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Created: Friday, February 10, 2006 at 2:04 pm EST
Last updated: Friday, February 10, 2006 at 2:04 pm ESTFuture CMS Features (Wishlists)

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[quote]Posted: Friday, February 10, 2006 at 2:04 pm EST OK, So I've been working on a CMS (Content Management System) on and off for a few weeks. This will be an open source project (eventually), and free to use. It will function under the notion that all text data is the same -- only that the "type" of data will adjust how it will be displayed. To explain this, think about what is really the difference between a BBS discusstion thread, a news story, and a blog entry? * A discussion thread is started by a single user, and other users post responses. All responses are weighted equally, displayed in chronoloical order. * A blog post is posted by a single user, and others can add comments. The initial entry is weighted higher than the comments; but this is a presentation matter, not really a database matter. * A news story is similar to a blog entry, where a single user posts a story, and others may be able to comment. A news story may be exactly like a blog entry, but categorized differently. It may also have multiple photos or media items attached. * A photo or media item can also be treated like a story -- it may or may not have a headline, it has a body (caption), and is owned by a user (the photographer, and hence the photo credit). * A photo gallery is simply a collection of photos/media items, the same way a forum topic is a collection of discussion threads (or sub-topics), and a blog is a collection of blog entries. * A wiki is just collection of single pages that one or more users can edit. With that said, why not have everything just be the same thing? You simple flag (or this is handled automatically based on where it was created in the CMS) the entry based on what it is (discussion, blog, etc). Hell, you can even create a book (since that's been discussed a lot lately), where a book is a collection of chapters, which may contain one or more entries. I'm keeping in mind that there are other tools out there, like Wordpress, Drupal, and Joomla/Mambo. My focus is on ease of use and scalability. So, what do you guys think? I'm thinking that eventually, once it's done, that will be what powers The Geekhouse. It'll still be a BBS, it'll still have photo galleries; but it'll also have news items or blog entries that anyone can post. What other sort of things would you guys like to see in this? Does this even interest anyone here? An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthx bai. --Genesis 1:31