I'm managing a private board and I'm beginning to see some overlap in providing content and allowing users to share information. I'm trying to decide if it's time to move to a CMS. I'm deciding on migration paths, or are there minor differences.
2006-11-28 02:47:26 · 4 answers · asked by R D 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
A content management system would be one that can edit and have full control over a site. I don't think there is a question of when does a php forum become a CMS, you can decide the time on your own.
2006-11-28 02:51:30 · answer #1 · answered by comn8u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forums are a place where a discussion between people is the overriding feature. CMS tends to have main articles, and perhaps from that, a discussion. So the first step from a forum to a CMS is that one small group of people (typically called editors or authors) write an article, and then post it - they are the ones that create new pages. In forum terms they'd be the ones who start new discussions/threads.
The second element of a CMS is workflow - how articles get from an initial state when they are written by an author, to actually published and visible on the site. In large companies, articles need to go through many departments for approval. Your own sites may just have a moderator/editor to approve articles written by others.
In your scenario, look at how new discussions/threads are started. If they are as a result of a small group of people writing a long post, which then attracts comments/further discussion, then a CMS is perhaps an option for you.
On the low-end of the CMS products are blogging tools like WordPress (which also allows articles to be managed), and MovableType, also there's a plethora of PHP platforms like PHPNuke, Drupal (this is getting good reviews), and up to CMS type applications like Joomla and Midgard.
Consider what features you are looking for. You mention allowing users to share information - that suggest some sort of messaging framework, more like a community portal (like Wikipedia's community pages) than a CMS. (To be fair Wikipedia is another example of a useful low-level CMS).
2006-11-28 02:57:22 · answer #2 · answered by Isofarro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
learn JavaScript, Hypertext Preprocessor, and Java. also get classes like Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, also Adobe Flash CS5. in case you are able to not manage to pay for those then some options are: GIMP, Macromedia Flash, and Notepad ++.
2016-10-07 22:03:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you might want to setup a WIKI?
2006-11-28 02:55:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋