Re: [NTG-context] Context manuals

[Henning Hraban Ramm <angerweit@gmx.net>]

Am Freitag, 18. Oktober 2002 22:44 schrieb Jens-Uwe Morawski:
> > While nobody seems to be interested in helping to expand this FAQ
> > database, I'm thinking about replacing it with a CMS like PostNuke.
> Hmm, wonder what this is. But, hey, i'm interested in your FAQ.

Thank you for volunteering!

What a CMS is? "Content Management System", a portal frame etc.
PostNuke is based on PHPNuke, written in PHP (what I can use on "my" server).

> - i don't want to enter those many FAQs via the web-interface

I would take SQL or something other, too.

> - IMO a FAQ should support different topics/sections (maybe also sub... )

You are right, and that's the reason why I will change the actual structure.

But at a first glance I found that such a CMS (or at least PostNuke) is not 
what we need here:
-- I look for one CMS for all of my different pages, therefore it must be 
multilingual: most is only interesting in german, but this FAQ will stay 
english etc. (PN *is* multilingual, but not in the needed way)
-- It must be possible to mirror the whole system in an easy way between the 
public web server and my local (dial-up) LAN. (Unsure if the several database 
tables of PN will survive dumping, copying etc.)
-- Not only you but me too should be able to prepare entries offline (that's 
one reason for mirroring); CMS seem to be shrinked to the web interface.
-- We need a simple user management. The CMS would provide that; what I do at 
the moment is too complicated for more than a few users -- I use "htaccess" 
files, that is, users must be added in a users and a group file for access 
and additionally in the database for information like homepage that the user 
himself may change. I don't know how to write a secure user accounting 
myself.

> - the KEYWORD field should be replaced by a drop-down menu,
>   since the user cannot know what key-words are available

No, I don't think so. Some structure should/will be given fixed,
but authors should enter keywords themselves -- keywords are searched and 
should be found with an other than the visible question.

Structure/hierarchy is needed for an complete ConTeXt/PDF output, that 
shouldn't be totally chaotic...

Grüßlis vom Hraban!
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Henning Hraban Ramm
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