Re: [OSCOM] need a CMS suggestion

Sukrit D wrote:

> The data here would be articles, and the people keying in this data 
> would be people from journalistic background. I want them to type away 
> on their browser, rather than a word processor. Want to be able to 
> have these guys not worry about the technology and processing, but 
> just key in their articles in a rather simple editor and send it off 
> to a central database where it would be tagged.


you might want to consider Yulup  (http://www.yulup.org) for creating 
the content.

After installing Yulup you can test it at http://demo.yulup.org

>
> Considering setting up and evaluating Drupal for this. I know it's a 
> but of an overkill, but I'm not quite finding the right tool for this 
> exercise. Like you mentioned, I'm more confortable using php than 
> java. but if you can suggest something in java that would have an API 
> that should work.


I would suggest to use Yanel (http://yanel.wyona.org), which has a very 
clean Data Abstraction Layer built in and allows you to easily save your 
data into any data repository you prefer, such that you could also 
access it with some other system without a problem (e.g. PHP based).

HTH

Michael

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> SD.
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> On 1/31/07, *Michael Wechner* <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Sukrit D wrote:
>
>     > Hi guys,
>     >
>     > I'm looking for a rather basic CMS for data entry. I want people
>     to be
>     > able to enter data. These people are not quite technically equipped,
>     > so this would need to be something rather simple. I don't need the
>     > data to be displayed, but to go straight into a database. I'd
>     need an
>     > API for the CMS so that I can filter out the data I need and send to
>     > another application.
>
>
>     What kind of data? Addresses of employees, word documents, ...?
>
>     The answer depends on the type of data.
>
>     Also it seems to me that you seem to prefer PHP for accesing the data
>     later on, so I guess it makes sense that you use some
>     PHP based framework. Otherwise I can suggest some Java based ones ;-)
>
>


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