Re: Re: cvs: php4 / TODO

eschmid+sic@s.netic.de wrote: > My company sells a content management system. It could be > called application server. It's based on Unix/Apache/MySQL/PHP. > The customer have to install ASP himself or we will install > it ourself. An appserver and a CMS are two different things. A CMS is a system for creating, managing and indexing content, helping you to - create content using web based or native authoring tools, - manage content by providing a versioning mechanism, and a staging platform where new content can be tested, reviewed and released into production - index content by providing a search engine or other search facilities as well as an automatically generated content navigation. Basically, a CMS uses dynamic content generation techniques to manage static content and apply a dynamic layout on top of this static content. Also, the CMS provides a lot of "offline" infrastructure in the content creation area. An application server provides the means to enable the stateless HTTP protocol to transparently run stateful applications. One such application could be a CMS or the deployment component of a CMS, but the appserver is not limited to this. Also, there are newer CMS which contain a number of predefined applications such as calendaring systems, text retrieval systems or web mail systems as insertable components into a layout. More generally, such CMS sometimes provide methods to hook arbitrary appserver based applications into a layout to enable integration of completely dynamic content. Kristian -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE AG Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel Tel: +49 431 386 436 00, Fax: +49 431 386 435 99 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/