CushyCMS a promising CMS ?
CushyCMS is a new kind of CMS oriented for simple website and web designer user. It enables to easily manage content from your website by using CSS class named “cushycms” where you need to let the client.
It remember’s me how we can easily do a CMS like this using rules applied on XHTML elements with DOM functions.
- You parse with PHP DOM a page
- Search in each element a class named : “cushycms”
- Now you apply rules for each element who contained “cushycms”.
If the element is an <img> enable the user to upload a image (in CushyCMS they process the image with ImageMagick or the GDLib to be exactly as the width and height) .
If it’s a content <p> or <div> or <span> or any <hX> then display an WYSIWYG editor. Of course you can make other changes for other elements - Then when all changes are made, process the pages to update changes and upload the new page !
- You’re done !
Put a little bit of AJAXy stuff and now you have a cool CMS.
The idea of CushyCMS is really cool. I’m shure someone will do a same application in a short time with all my development reverse enginnering.
I like this use of “class” to update all content but here is some improvements and leaks I’ll will put on it and is really simple to implement.
- Just to get a clean code, it could be great to make a temporary page for the editing template and then the production page should be “cushycms”-class-less.
- What about links ? How the client can create new pages and link them together ? For example: a really simple product catalog to be updated.
- And what about creating repeated areas like news ? Again it’s seems there would be a problem.
Do your own opinion on this new CMS but it seems promising for really basic CMS.
Oh ! I forget ! It seems CushyCMS is made with Ruby on Rails. Am I wrong ?
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April 13th, 2008
you can only sign up and try it if you have an invite code, are you giving any out?
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