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Putting a CMS Behind Your Existing Website
29-Jul-2005 --
Which came first, your CMS or your website? Probably the latter. But if your
website employs a lot of dynamic logic, how do you preserve that investment
while backing it with a CMS? Although not suitable for all use cases, one approach
is to completely decouple your CMS and delivery environments. Percussion
has aggressively advocated this approach and Refresh
Software has simplified it to an extreme by handing off a populated database
to your web tier. Conversely, Ektron
has a bundled CMS and delivery architecture, but the company recently announced
that its CMS400.NET product supports multiple scripting languages, including
PHP, JSP, and ColdFusion for content delivery. Note that CMS400 still serves
the content at run-time, and you must modify your existing scripts to access
Ektron-managed items. Here's some sample PHP code for retrieving a specific
list index from the respository: <?PHP ecmListSummary ("MarketingNews",0,1,"", "Title,asc", "DateModified",0,"","");
?>, taken from Ektron's public documentation (pdf).
- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst
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