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Old 11-07-2003, 05:18 PM   #1
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School Newspaper CMS


I'm trying to set up a website for my school newspaper that's fairly easy to update. I was hoping to run PHPNuke, but my school uses some Microsoft web server stuff and won't let me use other web hosting for liability reasons. What are some other good CMS sites that don't use PHP? I just saw OpenCMS.org, so I'll have to see if I can use Java. Another idea I had was to just have HTML on the server and automatically generate the HTML files on another computer. I guess that's like a template, but I would like to stay away from FrontPage.

There is one important feature I would like: easily defined user levels. The articles are written by students, reviewed by an editor then finally ok'd by a teacher. If I'm using a real CMS (as opposed to a template-like thing), I would like to be able to have all three steps done through the webpage. I was working on something like that for PHPNuke (and the newest version should have that included), but all those plans went down the drain.

Other nift features like calendars and polls would be a bonus.

I would appreciate any comments or examples. Thanks for your time.
 
Old 11-08-2003, 11:17 AM   #2
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phpNuke does run on windows:
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=...General+Info#4
 
Old 11-08-2003, 05:16 PM   #3
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I see that PHPNuke supports Windows, but it says it needs Apache. However, I just found out that PHP can run on other webservers than Apache, so does PHPNuke really need it? I'll have to look into things Monday to see if I can get PHP on whatever they use at school (IIS?).
 
Old 11-09-2003, 04:11 PM   #4
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friend of mine just wrote a website that used flash.
(big wow.. I hear you say) he had a text file with the info in, that was read by his flash program and put on the site. They could update it themselves, it was just a text file...

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Old 11-09-2003, 07:07 PM   #5
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Has he / does he plan to release this?
 
Old 02-02-2005, 06:17 PM   #6
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Newspaper CMS

I see you posed this question about a year ago. I was wondering if you have solved your problem since then. iWebPress is a newspaper CMS that integrates into the worlkflow and manages content as well as publishes online additions instantly to web. I've used the education edition, which is made for high schools and colleges. I really recommend iWebPress for any newspaper CMS solution. I believe the site is www.iwebpress.com
 
Old 02-02-2005, 07:08 PM   #7
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For that purpose, I ended up using PHPNuke. It didn't have what I wanted, but I learnt some PHP and coded the functionality myself. I have it around, but it's not that great and surely doesn't compare to the real CMS solutions available now (like iWebPress).
 
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Are you still using it? If so, would you mind giving me the URL? I'm very curious as to the variety of output from all these newspaper CMS options.
 
Old 02-02-2005, 07:43 PM   #9
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It's not in use anymore. I've since graduated from high school and moved on to university. I can send you a copy, but I honestly have to recommend against it. It's based on an old version of PHPNuke, so it will likely be really out of date and insecure.

I didn't do anything too complicated. I added an extra table that would hold articles submitted by authors but not yet edited. Once an article was edited, it would get moved to another table for final approval. I reused the submission page for an editors page with a few minor changes.

The reason it would be really hard to implement in a new version is because I had to manually (in each relevant php file) add a new "Editors" group because PHPNuke had no such functionality back then. I don't know if it does now, because I have since moved on. I'm working with CMS software again, but this time I'm using Drupal. It has really good access permissions built it. The downside is that it seems to have few addons.
 
Old 02-03-2005, 05:04 AM   #10
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re the flash site:

he was no flash coder... he simply used a free flash code. Since he is now in another country I can't get it from him easily.

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