[Zope] CMF Intro?
Derek Simkowiak
dereks@realloc.net
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:40:26 -0800 (PST)
I see that Zope has these cool things:
o User Management and Permissions control
o Version Control
o Undo
o Web-based GUI for site administration
o ZPT and WebDAV support for working with things like SiteBuilder,
FrontPage, etc. under OS X and WinXP
These are all hallmarks of a great Content Management System. I
can easily see how I'd divide up my clients' corporate website using Zope.
So my question is: WTF is "CMF" for? What problem does it try to
solve? How is it different from, well, plain old Zope?
I've read the "Introduction" at
http://cmf.zope.org/doc/introduction.txt
But it doesn't answer my question. (Honestly, it provides
practically no information whatsoever and reads like a marketing document.
Sorry to whoever wrote it.) It refers to "services" with names like
"SiteDesignServices" and "IntegrationServices", but I have to clue what
those are or where to find more information about them, or why I'd want
them.
I've also read [much of]
http://cmf.zope.org/CMF/Members/beehive/ZWACKChap5.html
...which shows me that CMF hides the Zope admin interface to
endusers. Is that the whole point of CMF? Also, from this I see that CMF
provides basic "types" such as "File", "Document", "Image", and "Folder".
Are these different from Zope's types of the same name? Or are they the
same thing?
I have not yet d/led and installed--that's my next step. But I'd
like to have a document, case study, or demo that I can show my client
before I put more billable hours into this.
Please advise.
Thank You,
Derek Simkowiak