Expect to see massive changes in a future core release.

Hello, all, and thanks for the comments so far.

Let me explain my goals and then perhaps a format and story will fall out from those.

At the moment, I am searching for a content management system to create a new site for a new magazine. Ideally, the same CMS would be used to eventually replace the underlying technology and processes that creates and runs linuxmagazine.com.

I'm technical, so I am not afraid of a little programming or server hacking to get something running. However, that time is limited.

Anyway, I have found some options in the open source world (don't want to spend money if I don't have to, or would prefer to spend it on customizing something), yet I am having a very hard time tracking down more options. The more time goes on, the more I find, thanks to people who see my postings or answer emails. I also realize the systems are very dynamic, growing and changing regularly.

Originally, the idea was to ask a number of CMS teams to create the best magazine site they could using their toolset. Obviously, the results would vary because the tools vary, but that's OK. There's also a range of requirements in the world and a range of pain to adopt the toolset. Some people commented that it would be better to focus on a non-profit web site, so one venture -- LM -- would not be the sole beneficiary. However, there's no reason to prevent all of the results from being open sourced as well.

I do think some kind of survey of the CM systems is needed.

The goals then are:

1/ Educate people about the options that are available.

2/ Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the (most) viable CM systems.

3/ Compare the open source CM systems to commercial counterparts.

4/ Try, via example, to show one in action for an interesting site.

I am open to suggestions on how to achieve these goals. I also want to help the opencms community achieve its goals.

So, more thoughts?

Martin

Thanks cuckston,

However, I'm modifying a module, thus I can't use the formulaire modules.

Thanks anyway

Hi devs,
i've read a post in this forum
reporting that the release of a new(wysiwyg,integrated)
editor for site-wide use is close.
Is this true?
Have you fixed an approx date for this event?
I think the most of xoopsers will be joiful at this.

Regards,ralf.

It looks like that was happening because I have the site turned off while I am working on it. As soon as I turned it on, there was the login menu. Thanks for the help!

Regards,

If you would like an alternate way of creating forms i use a module called formulair which is an excellent module for creating forms. There have been a few very minor problems with it but it is being fixed now i believe. Just do a search on XOOPS for it.

As for your original question unfortunatly i am not much of a programmer however i hope this helps.

Bickering aside, i believe that elvir is right in that introducing new forum software into XOOPS is the right way to go. A lot of people use XOOPS simply as a portal for their forum so it is important that the forum is the best suited one for them. I would like to see more modules being made for YaBB SE, SMF, Invision Board and vBulletin and not just phpBB.

Hi !

What and where is the class I can use to create a select box using XoopsForm. I want a SelectBox that contains, for example 3 items. If the user choose the item x then the value y is written in the field of the database.

There is probably a XOOPS class that does that but I did not find it yet.

Anybody can help? An example would be really cool !

Thanks !

Yes, here small bit from the start of the index.php:

$op = "form";
if ( isset($HTTP_POST_VARS['op']) && $HTTP_POST_VARS['op'] == "submit" ) {
$op = "submit";
}

Hey there, i was just wondering, if we applied for the dev site at dev.xoops.org, when can we expect a reply to wether we are accepted or not???

Thanks

Matt