Kelly has the right idea. Drupal also has a lot of regional support.
User groups everywhere and a passionate community. Awesome combo for a
good application. Plus some pretty high profile clients:
Whitehouse.gov
Rockbottom.com
And many more :-)
Regards,
Mike
mike.p@xxxxxxxx Cell: (408)679-1011 Office: (815)722-3454
Zend Server for IBM i Beta avilable at
http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/zend-server-5-new-ibmi
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Kelly Cookson
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:06 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Basi question on web page content
If you decide to go with a CMS like Drupal on the IBM I (AS400), then
you might consider getting the new Zend server so you don't have
problems with the reverse proxy server used by Zend Core.
If you used Drupal, users could simply create pages themselves in
wiki-like fashion. You can install modules that give users WYSIWYG
editing capabilities, but I find these modules a little buggy and the
html code they generate is horrendous. I prefer to have my users format
pages with BBCode or with simple HTML (with the assistance of an editor
called BUEditor).
I've set up several sites with Drupal. It took a couple of days to find
my way around the administration pages, but I like Drupal. I can now set
up a complete website with login, control over user permissions, search
capabilities, user blogs, wiki-like books, forums, and individual pages
in less than a day. That includes having the site look the way I want it
to look.
I recommend a Drupal theme called Sky. It has some decent configuration
options, and I've been able to understand the underlying code well
enough to customize it. Some themes are more convoluted than others at
the code level.
Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com
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On Behalf Of TAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 8:26 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Basi question on web page content
As others have stated, it sounds like you want a content management
system
(CMS). There are a slew of them available that are based on PHP so you
will have a lot of options
Thanks,
Todd Allen
EDPS
Electronic Data Processing Services
tallen@xxxxxxxxxxxx
David FOXWELL
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Hi,
I'm still learning the basics, but I have a little site that uses
php/mySql
and CSS. I can also use XML/XSL. Any text that I put in my pages are
hardcoded in the php or html files. Now, someone will be regularly
writing
new text articles for the site. How do you normally get the text onto
the
page? I mean, where would it be stored so that a page could be
regenerated
if the style were to change? I was thinking of copying the text to XML
and
generating HTML from these pages. But is it usual for the developer to
take
the text written by the user and edit it in this way?
Also, what is meant exactly by static or dynamic pages? I'm thinking
that a
dynamic page is one that is generated after the http request, and a
static
page exists already at that point.
Thanks.
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