Re: Mambo on CakePHP brainstorm

Very good advice.

Ignore at mambo's peril.

On Nov 25, 1:27 am, James K <james.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Simple - if you're starting from scratch, seriously start over and
> rethink a lot of the fundamentals.
>
> Mambo's idea of what content is and how it should be organized within
> a CMS is very outdated and short sighted.
>
> Joomla's been making a valiant effort to modernize the Mambo codebase,
> but it still suffers from several of the same fatal flaws in terms of
> execution. Why in the world can I only organize content 2 levels deep?
> Why can I only add content to a single category?
>
> In addition, it would be wise to look into broadening Mambo's idea of
> "content". Drupal does a pretty good job of making it easy to create
> several different content types (ie blog posts, news items, products,
> etc) and handle them in different ways without having to make very
> literal "sections"
>
> Why are the security permissions hard coded? I know Joomla's in the
> middle of a really messy migration to a proper ACL implementation, but
> they're not anywhere near close yet. Security roles should be
> flexible, customizable, granular, and hierarchical.
>
> Mambo's 8 years old now and while it may be tempting to give Mambo's
> users something very familiar in execution, you'd just be doing the
> project a disservice by ignoring the vast innovations that have
> occurred in the CMS space since Mambo was originally architected.
>
> There are lots of good CMSes on the market - both commercial and open
> source that are doing a lot of really interesting things these days.
> Do your research, take all the lessons learned from Mambo development
> over the years and get crackin! Before writing a line of code, you
> should put a lot of thought and time into the database design. Many
> fundamental design choices will be made at that point which will be
> hard to go back on once you've written a significant amount of code.
>
> The more planning you do, the better the end product will be.
>
> Good luck!
>
> - James
>
> On Nov 19, 9:47 am, andphe <and...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all, I'm on Mambo Dev team, and we realize that while we are
> > planning our major rewrite of Mambo based on CakePHP, we are not
> > hearing what the CakePHP community have to say.
>
> > Specifically it would be good to have a brainstorm here, about what
> > the CakePHP users/developers expect on a cake based CMS.
>
> > So, go ahead, lets have fun....
>
> > Andrés
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