Very good advice. Ignore at mambo's peril.
On Nov 25, 1:27 am, James K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simple - if you're starting from scratch, seriously start over and > rethink a lot of the fundamentals. > > Mambo's idea of what content is and how it should be organized within > a CMS is very outdated and short sighted. > > Joomla's been making a valiant effort to modernize the Mambo codebase, > but it still suffers from several of the same fatal flaws in terms of > execution. Why in the world can I only organize content 2 levels deep? > Why can I only add content to a single category? > > In addition, it would be wise to look into broadening Mambo's idea of > "content". Drupal does a pretty good job of making it easy to create > several different content types (ie blog posts, news items, products, > etc) and handle them in different ways without having to make very > literal "sections" > > Why are the security permissions hard coded? I know Joomla's in the > middle of a really messy migration to a proper ACL implementation, but > they're not anywhere near close yet. Security roles should be > flexible, customizable, granular, and hierarchical. > > Mambo's 8 years old now and while it may be tempting to give Mambo's > users something very familiar in execution, you'd just be doing the > project a disservice by ignoring the vast innovations that have > occurred in the CMS space since Mambo was originally architected. > > There are lots of good CMSes on the market - both commercial and open > source that are doing a lot of really interesting things these days. > Do your research, take all the lessons learned from Mambo development > over the years and get crackin! Before writing a line of code, you > should put a lot of thought and time into the database design. Many > fundamental design choices will be made at that point which will be > hard to go back on once you've written a significant amount of code. > > The more planning you do, the better the end product will be. > > Good luck! > > - James > > On Nov 19, 9:47 am, andphe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, I'm on Mambo Dev team, and we realize that while we are > > planning our major rewrite of Mambo based on CakePHP, we are not > > hearing what the CakePHP community have to say. > > > Specifically it would be good to have a brainstorm here, about what > > the CakePHP users/developers expect on a cake based CMS. > > > So, go ahead, lets have fun.... > > > Andrés --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
