CMS Made Simple 2.0 (not 1.7) is in development
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:38 pm
Edit: We used to call this 1.7... but now, due to the amount of stuff we've changed, we decided to call it 2.0... you may wanna read the new roadmap.
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Just to keep you guys all up to date on what is happening, I thought I'd drop in a quick note on what we're up to for further development.
CMS Made Simple 1.7 is currently in development. It will be a significant change from the 1.6 series, will solve alot of older problems, will provide alot more functionality, and will move forward with technology. Below is a brief list of the major items that will be visible.
We are hoping for CMS Made Simple 1.7 to be out sometime this coming winter.
Technology
- We will be using the full adodb, not adodb_lite, which has not been actively developed in a while, and kinda limits us on some of the things we can do.
- We will be adding support for sqlite (hopefully). Infact I'm already using an sqlite database for my development install
- We will be requiring PHP 5.2+, and forever breaking PHP4 support.
Features:
- We will be adding support so that modules can be used to provide blocks in the content page... i.e: A News category dropdown could be added to your template to allow specifying a news category, that you could then use in your template to display the appropriate category of News... there's lots of potential for functionality here.
- We'll be working around the stupid IE issue with respect to image buttons on forms.
- We'll be re-working the menu manager to allow for recursive menu templates, which will give you alot more power o
- The menu manager will be moved along even further to completely get rid of the file based menu templates.
- Modules will be able to add bulk content actions (i.e: copy multiple pages).
- A new tinyurl like mechanism will be added which provides a happy medium between pretty URLS, and the ugly, but feature rich URL mechanism. (we're still thinking about this).
Fixes/Improvements
- Thumbnail behaviour will be moved from the image manager into global settings, so that it is more easily configurable.
- We'll be replacing the huge, and bloated TinyMCE module with a Tiny-Lite for basic wysiwyg functionality only. The full TinyMCE will be available as a third party addon module.
There's also alot of programming related stuff that will be added into 1.7, we'll tell you more about later... I just wanted to get your mouth drooling.
--
Just to keep you guys all up to date on what is happening, I thought I'd drop in a quick note on what we're up to for further development.
CMS Made Simple 1.7 is currently in development. It will be a significant change from the 1.6 series, will solve alot of older problems, will provide alot more functionality, and will move forward with technology. Below is a brief list of the major items that will be visible.
We are hoping for CMS Made Simple 1.7 to be out sometime this coming winter.
Technology
- We will be using the full adodb, not adodb_lite, which has not been actively developed in a while, and kinda limits us on some of the things we can do.
- We will be adding support for sqlite (hopefully). Infact I'm already using an sqlite database for my development install
- We will be requiring PHP 5.2+, and forever breaking PHP4 support.
Features:
- We will be adding support so that modules can be used to provide blocks in the content page... i.e: A News category dropdown could be added to your template to allow specifying a news category, that you could then use in your template to display the appropriate category of News... there's lots of potential for functionality here.
- We'll be working around the stupid IE issue with respect to image buttons on forms.
- We'll be re-working the menu manager to allow for recursive menu templates, which will give you alot more power o
- The menu manager will be moved along even further to completely get rid of the file based menu templates.
- Modules will be able to add bulk content actions (i.e: copy multiple pages).
- A new tinyurl like mechanism will be added which provides a happy medium between pretty URLS, and the ugly, but feature rich URL mechanism. (we're still thinking about this).
Fixes/Improvements
- Thumbnail behaviour will be moved from the image manager into global settings, so that it is more easily configurable.
- We'll be replacing the huge, and bloated TinyMCE module with a Tiny-Lite for basic wysiwyg functionality only. The full TinyMCE will be available as a third party addon module.
There's also alot of programming related stuff that will be added into 1.7, we'll tell you more about later... I just wanted to get your mouth drooling.