Re: [Sheflug] Hi All

[Matthew Collins <matthew [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> The short story is that they are all crap and worthless.
>  
Heh, I beg to differ.

> The longer story is that there are a set of faults with CMSes, such as:
>
>      * really awful urls,
>        e.g., /index.php?mode=view&page=my_page&blahblahblah, which make
>        me want to weep
>      * claim to support XHTML, but really just have clean-ish templates
>        and will break when content that isn't an XHTML fragment is
>        inserted
>      * require you to be running something "enterprise" on your apache
>        server, eg., Tomcat, Zope
>      * are mindlessly complex (e.g., Typo)
>      * require a database for absolutely everything
>      * have security holes big enough to put a bypass through
>      * are not free software
>  
Scoop (http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/) is a rock solid CMS. Pretty URL's, 
Doesn't claim to support XHTML (because it doesn't :). No need for 
tomcat or zope, but mod_perl is required for performance. It is quite 
complex, in that it has a steep learning curve, but show me something 
powerful that doesn't.
Of course it requires a database, but I as for the security holes, it is 
very robust. I've found a couple of minor ones myself, and the users of 
my site (http://www.hulver.com/scoop/) are an unforgiving bunch who are 
quick to jump on an vulnerability.
Oh, and it's GPL.

Of course, I'm slightly biased because I'm a developer for it, so you 
can't rely on my impartiality.

> etc. etc., I could probably think of more, and all CMSes exhibit at
> least three of them. They're often built on top of some developer's idea
> of a "platform" which usually means the code is inhospitable to anyone
> trying to hack it. Usual signs of such "platform"ness are "we support
> modules", "we have an API", etc.
>  
Scoop is written in perl, and is easy to extend using perl. It's not 
built on top of a platform, just mod_perl. Of course there's an API, how 
else would you program for it?

> > I would like to be able to have a styleswitcher on the front.
> >
> > Failing this, does anyone know how to implement a styleswitcher to work across 
> > all divisions on a page.
> >    
Scoop has a themes system, which is fairly simple to set up.

--
Matthew Collins
http://www.hulver.com/scoop/
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