since its gonna be a CMS, i think its better if you look at other open source CMS database structure (for e.g. joomla) before u start. this wil help u set up the models first. then you can continue coding it up according to your needs.
On Mar 25, 12:43 am, eThikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im building a CMS for an organization helping children in Ghana. > The webpage will contain two types of pages: Dynamic and static. The > static pages will be "light html" database based, and edited in a > wysiwyg editor by people who dosent have any html knowledge (FCKEditor > will probably be used for this). > The Dynamic pages will be sites such as file uploading and a simple > blog system but i want this pages to exist as views in the cake > structure. > The whole site will host a lot of content, and due to that all this > content will be split into "sections", and each section has a submenu > with pages. The problem is that these pages will be both dynamic and > static pages. > I would very much like the url to be like this: domain.com/section/ > page but to do this I guess i need to manually create every section as > controller, where the functions used by the dynamic pages will be (I > can live with that!). > So I figure I need some kind of content controller (or modify the > existing pages controller) which examines the URI, locates the type of > content (static or dynamic) and, if static, echoes out the data, or > render/redirect to the right view, if it is a dynamic page. > > I have never made a CMS before, so I'm not sure this is the proper way > doing it (ANY suggestions are very welcome) and I'm a fairly new cake > baker, which is why I write you all for assistance. > I have been browsing CakePHP projects for solution code (Lumad, > webrocket etc..) but all of them seems only to host static content, > and furthermore they don't operate with "sections". > > Is this even possible, and is it the proper way of doing it? > Are there already a similar project I just haven't found? > > This a all my own thoughts, and to be honest I'm pretty confused at > the moment. > I will appreciate any kind of feedback. > > Thank you. > Rasmus --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
