I have a website built (Java/J2EE), and now I want to store documents in abundance.
I want my website to use the CMS system, I do not want the CMS system to make a website.
Sort of use CMS as a database, and have my current website be a front end to the docs.
Any product recommendations, given I need to integrate it with an existing website?
It's very depends on your website.
I hope opensourcecms help you to choose.
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I just launched my personal website to advertise my services for front-end web development and digital art.
I'm looking into adding Schema.org structured data to the page but cannot find a list of organization/person types to use for a freelance/contractor.
Any insight on what Schema.org types I might want to include on my site for my specific niche?
I use http://schema.org/Person for this. You might want to consider http://schema.org/Corporation as well. Depending on how you want to market yourself. I.E. freelancer vs company.
I've been developing web apps some years now, actually as a hobby. When I write something, unsing Laravel, Sails.js, or Meteor and I add a feature, I upload it and it's there, for everyone.
However, I've always been wondering how bigger sites like facebook manage to roll out features to just some users. Do they push their changes to just some servers? But in that case - how do they manage the make the selected users access just these servers?
Or some db entry to see if the user has access to the feature/ version?
So how does it work?
Really interested in this :)
Large sites like Facebook use a technique called Feature toggles to control the functionality that is active at run-time. The following blog article describes Facebook's approach:
https://abhishek-tiwari.com/post/decoupling-deployment-and-release-feature-toggles
I'm looking for a CMS for our extranet. We need users to be able to authenticate themselves and we'll want to design forms that submit data to a database. Just wondering what CMS systems people can suggest.
I think the majority of CMS systems can accomplish creation of simple HTML forms for data capture purposes. I guess it really depends on what you want to do with the forms - how complex are they? What do you need to do with the data afterwards?
I have experience with Ektron and can tell you that everything you want to do is possible with Ektron. You can setup Ektron to authenticate against Active Directory to enable Single Sign On for your users. Ektron users can create HTML forms for other users to use to submit data too.
It also depends on your budget - there are several open source CMS packages that you may also want to consider.
Lets say my web server app is in drupal or wordpress, or even code igniter, how would one get about integrating a comment system? TSpecifically what I am trying to find out is if anyone was able to find a successful approach that would save some time as opposed to me going down the road of tying myself to a specific CMS content system.
Just throwing in some considerations here (by no means complete):
Are users also accessing your content (and its comment system) via the website?
If so, you'll want to have a comment interface that is available on the website too, and the easiest choice may be to use the comment system natively supplied by your CMS / through plugins.
If on the other hand your users will only be using the iOS app(s) for commenting (via a native interface) or you'll be heavily customizing the website anyway, using a comment system independent from your CMS might be an option.
How will the content be accessed from the app?
Via a simple web view? Or will the app download via an API provided by your CMS and display it in a native UI? If you are using an API provided by your CMS, you will have the same issue with your content as with your comments when moving CMSes.
You could add an intermediate layer that abstracts from the specific CMS API.
Or if you don't really plan on moving CMSes but want to prepare for that event nevertheless, you could simply implement a no-frills "version check" to ask the server for the CMS kind / version it is using, and if it doesn't match what your app expects, ask the users to update. This isn't the prettiest user experience, but it might be sufficient depending on what you're actually planning.
I am working on a Web Project similar to Google-Video.
As for now, I want to start coding the site.
I know some PHP, HTML and MySQL.
I already have:
Database built and ready (in MySQL)
Links and Tags in the Database
The thing is, I don't want to code everything from hand.
As I've seen so far, with CMS it's not possible to use my own database. Or am I wrong?
And what Framework would you suggest me?
Looking forward for your advice!
Thanks
You should probably start over, but use your existing DB design as your logical schema to be implemented in the CMS you eventually choose.
Go to http://cmsmatrix.org/ and compare Drupal, Joomla!, eZ Publish and TYPO3 for the best fit for your requirements.
Also, pay attention to the search engine features available with each one. e.g. eZ Publish eZ Find is based on Lucene.
In terms of functionality ( but excluding add management and your specific layout or graphic-design) you should be able to create a reasonable clone within a few hours using eZ. Here is one example http://untoldstories.eu/ezinfo/about