Simple Machines with Typo3 CMS

[giang15]

I started a topic on yabbse hxxp:www.yabbse.org/community/index.php?thread=19471 [nonactive] and I thought the folks at Simple Machines could put some input.  Typo3 is a very powerful Content Management System, not a portal, which could use the power of SMs.  What do think about SM and Typo3 integration?

peace,
Giang 

[David]

I would really like to see this, know of anyone familiar with Typo3 that would be willing to work on it.

[Adin]

That'd be really cool.

If Typo3 had SMF integrated ... that'd be awesome !

If i had the skill to do it, i'd help you ... maybe i can find someone who does ...

[Raine]

Now, I've been doing a lot of research into CMSs lately, and it seems that Typo3 is definitely one of the kings out there...

Do we have any people here who are fans of Typo3 and would like to work on an integration?  I'll try rounding up support at various Typo3 boards...

[Cccddd]

What does a CMS do exactly?

[Shadow]

CMS stands for Content Management System. So... it controls the content of the site.

[writeto]

TYPO3 is a very huge and capable system and it cannot be fully learned in a week! The shear amount of features makes it contradictory to think that this can ever be changed. TYPO3 will always have a long learning curve for developers. Once mastered, the system will let you do the most complex website and the authors using it will love you for the choice of TYPO3.

I just recently about 4 days ago started learning typo3. Depending on when this intergration begins (if I have developed the necessary knowledge to do so) I would be willing to donate as much of my free time (while still maintaining the semblance of a life) to this project. However, I do not want to lead this project. If there is somebody with comprehensive knowledge, that wants to lead this project, please post here or pm me.

Andrew

[Cccddd]

CMS stands for Content Management System. So... it controls the content of the site.

yeah i know what it stands for but in what way does it control the content?

[Shadow]

CMS stands for Content Management System. So... it controls the content of the site.

yeah i know what it stands for but in what way does it control the content?

In controling what you have on your site... go download one.

[Jeff Lewis]

CMS stands for Content Management System. So... it controls the content of the site.

yeah i know what it stands for but in what way does it control the content?

Basically a CMS controls what pages look like, where things go, when and where they appear. When people call phpNuke and things like that CMS's they are sadly mistaken. They should be referred to as portals.

A CMS has stored procedures typically to control the site and very much make it dynamic...they are quite useful for sites that have constant streams of new information.

[bostasp]

Does that mean a CMS can be independant of you, or anyone else giving it information? Say it got some of it's information from XML feeds and such like?

I know the answer is yes, but is a CMS a CMS without that?

[[Unknown]]

Not really.  A CMS should be able to function by having outsiders publish articles.... more or less.

At least, that's my understanding.

-[Unknown]

[Jeff Lewis]

A CMS should be able to do a few things. It should be able to slurp in a feed of some sort. Whether it be XML files or whatever as well as a manual add of an article/story.

My last job was working with a major CMS which cost the business into the hundreds of thousands. Was a VERY in depth system which I still feel could be better done by an open source community

[Cccddd]

hmmm... i still feel like im missing the key to wtf CMS's are. I will have to look around the net some more

[NV]

One of the disadvantages of forum software is that important information gets lost in the multitude of messages being posted. I have had some thoughts about a CMS 'extension' that could get rid of these problems. I've been thinking about some progamming for my own site, but haven't had enough time for it yet.

My idea was roughly:

To create a "Important Message-table" in which this important information could be entered (1 message, 1 record).

You could add multiple categories to your message (e.g. economics, politics, entertainment etc.) and you could add sources (own creation or copied from CNN etc.)  so you have an option to categorize and show your messages in a number of ways to your customers. Insering an important message would then create automatically the first posting in your forum, so other forum members can react to the number 1 message.

The ability to add and edit messages could be added to the existing Members-table by creating a special editor/ chief editor group.

Obviously one of the best applications would be that e.g. the 10 most recent 'Important messages' would appear on your frontpage, and it integrates fluently with your forum. But as indicated the structure should be so flexible that you have a lot of other options to present your information to the viewers.

If a CMS-extension would be able to do this, then that would be very useful IMO.

[NV]

hmmm... i still feel like im missing the key to wtf CMS's are. I will have to look around the net some more

The main reason that CMS's exist is the fact that you can separate the lay out and structure of your Internet/ Intranet website from the content that it holds.

If you are an experienced web designer and you have to build a website with, let's say 50 static pages, than a CMS is not really interesting.

If you have the situation (very common with large organizations) where not-so-HTML-savvy people are expected to fill an Intranet with information, than it's very handy if those people can enter their information in a simple way, without having the opportunity to worry about (or worse to alter ) the site structure and lay out.

Of course there are a lot of other things to a CMS, but that's the key reason people use CMS's.

[bostasp]

My attempts at a CMS have made it turn out rather like a "portal"... (http://www.bostasp.net/base/)

The layout files are separate, but it still does have a few <div> tags with classes in the code, all echo'ed out. So in fact it isn't CMS and I've started to blabber...

[Cccddd]

oh well in that case i'm gonna forget CMS's

Now, NV, about your idea with sorting important stuff from not important stuff. Have you ever been to http://slashdot.org ? Well see what they do is use ratings (based on votes from moderator-type people) and their karma (which is based on the ratings from all their previous posts). Then in user preferences, people are able to filter out posts that rate lower than a certain threshold.

If SMF were to include something like this, or if a mod were made like this, then you could setup all posts above a certain rating to show up in a "important post" page.

[giang15]

Typo3 will come out with version 3.6 soon which includes many more features, including the possibility of handling multi-lingual content.  I was wondering if SimpleMachine has been working together with Typo3 on the possibility of the forum working together with their CMS. Regards.

[Ernst]

Anybody with some news about a possible integration of Typo3 and SM ?