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I really like this CMS, but being that I'm running it on Windows and IIS I not only had some big problems getting through the install (because of the necessary folder permissions), but I'm having some additional troubles with the formatting of pages (again, because of the cache and folder permissions.)

I'm not a php developer, in any sense of the word, but I have installed a few php applications that have given me the option of storing the cache in the database, rather than the file system.  I know that on at least one occasion making this possible meant being able to use the application versus not being able to.  I'd definitely be willing to do any required QA and report back any defects if at all a possibility.

I arrived here via www.opensourcecms.com and have at least made an attempt at installing almost every CMS package listed there, all onto a Windows 2003 box running IIS with php ISAPI v5.0.4.  Some I've had great luck with, others not so much.  To date, CMSms is probably one of the best if not the best when it comes to ease of use and user friendliness (IMHO.)  Straight out of the box I'm able to configure a simple web and I'm definitely not feeling overwhelmed, like I did with Mambo and Dragonfly.  I feel that I could easily design and setup a website for a customer and instruct them on how to update it, leaving it comfortably in their hands without too much worry on my part. 

I've seen some incredible CMSms sites linked to from the 'Show Off' forum and would love to get this up and running so I toss up a few links of my own.  I'll definitely check back often to see what kind of updates have been made, etc.  Thanks for sounding board to voice my suggestion...

Thanks for the kind words.  We're getting pretty up there on the opensourcecms.com ratings list, so we must be doing something right.    (http://opensourcecms.com/index.php?opti ... iew&id=388 -- which is BS.  We were #4 yesterday.  Someone rated us down 5+ times in 12 hours.  The voting system isn't exactly fair...)

Basically, CMSMS is just used the caching that is built into Smarty.  I've never looked into how they do their caching, but I assume that it's pretty well abstracted.  If it's easy enough to move it to the database, I'd be all for it, at least as an option.

Well, look at that...

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/section ... r.func.php

If i was only code-savy enough to know what that means, but your enthusiasm has me optimistic!

wishy wrote: Well, look at that...

http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/section ... r.func.php

on another note - thanks for turning me on to simple machines - I've been big on vBulletin for years now and there's definitely a significant difference in price...!

Yeah, Simple Machines is a nice alternative.  Much cheaper than vBulletin, and way more secure than phpBB. 

As for caching in the database, it's a nice idea.  However, smarty still has to compile templates and we also need a place to upload files.  I don't think there is any full way to get around the permissions issues.  Just have to switch to unix based hosting, I guess. 

wishy wrote: Just have to switch to unix based hosting, I guess. 

I wish I could, I've already got about 20 rather intensely configured domains on this box.  Someday...  Thanks for looking into it!

wishy wrote:
As for caching in the database, it's a nice idea.  However, smarty still has to compile templates and we also need a place to upload files.  I don't think there is any full way to get around the permissions issues.  Just have to switch to unix based hosting, I guess. 

Just a quick note, that actually the uploaded files could be stored into the database as well.

Just a quick note, that actually the uploaded files could be stored into the database as well.

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