vBulletin Content Management System

[Ian Gordon]

This might fall on deaf ears but, so be it.

The functionality to build a content management system for vBulletin already exisit. I say this because if you think about what the system itself does, most of it is content management (forum threads, posts, categories, etc).

If you want to build a good CMS that is compatitable and works well, don't look at outside systems, rather look at the internal code that vBulletin has to already do normal functions. All the functionality to build a powerful CMS is already there, it just needs a group of programmers to put it together, even the admincp has the exisit functionality to accomadate the new controls.

Think about how you create posts, thread, categories. Think about how you manage to move posts from one forum to another, all that code could be modified to suit a new need. It could even be expanded further if people wanted.

The point of this is just to let people know who might have the wrong idea about using vBulletin for a CMS, it has the capability, it always has, it just need someone to put it all together by taking some code and molding it with some small changes. The biggest headache might be the MySQL database but, even that could be done with exisit MySQL tables.

[amykhar]

The toughest part, in my opinion, is going to be getting search to work across CMS modules. If your content is just text, it's easy to use forums, threads and posts to organize it. But, if you need to have more interactive content, making it searchable is not as easy.

But yes, the tools are there. It's just going to take work to expand upon them. I think if the vbadvanced people would figure out an API for making modules searchable, and put together a good articles and blog module with tagging, most users would be satisfied.

[Ian Gordon]

Well my only contention is that i'm surprised no one has tried to do it before, I have started to do some priliminary coding but, its a big beast and alone it might take some time.

[Cky47]

Pm me if you need some help with the non php part of it. I would be glad to lend a hand in my spare time.

[Ian Gordon]

Thanks, it'll probably be a while till anything is released, I am also working to get rid of tables for non-tabular data such as the main layouts and such around the forum.