Free Flat-File CMSs Reviewed, Part 5
Saturday, 30. May 2009, 15:11:13
Gosh! Has it been eight months! I still haven't gotten around to looking at those flat-file wikis!
"Soon".
I promise!
This post is more a failure report than anything else. I'd recently been pointed in the direction of CMS Made Simple. This is NOT a flat-file CMS - it needs a database. Nevertheless, I gave it's online demo a whirl and came away very impressed. I want one!
However, I still need flat file support. Hmmmm ... CMSms has ADOdb Lite support. Lanius uses Gladius as its database - and Gladius has an ADOdb Lite driver! Maybe that will work!
Of course not! That would be too easy. I've just spent two days fiddling with Gladius and CMSms trying to get the two to talk to each other. It's close, but not close enough.
Technically, Gladius has two "showstoppers" that I'm aware of and can't (easily) work around:
I've submitted everything as either feature requests or bugs.
Aggregate functions used to work in 0.7.0, so surely fixing 0.8.1 can't be a huge task? Support of non-numeric key fields sounds like a more fundamental problem, however. Fingers-crossed the Gladius developers can do something - I really like CMSms!
"Soon".
I promise!
This post is more a failure report than anything else. I'd recently been pointed in the direction of CMS Made Simple. This is NOT a flat-file CMS - it needs a database. Nevertheless, I gave it's online demo a whirl and came away very impressed. I want one!
However, I still need flat file support. Hmmmm ... CMSms has ADOdb Lite support. Lanius uses Gladius as its database - and Gladius has an ADOdb Lite driver! Maybe that will work!
Of course not! That would be too easy. I've just spent two days fiddling with Gladius and CMSms trying to get the two to talk to each other. It's close, but not close enough.
Technically, Gladius has two "showstoppers" that I'm aware of and can't (easily) work around:
- Key fields must be numeric - string fields are not supported.
- Aggregate functions (min, max, etc) are not working, but used to.
I've submitted everything as either feature requests or bugs.
Aggregate functions used to work in 0.7.0, so surely fixing 0.8.1 can't be a huge task? Support of non-numeric key fields sounds like a more fundamental problem, however. Fingers-crossed the Gladius developers can do something - I really like CMSms!
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