I'm looking for a symfony-based CMS, and I have heard about Diem and Apostrophe, but none of them offers all of the features I am searching for.
In your opinion, which of these CMS' is the most easy to extend? Do you know any other Symfony-based CMS I would want to consider?
EDIT : By 'to extend' I mean adding probably unsupported features, like Pdf rendering, adding menu from another sf application, content creation through web services... and all sort of special stuff my client would want.
Both Diem and Apostrophe will allow you to extend quite easily.
It is just a matter of selecting the base that best suits you.
Apostrophe already has many of those features. Check out Apostrophe engines.
Related
I know almost nothing about this sort of thing, so please forgive the newbie question.
I want to put together an open-source online literature annotation system. I hear this sort of thing is easier to do with frameworks like Drupal or Django, but I don't know very much about them. I found some Drupal plugins that handle text annotation. Is that the best way to go?
Oh by the way, if anyone is interested in contributing, please contact me, because I could use all the help I could get. I've been putting up ideas at http://hyperlit.tiddlyspace.com/
Annotator by Open Knowledge Foundation might do what you want - used by OpenShakespeare...dual MIT/GPL, code is on Github, has a couchdb backend but you can develop your own storage since it is separate from the javascript annotation tool.
I have an idea to use drupal as a document repository and integrate okfn annotator but very much an idea, not a project (yet) - my particular use case is commenting on legislation/draft legislation.
For Drupal, these potentially might do what you want (in various states of development/functionality):
Open Review
Yellow
marker
discussions on Marginalia but no
movement
Sticky Notes and other older modules did not fit my use case
[ http://drupal.org/project/sticky_notes ]
EDIT: Commentpress for wordpress might get you up and running quickly with limited features.
I'm doing a project and asp.net is one of my possible choices (the other one being php). I need to implement some semantic functionality to improve searches.
I know some php frameworks support semantics but i want to know if asp.net has any[The most used] tool (3rd party or built in) that will also support this.
I've been reading more about this subject and i think what i'm really looking for is tools in order to deliver more accurate results to user searches by not only matching word but its meanings.
I'm sorry if the semantic web term caused confusion but my guide teacher called it like that
You should look into dotNetRDF and ARC PHP.
Other good resources
Executive’s Quick Start Guide to Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web
RDF Primer
Wikipedia: Semantic Web
RDFa Primer
That last one is about the recommended way to markup HTML with semantic meaning. Improving your search results to include meaning can be done a number of ways and may or may not include using the semantic web technology stack per se. Perhaps you only mean adding tags to blogs, or faceted searching such as that provided by SOLR. You may need to clarify what kind of searching you want to do.
As others have said you need to clarify what you want to do, while you have clarified your question a little it is still not clear whether you actually need a full Semantic Web technology stack.
Your project may be completely doable without any Semantic Web tech just using standard text indexing systems like Lucene and SOLR. I'm fairly sure both of these are available in .Net, I'm not a PHP developer myself so not sure if there are usable PHP equivalents.
If you need a full Semantic Web technology stack then either of the options harschware has suggested are good (disclaimer - I develop dotNetRDF). Whether they actually do what you need them to do depends on what parts of the Semantic Web technology stack you need. Both have good RDF and SPARQL support but minimal OWL support.
"Semantic Web" just means using the appropriate html tags for their defined (semantic) purpose. This is accomplished by not ignoring less-used tags (label, legend, fieldset, cite, etc), using table only for tabular data, and especially not using div or span when more-specific tags are really a better fit... things like that.
With this in mind, of course asp.net supports a semantic web. You can put any html you want into asp.net pages. MVC makes this easier, but you can do it with webforms, too.
With that constraint out of the way, my standard advice when beginning a new project is to start with what you know. If you already know php or asp.net, stick with that. It will allow you to be a lot more productive, more responsive to issues, and make fewer mistakes than you will if you're learning a new platform from scratch.
Bit of a vague question. Apologies.
I have a prototype CMS I've been working on for fun. It's completely written in ASP.NET MVC.
It works on the principle of "widgets". Little blocks of functionality that can be dragged and dropped on the page, you get the idea.
I have added a few simple blogging widgets which work well, one of them is the "Latest Posts" widget that goes on the front page. While the function of the widget i.e. listing the latest posts is standard, the mark-up it generates may not be. I don't want to force my users into a set in stone mark-up.
I was wondering if it would be possible to use some form of templating perhaps T4? I have not delved into it deeply but it looks fairly complex, so not sure it would even be possible. What I would like is for the end-user to be able to doctor a small template file to change the markup generated for each blog post list item.
If someone knows of any blogs/tutorials that may get me started I'd be very grateful. Googling for custom T4 templates brings up changes to the EditorFor templates that I'm sure everyone is familiar with.
Thanks,
Ian
Best idea I've ever seen on this would be to use standard ASP.NET templates and dynamically render them. You don't have to invent a programming language nor tooling and the hard parts are done for you. This perhaps could be easy to do with the new razor view syntax I'd suspect.
I'm searching for a way to put widgets from several services (PicasaWeb, Yahoo Pipes, Delicious bookmarks, etc.) on the community site I host on Plone (currently 3.2.1). I'm looking for a way to allow a group of users to use dangerous html tags.
There are some ways I see, but I don't know how to implement those. One would be changing safe_html for the pages editors own (1). Another would be to allow those tags on some subtree (2). And yet another finding an equivalent of "static text portlet" that would display in the middle panel (3). We could then use some of the composite products (I stumbled upon Collage and CMFContentPanels), to include the unsafe content on other sites.
My site has been ridden by advert bots, so I don't want to remove the filtering all together. I don't have an easy (no false positives) way of checking which users are bots, so deploying captcha now wouldn't help either.
The question is: How to implement any of those solutions?
(I already asked that on plone mailing list without an answer, so I thought I would give it another try here.)
Solution (3):
Use TAL portlet to add non-filtered HTML/JS snippets
Use ContentWellPortlets to show these portlets above or below your content.
I haven't used Plone 3.2 but there were some tools in the root directory of the Plone site when using the ZMI that allowed this. I can't remember if it was in "portal_transforms" or not, but I think so. It allows you to specify what tags in the HTML are allowed. I don't remember if it was something that you could control using the security settings (e.g. role based) or whether it was just a site wide setting.
Sorry for the vagueness but I just figured since you haven't gotten an answer that I'd tell you what I knew (little as that may be).
In Plone Site Setup there is a configlet for HTML Filtering. That may be useful.
PS: SO makes it so hard to help if your points is less than 125. May be I will just stick to the plone users mailing list.
PPS: That should make the answer "more complete"
I'm learning ASP.NET using a great Sitepoint book, and I'm also learning more about CSS. I'm undecided on how useful Master Pages are. Could someone let me know whether the real world use mater pages - and if they don't what do they do?
Cheers
Mike
Yes, we absolutely use them.
Typically you will use master pages to handle your header, footer and navigation sections that are consistent through-out all the pages in your website.
This follows the DRY principle of not having to repeat yourself when creating new web forms.
MasterPages are the best feature that came with ASP.NET 2.0.
I use them whenever I can. They simplify your maintenance and management on a website. With a one change you can change whole site.
I always use master pages. It helps keep the code for each page less cluttered, and as previously stated, it lessens the need to repeat yourself.
Speaking of CSS, I use CSS to style the master pages, and set text formating "rules", while I usually end up styling graphics in each individual aspx/ascx-file. I find this less confusing, as you'll otherwise end up with one massive CSS-file - which is hard to keep structured - or a myriad of CSS-files - which often get hard to keep track of.
We use Masterpages for many of our applications and find them a benefit but I think your right to question how useful they are.
For our applications that have a large number of pages it's great to be able to extract a lot of the style information to one place. I know it's possible with include files etc but as Masterpages are the main method for Visual Studio it's obviously integrated very well and easy to use.
The biggest benefit for me is that I tend to use the same Masterpage across many applications thus giving them all the same look and feel. Again I know this can be achieved in other ways but it's Visual Studio integration makes it the easiest for us.
I think the best way for you to decide is to try them and try an alternative method as well. Pick your favorite and then let us all know!
Master pages are absolutley crucial to any ASP.Net application. They are the building blocks for your site.
And if you ever start looking at SharePoint they are the underpinning of all customisation and branding.
Why would you think otherwise? I am interested to know why you might not have thought them as useful.
I've had a solution delivered without master pages, and its a real pain trying to change the layout of the page, as each page has to be changed individually.