Good cms to use along side vb?

[FASherman]

Originally Posted by mmw

I take it the template system will be pretty much the same as phpnuke or will it be able to use your own forum styles?
keep up the good work on it.

I created a Nuke style the pulls its info from the VB style sheet. So when you modify your VB style, changing colors and table backgrounds, the changes automatically and immediately get picked up on the portal.

Or you can see for yourself. I don't think you'll need to register to do this either. Go to the main forums at http://forums.daily-web.info and select one of the styles. I just finished installing the liquid grey and classic styles for this demo. Now view the development portal at http://devsite.daily-web.info

The portal will change with each selected style, automatically. Of course, if this were more than a feature demo, I'd tweak those styles to look a little nicer.

[SaN-DeeP]

I use this on My site and I AM QUITE HAPPY WITH IT

Virtuanews -> www.virtuanews.co.uk

Features list here -> http://www.virtuanews.co.uk/features.php

Admin Demo here -> http://demo.virtuanews.co.uk/index.php

[Dave-G]

Originally Posted by FASherman

I created a Nuke style the pulls its info from the VB style sheet. So when you modify your VB style, changing colors and table backgrounds, the changes automatically and immediately get picked up on the portal.

This part sounds good, been trying to work this part out, how did you do this? Do you have one master style file (css) that looks at the vb default ?

[FASherman]

Originally Posted by Dave-G

This part sounds good, been trying to work this part out, how did you do this? Do you have one master style file (css) that looks at the vb default ?

As it turns out, css style info is a under specific parameter. Because of that, all basic VB3 styles are simultaneously accessable.

Now, if someone creates a style with special table headers, that will require a little bit of extra work. And I really mean a little bit.

[FASherman]

This is what we call a good news/bad news post.

The good news is that the News content portion is about 40% complete. Take a look at what I mean.

The main default page contains news of all topics - the last X, X being configurable.
http://devsite.daily-web.info/

The individual portals contain only their topic info:
http://devsite.daily-web.info/index....=entertainment
http://devsite.daily-web.info/index.php?portal=business
http://devsite.daily-web.info/index....rtal=computers

I only put in a few articles to show what I mean.

The bad news...well, not exactly bad...but...

The portal information has grown to the point where a configuration file is no longer user friendly. It must now become a nuke table. Thats fine, but it means I have to stop and create all the admin functions to manage the table.

But as I ponder design elements, I realize that this will make the portals even more powerful. Instead of a 1:1 relationship of portal to topic, portals can and will have multiple topics. And each topic can relate back to multiple forums.

Here's an example. I can have a sports portal.

Linked to that portal are the baseball, football, basketball and hockey topics.

The football topic is linked to these forums: football, Dallas Cowboys, Pop Warner football. All of these are football forums, but belong to different categories; Sports, Dallas Area Teams and Youth Sports, respectively.

So, when I create a forum, I give it a name, a description and tag (index.php?portal=XXXX) and a graphic image.

I define an RSS news feed for it.

I define a set of forums from which it draws Newest Threads, Active Threads and Latest Poll info from.

And I define a set of topics for it to display as news.


Creating a topic is a similar process.

When I create a topic, it gets a name, a description and a graphic image.
It is linked to a set of forums.

Finally, when I create an article, it is assigned to a topic. IF comments are enabled, I select which forum to create a new thread in with the article as the first post. It can either be submitted immediately or queued for future publication by date/time.

IF it is set for immediate publication, then it can include a poll. The poll will be created in the same thread as above.

So, you can see with a little work, VB3Nuke is going to become a true CMS for VB3 with two-way integration. The portal will display forum info, but at the same time, the news subsystem of the forum will insert into VB3.

Anyway, I thought I'd be ready to release this the first week of May, but this makes it more like the end of May.

It'll cost a few more weeks, but it'll be a much better multi-portal CMS.

[FASherman]

Here's some more info...

The admin panels for the portal table wasn't really as difficult as I thought it would be. It has been awhile since I've done any Nuke coding, but here are some screen shots...

#1 is adding a new portal, #2 the results.
#3 is editing a portal, $4 the results.

Deleting is pretty easy. No screenshot necessary.

Thats it. Add, Edit or Delete.

BTW, #1, the default, can never be deleted, only edited. It is the default behavior if no ?portal=XXXX is added on the URL or if it is an invalid one.

Things are coming along nicely.

[Brewer]

Originally Posted by AlexanderT

I agree... Typo3 looks like a killer-app... just look at its official tutorial section... those videos are amazing. Unfortunately, I think it is also an over-kill for my needs... so I go with something like Mambo instead.

Once you start working with it you'll find that Mambo is really a great soultion, especially is you are working on a content site with a lot of articles. I'm currently working on a new site that will have over 100 articles (each about 10 pages long) and Mambo handles is easily. Also the search engine friendly URL's should make it earier to get all the content listed in Google.

[FASherman]

The problem, as I see it, with all these non-integrated CMS solutions is that they do nothing to foster discussion.

Integrating user databases is simplistic. I did that with Nuke in about 30 minutes. Big deal.

What we really need is something that not only displays news, but also posts it for discussion and links to the discussion. Nothing (so far) provides that. VB3Nuke will shortly.

[FASherman]

One of the questions I was sked via email is if I can modify Nuke so that certain blocks are displayed only on certain portals. Using my own site as an example, can I restrict the sports scores block to the sports portal, the stock ticker to the business portal, the horoscope to enterainment, etc.

I took a look at the code and it should be easy enough to do. In fact, I'm sure I can code it so that blocks can reside in any subset of all defined portals. If I have a football and a baseball portal, I might want the sports block in both.

And I think I can do that and still have it ready for release in Mid-May.

[akonze]

Hi everybody,

I only can recommend Mambo. I tried Typo3 a year ago and find it too big for my needs. So I started with Mambo. Now I'm the webmaster of the two most successfull unofficial Mambo websites:

www.mamboportal.com
Here you will find tons of files for Mambo and also a module, which lets you show your last x posts from a vBulletin board.

www.mambers.com
This is where the community meet. Of course i use vBulletin for the communinty.