After trying in vain for several hours to locate a content management system that did not use a database (and was easy to understand), I gave up and decided to improve upon the one I had already built. Although this may seem like a continuation of that project, Yoxis was built from scratch to improve upon the methods used previously. Download yoxis_v10.tgz (version 1.0, 9.24 KB) There are still a couple of problems with this release that I want to fix. HTML encoding in the entries is troublesome (i.e., sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't) You cannot change the category that a file is in by editing it You cannot post articles without a category There is no installer (not necessary, but nice to have) A live example is up and running, and I would greatly appreciate any comments on this - but please, nothing about SQLite or MySQL or PSQL or any variation thereof. - tf P.S. - "Yoxis" is an intentional misspelling of "y-axis," which implies that this piece of software is very narrowly defined. Think like a "niche." edit: fixed download link and live link
Live Version (with admin) Online I posted a live version with admin (this one's for you, TekMonkey) to my site so that you can try out the admin panel. My only plea is that you do not delete the entry that is already there. - tf
In response to the last three posts and IRC banter, let me explain why I chose to write a flat-file CMS as opposed to one that uses SQLite, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, or BerekelyDB. The main reason is simplicity. If you are familiar with Blosxom, that is similar to what I was aiming for. If the program only requires one thing (PHP) to use, it makes it much easier to set up. You can avoid having to install SQL, set it up, create a database and user, etc. It also makes my program much more streamlined, as the functions I have written only do what I need them to do (i.e., not much overhead). So please, don't comment on the fact that it is flat-file (it's going to stay that way). I'd like some feedback on the features (what you want, did it behave as expected, etc.) and bugs (I've already noticed a few). - tf
I fixed the download link (sorry, change to a new system) and fixed the link to the live version. If you're interested in following this project, the future features have been posted. I plan to have all of them bundled with version 1.1, which should be released in about two weeks. - tf
the live link doesn't seem to be working now, im also currently in the process of building a cms but with mysql. will show you all soon once ive got the next stage out the way.
The link was working, but the page didn't have any files on it and was showing an error (something I plan to fix in the next version). If you want to test out the live version, go to the admin panel and look around. - tf
Okay, since nobody else was going to do it, I just added a category and 2 or 3 files. Looks kind of interesting, not a bad little tool at all!
dito was playing arround again and I have discovered that if you create a new category and then click add a post to this new category and then post it. it doesn't go into ure new category. Then, try and move it and it simply duplicates it into both categories.
Will, I don't know if you checked this when you tried to add a file, but you still have to hit the radio button next to the category. It doesn't happen automatically (yet... ) - tf
Despite the drop of comments in this thread, I've been doing some work on my project, and I'm getting ever to the version 1.1 release. I'm still looking for more opinions about features and bugs (I think I addressed most of them so far, but there are always more). - tf
A user resricted area. Where you can add, Delete, mod members, and there access rights via the CP, Of coarse not using SQL. <-- Thats a challenge .
