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I like to thank NaN for the contribution as well. Sorry for the late reply, but sometimes I don't get notifications of new forum posts, so I completely missed it until now.

Preferably you set directories to 755 and files to 644, making them writable just for the owner, which is the web server. In some cases, depending on your server configuration, you can safely set directory and file permissions to 775 and 664 respectively. Setting permission levels to 777 is never a ...

Thank you for the extensive and valuable feedback. I took a close look at the menu template and see what you mean. Because the menu template already contains a check for $node->current, I used that to initialize a variable $currentNode, which I can then use in my main template instead of the $node I...

Interesting suggestion. Not sure if she is eager to answer questions from all of her readers though. I hoped the CMSMS forum was the appropriate place for this kind of questions. Your short answer more or less implies that either the availability and/or actual value of $node are specific for the sit...

I'm not quite sure if this is the right forum to post this issue. If not, don't hesitate to say so and/or move this topic elsewhere. I'm new to CMSMS but have solid experience with Joomla! and some experience with Drupal. A few days ago I purchased the excellent book CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner’s ...

Thanx! Let's get the book and start with 1.7.1 then.

The title of the book CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner’s Guide indicates it was written for CMSMS version 1.6. However, since a couple of weeks CMSMS version 1.7.1 is available. Does anyone know if the book is suited to use in combination with version 1.7.1 as well, or is it advisable to use it in comb...

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm still too unfamiliar with CMSMS to tell the difference between the two approaches, but I'll look into it.

I sincerely apologize if I offended anybody. Having said that, I don't think being "closed minded" is ever a good thing. On the contrary; being very "open minded" is the only way to even come close to developing the best CMS. I don't want to offend anybody, but I do detest prejud...

Thanks for the tips. I'll have a look at Template externalizer as soon as I can find the time. However. untill I'm sure CMSMS is an acceptable alternative for certain commercial projects, I have to consider it a private hobby project and unfortunately I don't have much time to spend on hobbies :) Ho...

I'm afraid I'm not able to get any clearer than I have been in my previous posts. Like I mentioned, apart from advantages, there are also some disadvantages to the "templates in the database" approach and I simply want to know if it's still possible to use regular files. Secondly I want to...

I realize that English is not my native language, but is it really that unclear what I'm trying to achieve?

Thanks for the follow up. No it won't work with anything in the database. What are you trying to do? I consider Smarty's {include} extremely powerfull from a maintainance perspective. However, by default it only works with regular filesand not with templates which are stored in the database. Scannin...

Thanks for your swift reply. In my opinion there is not a big difference among including file or retrieving template as variable from DB. What exactly do you mean with "retrieving template as variable from DB"? How does that compare to including a file using the {include} tag? Actually it ...

I'm quite an experienced software developer, acquainted with various other CMS's (Joomla!, Drupal, etc.) but completely new to CMS Made Simple. I also never used Smarty but have some experience with patTemplate. I have a few newbie questions, to which I haven't been able to find answers in the Docum...