Have You Seen Cushy CMS?
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:44 pm
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.