Hi Geoff and Blair,

Both of your replies clears it up nicely for me thanks for your time.

David



On Jan 29, 10:31 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Jan 29, 10:09 am, "Hoolahawk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What is better practice, to use the builtin FC types as discribed
> > above or should we be creating our own types?
>
> > If we do create our own types, should we be extending Types or dmHTML
> > type?FarCry CMS is really just a solution built on top of the FarCry
> framework.  The core content types are examples that provide an out of
> the box solution -- the solution most people start with.  But building
> custom content types is really very straightforward, and so building
> functinality that is specific to your application is encouraged.  That
> said, there is abviously a bit more work extending the framework than
> just changing webskins.
>
> The only reason to "extend" a core type is if you are wanting to
> modify that functionality -- mre typically you want new functinality.  
> In this case you should definitely *not* be extending the core content
> types.  As a guide I'd say nine times out of ten you should be looking
> to build a completely new content type.
>
> Building extensions has been vastly improved in the FarCry 4.0 release
> (currently in beta).  If this is a relatively new project I'd
> certainly recommend having a look at v4.0 if you find yourself needing
> to build custom extensions to the CMS.
>
> Hopefully that helps,
>
> -- geoffhttp://www.daemon.com.au/


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