omniuni wrote:, I'd be happy to send you the code if you like. .
Sure. Like you said probably not what I need but I'd be happy to look... Will not judge unless it asked for me to judge.
PCSpectra wrote:I experimented with something very similar a few years ago and I have to tell you...using a database and .htaccess for SEF/SEO URI's makes things so much easier.
I would like to use an approach like Zend Framework does with it's routes, but Zend_Navigation leaves lots to be desired. I may just end up using that for my menus though, and rolling my own way to define "page relationships" with an XML file that accompanies the page. And will probably grab an off the shelf gallery script like zen gallery. Not sure yet.
I like the way Zend handles URLs because you tell it:
- my route is named "about_featureX"
- my route corresponds to Module: about, controller: features, action: x, and whatever parameters you need
- the URL pattern {insert pattern here} should map to this route
Then when you link to the page you use the route name only, so later the controller or modules could be re-organized. How does Joomla handle change? For instance if I want to rename just my modules, I can do so without affecting any of the linking pages, and without changing the URLs. If I want to change just the URL, I can...
My existing implementation just uses Zend_View for templates, and everything else is being done by hand. Not a big problem yet but as I roll out more pages I could foresee the need to change them
I was also looking for the same kind of thing for external links. It could use a database back-end but I prefer to not have to open a web browser, to for instance edit a page.
Just for your reference since the thread is getting some response, these are the pages I am generating: (these features pages)
http://vehiclefits.com/about/faceted.php,
http://vehiclefits.com/modules/paint.php,
http://vehiclefits.com/modules/wheel.php etc...
My Main reasons for wanting a CMS is to abstract the URLs, and maybe abstract the little idiom I was following at the bottom of each page with the related pages and related videos and such. If you notice on some pages I have related news and they are outbound links as well.
Maybe I need to just learn XSLT.