Topic: Great Content Manager for e-smith?

[mischa]

Since yesterday I am fascinated with a content management programme called typo3. Its great, its beautiful, its public domain, it uses apache, mysql and php4 - all of these features would seem to make it a great candidate for e-smith. But unfortunately it needs as well TTF and GD-Support (Version 1.3). Anyone out there who would be better able and willing to create such a compiled rpm for including these features into e-smith???

Of course I know that I should be able to do it myself, and I promise to learn, but at present I would be terribly glad about some binary PHP4 rpm with these features.

Have a look at www.typo3.com and be convinced.

Mischa

[Dan Brown]

Typo3 looks pretty cool.  Since I've already built PHP4 RPMs for e-smith, it's just a matter of modifying them to include support for freetype and gd.  I've done that, and will try to get them uploaded here shortly.  You'd also need to add freetype to the e-smith machine.

[Dan Brown]

OK, the RPMs are built, and install and work fine on my e-smith box.  They'll be uploaded here ASAP.  I'll need to play with Typo3 a bit, I think...

[Thomas]

Is there a RPM for freetype?

[Dan Brown]

Sure is.  I haven't uploaded it here, but it's a standard RedHat 6.1 RPM.  The PHP I just built includes support for freetype.

BTW, I messed around with Typo3 last night, and I found it to be a royal PITA to install.  The docs are poor, and even following them as best I could, I kept getting "Forbidden--you do not have permission to access /testsite on this server."  It may be that, once it's installed, it's great, but getting it installed seems like a lot of trouble.

[garret]

Dan,

I have been looking at typo3 and it seems to go along way towards being a solution I've been needing for a University my company is doing work with. Have you had any success? And what about all the dependensey issues with the rpms?

[garret]

Dan,

need major help here. I installed the rpms for typo3, the GD and the freetype and mysql has crashed. Nothing that uses a database is working. Please help me here.

Please email me at gacott@fresco-electric.com, as my regular server is down because it uses a database.

I've got a mysql book at work and I'll see if I can figure anything out also.

Serious problem here!!

Thanks

GARRET

P.S.
It's probably something simple but I'm still trying to learn all of this stuff.

[Dan Brown]

Hmmm...  Not at all sure why this was (apparently) addressed to me, or the last message either.  I haven't been working on Typo3 at all.  I tried installing it, it was a PITA, I stopped.  I don't really have any need for such a package at the moment, so I didn't see any point in continuing to struggle with lousy documentation and cryptic error messages.  That's been almost 6 weeks ago, so it's possible that something's changed since then.

On the MySQL problem, it's pretty hard to tell what's wrong when you only say "it doesn't work".  Can you access MySQL from the command line?  (type "mysql -p" at the root prompt, and enter the MySQL root password when prompted).  What error messages do you get?  Etc...  I'm far from an expert on this, but I can take a crack at it.

[AJ Henley]

Never was able to get Typo3 to work anywhere much less under esmith.
Depending on what you mean by content management though, have you
tried phpNuke? Or its cuter, cleaner cousin phpWebsite (phpwebsite.appstate.edu)?
They both work under Nuke and give a lot of the functionality of a good
content manager. The granddaddy of them all is ezPublish, but I am still
working on getting that to work under esmith.

[AJ Henley]

Never was able to get Typo3 to work anywhere much less under esmith.
Depending on what you mean by content management though, have you
tried phpNuke? Or its cuter, cleaner cousin phpWebsite (phpwebsite.appstate.edu)?
They both work under Nuke and give a lot of the functionality of a good
content manager. The granddaddy of them all is ezPublish, but I am still
working on getting that to work under esmith.

[Garret]

I use myPHPNuke on a number of websites now. Couldn't say enough good things about it! On the other hand, it's functionality is pretty speciffic. Unlike type03 and ezpublish. I think that they offer a much greater range at this point, although Nuke is coming along. Nuke has only been existance as PHPNuke for seven months or so. Still looking for something that give more room for custom design. This is where PHP-Nuke really lacks.

[AJ Henley]

Exactly, phpWebsite is based on nuke, but it is much easier to change the design.

However, it still isn't possible to change the design "online" as you can with
Typo3 and ezPublish. So my quest continues...

[Garret]

One that I've been keeping my eye on, and have even done a little with is back-end.org. You don't see many changes on the website but there has been quite a bit of activity of late. Very interesting things happening with that script. Get on their listand you'll see what's happening. Fairly impressive.

[Gerald]

I have been lurking this thread because I intend to use php and mysql to develop web sites as a replacement for Front Page and the nasty extensions. However, I must be missing something. I know that e-smith is running both mysql and php. However, when I attempt to run any php code, right out of a text book, It doesn't execute the php. I have read the manual, several of them to determine if a config file must be present in each html directory. Can't find any reference. What am I missing? doesn't the suffix of php trigger the interpreter? TIA

[thomas]

no you need to put around your php-code AND the file needs the extension .php ... this together declares it as PHP-code.