scriptygoddess

1 | Amy

May 7th, 2002 at 1:17 pm

For lack of sounding like a Spice Girl, "I tell you what I want…what I really really want…"

…is a fully-featured CMS with entries in database format. No rebuilding — something honest-to-God, truly dynamic. The raw text for my cat.net entries is teetering close to nine megs, and no matter how you slice it, that's a horrific rebuilding job.

Good thing I have a DIY mentality. (Sigh.)

2 | kristine

May 7th, 2002 at 1:44 pm

So is there anything out there that's close to that, Amy? (you are still using GM, right?) I haven't tried any php blogging solutions, but it seems like that would cut out rebuilding… A php system seems like it wouldn't give the same control over config with multiple authors without a lot of setup, but maybe…

DIY – do it yourself?

3 | Amy

May 7th, 2002 at 1:53 pm

You're right — there isn't an existing solution. If there was, I would convert in a heartbeat. The only thing I've come up with that satisfies my needs is a combination of PHP and mySQL.

So yeah, that might explain why my recent little projects for cat.net have involved PHP, mySQL, forms/cookie handling, and now session IDs… I'm building up a codebase to work from.

Frustration and necessity: the mothers of all coding binges.

4 | Tobias

May 7th, 2002 at 2:19 pm

have you taken a look at pMachine yet? I don't know if this is something that would satisfy your needs, but it certainly looks promising. I've heard a lot of positive stuff about it from some of my German blogger colleagues =)

And yeah, I learned about Nucleus today, yet another choice.