Integrating SC project with CMS

Scriptcase 9
#1

What in your opinion is the best CMS to integrate with SC Project ?
I would divide this into 2 categories:

  • partial integration (only embeding through iFrames)
  • full integration (users database is shared with CMS)

I do not care about sophisticated features, as long as I can create attractive pages/articles.
Here is the list of the few I have available, but I am only familiar with 4 of them.

#2

Wauw soo many CMSs. I don’t have experience in what the best is. Actually the difficulties lie in the fact of how you want to integrate. I use E107 with a wrapper plugin that allows me to embed the application. E107 RBA also allows me to integrate to a foreign user table, but you can also adapt the SC security module to the user database of E107. I did not require deeper integration. And I think you can do this with all the CMSs on the list. So what is your personal preference? WP is an obvious choice because it is widely used (and hacked). I don’t like it, but there is a reason why it is popular. But there are many more on your list, how complex does your site needs to be?

#3

I’ve seen your post about E107. I am asking others what is their experience. When I say “full integration” I mean integrating with the user data table. Either on the CMS side or SC side. I tried the prior and id not have good experience.
As an example - user password should be stored in one place only. There are tens of password encryption methods and SC is only limited to 2-3. Now, when we need to use CMS implementation there is the problem. Some CMS systems have API lib but so far I was not successful connecting to that API.
One of the things Netmake should implement is to allow to read-write to external user tables through the API. At least they should cover the major ones (WP,Joomla,Drupal…).
Unfortunately NETMAKE never listens to the users :frowning:

#4

Are you suggesting that E107 stores the passwords in many places? I can think of a 1000 reasons why not to use E107, but I managed to create pretty good integration using the database of E107…
I don’t think that integration in a CMS is a real market for any generator, especially when it is about integrating on user level.
User support is something I can agree upon, it is close to nothing. It has been since I started using it with version 5, it has improved (yes it was even worse), but still not on par.
A final thought, most CMS are built around responsive technologies. A static SC application might break that responsiveness. But if you have designed your application to run on mobile devices, it could be not a problem for you.

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#5

@aklass
I did a kind of integration for WordPress.

It can retrieve / generate / update posts and pages, plus the corresponding media, bookmarks, …
Working via API the content will then be shown by the independently running Wordpress (responsive).
Also Wordpress is responsible for the SEO indexing, etc. Why reinvent that technology if using a specialized CMS.

I.e. the user can then choose where to edit the posts and pages. Either in Wordpress itself or in the Scriptcase application. Why? Within Scriptcase you can also use other information to automatically build pages. For example out of a training management system (description of the trainings).

@aducom:
I agree that the integration in Wordpress via iframe, which has been shown in a Scriptcase video, is not great. As you mentioned regarding the responsiveness but also cause of SEO issues and others.

Wordpress vs other CMS:
You’re right that Wordpress has it’s issues, but it seems to be the most used CMS around, it is maintained and pretty good documented.

I never worked into the user administration of Wordpress, but maybe there is an API too.

#6

It is really a shame that NETMAKE completely ignores this topic. I do not care which CMS they could integrate with but at least one would be nice. They obviously completely ignore what users want, and they they are suprised they do not grow as a company.

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