders or is it very limited with just basic functionally?
The module for CMS Orchard is really simple and was developed only for demo-purposes - just to show that it is possible to use VirtoCommerce API with Orchard. So, for now this module has very limited functionality - only placing widgets on corresponding pages - and can not be used for creating a real-world e-commerce web site.
Actually we are open for your suggestions about integration VirtoCommerce and CMS Orchard.
I am currently looking for informations about eZ Publish Community version and its limits to develop a public portal.
Furthermore:
Can I use Oracle database? Should I prefer ezoracle to any Symfony extension?
Can I integrate an antivirus solution? If yes which one?
Can I use 2 different instances, one to write and export contents, and another one to import and update contents?
Which newsletter system do you suggest?
Is back-end IE8 and IE9 compatible?
Can I (de)activate contact forms on demand?
Can I integrate a more powerful anti-spam solution than visual CAPTCHA? (ex: reCAPTCHA)
Can the webmaster modify layout elements, such as logos, bannes, aso.
Thank you for your help!
Latest community version is using Doctrine DBAL (through new stack) which supports Oracle. But so far there is no information that someone tried it as the Doctrine support is quite new. ezoracle extension is a legacy extension which might be used but not if new stack is being utilised.
Anti-virus solutions are not something that makes sense to integrate with CMS-es. Those are either client software (CMS runs on web servers) or server side software which is installed on the web server and monitors uploaded files.
You probably describe a content staging kind of setup for which there is no out-of-the-box solution. But the CMS is quite flexible and some solution could be possible to develop.
Solid and integrated one is the cjw_newsletter, but its legacy based. There is nothing similar in the new stack, there might be some Symfony based bundles that could be integrated but would require some development effort. Depends on the integration needed. If not much integration is needed external services are an option
Legacy admin interface is, for the new editor UI which is under development at the moment I am not sure what will be the oldest IE supported. IE8 probably not, maybe just with graceful degradation.
If you mean legacy collected info based forms yes. You can hide the node of the forms for example. In new stack there are no similar implementation yet.
Yes, although it would probably require some web development knowledge. If you use legacy collected info forms you can try to install some of the existing legacy extension that deal with that (e.g. http://projects.ez.no/recaptcha) but to do it in new stack (Symfony based) you will probably need to dig deeper with Symfony Forms and custom controllers or find and integrate bundles that implement this
This depends on how the front-end is implemented. If done properly it should be possible, yes
For more detailed help feel free to use the community forum: http://share.ez.no/forums/ez-publish-5-platform
I need to create a blog for my student organization at my university, and we have access to a folder on the school's AFS system. We would like to install a CMS such as WordPress or Drupal and then interface with that via a blogging client to streamline updating the website. We can My only experience with any CMS is developing an Android app that connects to a Drupal powered blog, so I'm familiar with some of its features.
Any thoughts on the best way to go about creating this blog?
Drupal has 2 core modules that can help you with this, Blog and Blog API. Using both of these modules, you will be able to update blogs on your Drupal site through a blogging client.
Another Drupal user has created a video about blogging with Drupal's Blog and Blog API which you can see HERE.
"Best" is always super subjective.
If what you want is a standard, robust blog functionality quickly with minimal learning curve, you want Word Press. If what you want is a flexible, robust blog functionality with room to scale out and add more functionality over time you might want to make the larger and slower investment of going with Drupal.
Speaking as a Drupal Developer myself, I would reach for Drupal because I favor building with future flexibility in mind, but then I've already defeated the learning curve.
I only know Wordpress and have started to seek another alternative framework, Zend. I have heard hearsay that Zend is better than other frameworks. If you are "a serious coder", or try to act like one, you need to use it for building your web app.
Some say Zend is better but it is subjective. It is fast and secure but nobody has given a reason or at least compared it with with Wordpress.
Ultimate question : Does Zend have themes or plugins just like Wordpress ?
Any hint will be helpful
edit. maybe it's stupid, but it's a question. if you don't like it, or you feel it's offensive then down-vote. I don't mind ;). No hard feelings
You're comparing apples and oranges. Wordpress is not a framework, it's a publishing tool. The only thing you can do with Wordpress is make blogs.
A framework is a set of code that provides you with tools to build things. Zend Framework is a web framework that lets you build web applications. In fact, you could build Wordpress using Zend Framework (and it would probably be way better than its current sad design). You could build any other kind of site with Zend Framework. What Zend doesn't do is provide you with a bunch of pre-built web pages and templates and content management systems... those are all publishing tools (which you could build with a framework).
In short, you can't build a web app with Wordpress, since it's not a framework, and Zend doesn't have themes because it's a coding tool.
You are asking the difference between Ferrari and the tomato. Both are red, but…
Zend Framework is a Framework
Wordpress is a Blog software
You may write app like Wordpress using ZF, but not vice versa.
Wordpress is a content management system. It is much more specialized than Zend, which is a generic application framework.
You could build a cms with Zend for example. But you would have to build it from the ground.
I dissagree that Wordpress is not a framework. As a developer you can develop plugins into wordpress that can do some pretty neat things. Okay, you may say that wordpress is not a framework itself, but it does provide a development framework that allows developers to tap into. True it started life as blogging software, but to limit wordpress to only blogs is not doing wordpress the justice it deserves.
Zend_Framework on the other hand is completely different to wordpress. Zend_Framework will help your web development, but it wont do it for you. Where wordpress will work as a content management system/blog out of the box leaving the developer with a plugin framework to allow you to build custom modules and code that will run within wordpress, Zend_Framework will expect you to build everything from scratch. Sure it will provide some helper classes to help you along the way, but its up to the developer to pretty much write their entire application from scratch using Zend tools.
Personally speaking if you want complete and utter control over your entire application, and want to do everything from scratch with some help from Zend, then Zend_Framework is a tool you might want to investigate. If however you just want a website with a little customisation, then wordpress is a very good tool for that.
But the two dont compare side by side, they are different solutions for different problems.
Zend is an application framework. WordPress is a buggy blog manager. If you don't know the difference, then you probably have no reason to use Zend.
There appears to be a project called Zendpress to create a Wordpress-like blog platform built on Zend Framework. Strikes me as a great idea, though at present, there doesn't seem to be any significant activity there.
If you are a coder you can use Wordpress to build any web apps easily. Zend framework is the old fashion way to build web based apps. To this date, Wordpress is getting more powerful and flexible which you can use on any web developments. It is not only a CMS.
I have this idea boggling my head since a long time.
As a developer, I get a lot from the community and feel like giving back something to the community.
And after knowing and working on Joomla i found Joomla CMS as the most flexible, easy and user friendly cms.
As a developer, I like most of the features of it.
Now, i want to have a asp.net version of joomla, available free to the community.
I wanted to start it from scratch and it would be a copy/same as joomla.
Would that be a good idea to go with it?
Are there any CMS (same as Joomla) available in asp.net?
I would like to have suggestions and advice from my community developers.
Critics are welcomed ;)
SIA
Checkout CMSWire. They have the language platform for most of the CMS packages along with a bunch of other attributes.
I think every web developer writes a CMS at some point in their career. I'm working on one right now. But a project the size of Joomla or Dotnetnuke is way too big for one person, even fulltime.
Btw, my favorite CMS ( based of demos ) that I've seen so for is Umbraco.
I've had the same idea as well but like people say it is a huge task.
However it's not as big as creating a CMS in a language like PHP from scratch becuase you can use features like rich data controls, Membership, profiles, themes, masterpages, webparts etc.
For that reason I would not een bother trying to convert joomla's php to c# but rather create a feature list and write code from that.
The only CMS that I've found comes close to joomla is Kentico mainly because of the use of webparts.
You might look at DOTNETNUKE (http://www.dotnetnuke.com/).
That is the only major .NET based CMS that I know of. I also use Joomla and have used DOTNETNUKE as well and they offer many of the same features. If .NET is the way you need to go, this is really the only .NET CMS Open Source player out there.