Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
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jack_indigo
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Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
Have you guys seen http://cushycms.com/ yet? It's free for the basic version. A PHP colleague of mine shared that with me. It's pretty cool in some respects, but I'm sure as a PHP programmer you'll have some worries about using this service, and you'll want to adapt it.
Basically it's a free online web page editor for other sites. It does this by interacting with other sites via FTP and special tags in the page where the content should be editable. However, you have to trust that the cushycms site will always be available, and that the FTP passwords can't be hacked (although the guy says the passwords are encrypted).
After a few minutes of thought, you realize that it lacks the capability of a full-blown CMS, such as excerpts on the homepage, article archive, article search, and gadgets that provide functionality, such as a photo gallery with a lightbox effect. It's a simplistic system.
But, as a PHP programmer, I'm sure the gears in your mind will turn when you see a site like this. You'll realize that it could be reproduced fairly easily, and you might even have the opportunity to provide other features like article excepts, article archive, and article search. I also wouldn't suggest this being something that sits up on a public site. Instead, it should be put as an admin page on the same domain as a site. Therefore, it's a downloadable script that gets stuck on the server.
But then if you're going to go through all that trouble, you might as well install something like TextPattern or WordPress and be done with it.
Still, Cushy CMS has its usefulness in some places. For instance, I have a portfolio site of static HTML pages, and I could use Cushy to update it.
Basically it's a free online web page editor for other sites. It does this by interacting with other sites via FTP and special tags in the page where the content should be editable. However, you have to trust that the cushycms site will always be available, and that the FTP passwords can't be hacked (although the guy says the passwords are encrypted).
After a few minutes of thought, you realize that it lacks the capability of a full-blown CMS, such as excerpts on the homepage, article archive, article search, and gadgets that provide functionality, such as a photo gallery with a lightbox effect. It's a simplistic system.
But, as a PHP programmer, I'm sure the gears in your mind will turn when you see a site like this. You'll realize that it could be reproduced fairly easily, and you might even have the opportunity to provide other features like article excepts, article archive, and article search. I also wouldn't suggest this being something that sits up on a public site. Instead, it should be put as an admin page on the same domain as a site. Therefore, it's a downloadable script that gets stuck on the server.
But then if you're going to go through all that trouble, you might as well install something like TextPattern or WordPress and be done with it.
Still, Cushy CMS has its usefulness in some places. For instance, I have a portfolio site of static HTML pages, and I could use Cushy to update it.
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Re: Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
This sounds a lot like an advertisement.
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Re: Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
Meh, it's not open source. -100.
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Re: Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
How can you adapt it if it is hosted elsewhere? To be honest I wouldn't touch this with a 10 foot pole (I even watched the 6 minute video).jack_indigo wrote:Have you guys seen http://cushycms.com/ yet? It's free for the basic version. A PHP colleague of mine shared that with me. It's pretty cool in some respects, but I'm sure as a PHP programmer you'll have some worries about using this service, and you'll want to adapt it.
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Re: Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
You can adapt it if you simply take the concepts in your mind and rewrite it yourself. It's not that hard -- just a fancy interface on top of ftp API along with tiny_mce.
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Re: Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
Your PR led me to believe your system is adaptable. I would suggest rewording your first paragraph is this isn't the case.jack_indigo wrote:You can adapt it if you simply take the concepts in your mind and rewrite it yourself. It's not that hard -- just a fancy interface on top of ftp API along with tiny_mce.
Re: Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
Hi there - kind of new to these boards, so apologies if I am missing something (I plead "newbie!"Jcart wrote:Your PR led me to believe your system is adaptable. I would suggest rewording your first paragraph is this isn't the case.jack_indigo wrote:You can adapt it if you simply take the concepts in your mind and rewrite it yourself. It's not that hard -- just a fancy interface on top of ftp API along with tiny_mce.
Came across this post because (although I don't have php development chops) after seeing cushyCMS had the same thoughts as Jack_Indigo. With all due respect to some of those who responded, I'm not getting the feeling J_I is promoting/advertising CushyCMS (lord knows they seem to be doing ok word-of-mouth-wise on their own in the blogosphere), nor do I get the sense he's been misleading.
CushyCMS is gorgeously simple - I develop websites for non-techy folks who need an online presence to promote non-online stuff (think hairstylists, bartenders, massage therapists, plumbers, etc.). They often want to be able to update their site with promotions, etc. and I'd like to be able to offer that option without having to do it myself for them. Many cms systems are kind of overkill - cushycms just works.
In other words, my mom could use it.
That said, I'm not comfortable sending clients to a third party branded site, and am not sure I want to pay $28/month for a service I have to give FTP access to. It would be sweet to be able to install a similar script on my own server - I just haven't seen anything quite as nice out there. (yes, there is the option of wordpress, tinymce, fckeditor - but this one just has a nice flow to it)
I came across this post for the same reason I think it was posted - I saw the site, want it's technology, and have to believe it's not that hard to replicate. I don't have much money in the bank (living hand-to-mouth) but would happily use what I have to invest in having it developed.
@jack_indigo - hope someone takes your idea to heart. Even better, if they did so in an open source way - I think there really is a space for this!
Re: Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
OpenSource > *.
Watched the video.. eh. =/
Watched the video.. eh. =/
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Re: Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
We're only talking an FTP tool with TinyMCE and some stored settings. For security reasons, would be great to have as a local admin system to an existing site, especially if it also had the power to drop in excerpts on one page which then link to articles on another page. Maybe just have the excerpts open up an inline div in the same page but show the article content?fayzee wrote:@jack_indigo - hope someone takes your idea to heart. Even better, if they did so in an open source way - I think there really is a space for this!