I couldn’t sleep this night for having too much ideas and thoughts about x:o (XOOPS.ORG) blowing in my head. Was it a dream? So I’m up tonight. No Panic and … sorry Susan! No it isn’t regular that I’m dreaming about a CMS

Here is One topic out of my head with a high priority (at least for me). To make XOOPS a real CMS or in other words, a bit more than "just a ContentModule Managing System" or "just a Community Management System" WE will NEED at least the option of managing First- and Second-Level Navigation (and –Content) within XOOPS CORE. Let me tell you what I mean by saying this. The best solution I’m used to use is actually presented by Wordpress (hey, I don’t know much about other systems ).

To devs: Give us the ability to create simple html or php pages with our own content and the ability to take influence on the kind of creating URLS to this content.

Let me create a page with title "site-information" and let me use this page as single- or category site. Let me create another site with title "about" and let me use "site-information" as a base if I have chosen "site-information" to be a category site.

Let me get the following URLS :
http://mydomain.tld/site-information.html(.php)

or if chosen this site to be a category site:
http://mydomain.tld/site-information/

and let me create then:

http://mydomain.tld/site-information/about.html(.php)



Needed?
Perhaps an option in Admin-> Preferences:
Manage first-, second-level content?: YES/NO
USE SHORT URLS for this content?: YES/NO
Use first-, second-level navigation within mainmenu?: YES/NO

Give us an additional simple Form (area) in Admin to submit our first- and second-level content.

FORM:


SINGLE Content Site or Category Site?: dropdown (Single/Category)
USE Category for this site?: dropdown (home, all available categories)

Title: INPUT HERE
Use title for URL like http://yourdomain.tld/title.php?: (YES/NO) [option fields]
(if no, content will be displayed like index.php?id=23, no displaying of categories in url)


Content: INPUT HERE
(You may use normal Text or HTML)


ENTER BUTTON TO SUBMIT AND STORE TO DATABASE

To make this dream reality, it will only need some small changes in administration and 2 or 3 mySQL tables, isn’t it? Couldn’t be that hard, could it? Beat me for I’m having NO SKILLS in php




Comments? Please use my XOOPS.org forum-post!


(This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 at 2:58 am)