[opencms-dev] is OpenCms right for us?

[Jason Trump]

If you have a really solid java web development background spanning a
couple of different types of projects, OpenCms will make a lot of sense
to you and it should not take too long to get it up and running.  

If you come from more of a perl/CGI background, you might consider
something more in line with your skills, unless you want to learn a bit
about JSP and java web dev.

I haven't used either of these products, but they've both been
recommended to me before, and might better suit your needs if OpenCms
seems too complex:

Plone:  http://plone.org
PHP-Nuke:  http://phpnuke.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-
> bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Marcus Popetz
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 1:18 PM
> To: The OpenCms mailing list
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] is OpenCms right for us?
> 
> At 12:38 PM 3/23/2006, stuart.powers at gmail.com wrote:
> >How hard is it to migrate our existing content into OpenCms? Can it
be
> >automated in any way (I'm a perl hacker, and if there is a way to do
it
> in
> >perl, I can probably figure it out, but I don't know the underlying
> >OpenCms structure to know if it's even feasable)
> 
> I took data out of a old cms and migrated it into OpenCMS with
> Perl.  Basically, assuming your old templates have nice delimiters
printed
> out in the resulting html (or can have nice delimeters added) like "--
end
> header --" "-- start 1st column --, -- end 1st column --", etc, you
can
> just do suck the site down with wget, parse it into different pieces
(ie:
> a
> directory of 1st column content, 2nd column content, etc).
> 
> 
> After that, opencms has a way to import a zip and assign the uploaded
> content to a element of the template so you can just upload a couple
of
> zip
> files and have it import them into different template elements in
openCMS.
> 
> There is quite a learning curve on OpenCMS (unless I'm a moron and
took
> longer than everyone else).   I hear they're working on a book for
version
> 6.0.  If I had the time, I'd wait until that book comes out.
> 
> -mp
> 
> 
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