I actually used Drupal's db schema to port a Drupal/PHP website to run on
ColdFusion
Uses alot of tables tho.
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Sent: Thu 4/12/2007 7:17 AM
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Subject: RE: [ACFUG Discuss] writing a
Your best bet is to download Joomla or Mambo or something similar and just look
at their database tables, do some changes, and see how they're handling it. I
mean, I hate to say it, but reverse engineering is the way to go here. Some of
these systems are fairly tried and true and you'd be
I would agree with both John and Dean here. The magnanimity of the
questions versus the usefullness of redoing the wheel.
If I were to to consider writing a CMS, I would be very interested in
capturing several pieces of data.:
The meta data on how to display a page in the templates that the
Thank you everyone. I appreciate the comments. I agree it doesnt make sense
to reinvent the wheel. The reason I wanted to know about CMS is because a
client of mine uses custom inhouse CF built CMS and I have to add some new
features to it. As per my knowledge, I always think a person should get
I think you're going about it backwards.
Look at the code. Review it. Figure out how it works. Then modify it.
Trying to understand it by understanding other CMS systems just won't get you
there. And it certainly won't help you figure out how to add features.
-dhs
On April 11, 2007,
Thanks All, I didnt have access to code and thats the reason I was thinking
of all things that might help me in understand. Dean, I agree with your
comment. Looking at code greatly helps to understand how things work. Thats
what I have been doing for sometime now and will do for this work also.
