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Anyone interested in some serious look at internals of CMS systems?
slyskawa:
I've been using CMS's since 2001. I started with E107, tried Joomla, Drupal, MoinMoin, GetSimple and am currently trying TikiCMS. My recommendation would be to pick a couple of the more mature CMS's and look at the changes they've made for their major release (1.0 to 2.0). All of the CMS's I've used have had growing pains and have found out the hard way that the way they were doing things was not the most optimal way. Instead of comparing one CMS to another, compare the same CMS over major versions and see what changes they've made.
Grouping and prioritizing your questions may help getting the information you are looking for. Groups, users and permissions are all related in some CMS's. A user is assigned to a group, groups are given permissions, permissions are additive so each user starts off in a group that has minimal permissions. What goes into the core is a design issue, so again, I would look at how various CMS's have changed what they put in the core rather then compare one CMS's core offerings to another CMS's core offerings.
mouser:
Instead of comparing one CMS to another, compare the same CMS over major versions and see what changes they've made.
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That's a clever idea for a way to get additional insights.
mouser:
I apologize for not following up on this more.. But I'm ready to get serious about it.
Rover -- and anyone else -- do you feel up to diving into this stuff seriously? Anyone interested in writing a paper comparing CMS internals?
Jammo the OrganizedFellow:
I've been absent for a long time here.
I've had great success with ProcessWire CMS. OpenSource, on github, powerful, unlimited custom fields. I left ExpressionEngine for it months ago. Still learning it though, but has a handy jQuery style API.
mouser:
Welcome back Jammo :up:
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