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Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

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Post by lebowen » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 10:00 AM UTC

faulancer wrote: post #40

lebowen wrote: post #37

It looks pretty. I just wish someone would build a decent CMS on top of silex/symfony/laravel, rather than implement their own framework to drive their CMS, such as in this case (Lime?!). I want all the extensibility of a fully tested framework but with some batteries included. Pagekit looks as though this could cover my needs.

Cockpit is about simplicity. I like it to be lightweight and with a minimum of overhead ... but I also understand you arguments. It's all a matter of taste :)

What overhead is there using silex instead??

Even if there were an overhead, I'd rather have the stability of a fully tested framework than relying on an implementation with no tests.

What you have essentially done is created a framework, which in order for me to extend your CMS, I am going to have to learn. I also would lose the added benefit of not being able to use existing packages for (insert widely used fw here).

I can't really understand why you aren't using composer as well, it seems as though you are managing your own dependencies in the vendor/ folder?

Look, I have respect for you going out and creating your own cms. But I seem to get constantly disappointed when I dig into the nuts and bolts, and unfortunately this one is no different.

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

#42

Post by slake » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 10:00 AM UTC

This is excellent. It's a good frontend for gathering content to deploy on static sites. Getting non-techies to write Markdown is still somewhat of a pain.

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

#43

Post by bobfunk » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 11:33 AM UTC

slake wrote: post #42

This is excellent. It's a good frontend for gathering content to deploy on static sites. Getting non-techies to write Markdown is still somewhat of a pain.

Thought the same, but it doesn't seem like it exposes a REST API for getting at the content during a build of a static site. Seems like it's just meant as the content management part of a dynamic PHP site.

Would be interesting to see an open-source alternative to content API's like Prismic or Contentful.

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

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Post by rplnt » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 12:08 PM UTC

faulancer wrote: post #8

bnejad wrote: post #7

Your text has issues on Windows 8, Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153 m http://i.imgur.com/g9Ey8Fu.png Site looks great though

thank you, I'll investigate the font issue.

Just a note, it's not a Chrome issue only, it looks the same on Opera/presto (Windows as well).

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

#45

Post by pmx » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 12:15 PM UTC

joshka wrote: post #12

faulancer wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just download and try it out...setup takes less then 20sec. If you don't like it, just delete the folder and forget it ;-)

Setting up a vagrant file would really make this an easy thing to install (perhaps a little longer than 20sec).

It won't work with vagrant, it strips out the port number when doing redirects (uses them a lot it appears) so you always end up with failed redirects.

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

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Post by darylteo » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 12:18 PM UTC

wolfwyrd wrote: post #36

darylteo wrote: post #18

Ah beaten to it. I am working on something similar targeted at .NET platform. Definitely hate how bulky CMS's have become. I wouldn't call these CMSes either. I'd rather call them Content Management Platforms.

Have you got this up on GitHub? Sounds like something I'd enjoy contributing to

Sorry its all proof of concepts at this point. Just means I got to work harder.

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

#47

Post by faulancer » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 2:41 PM UTC

bobfunk wrote: post #43

slake wrote: post #42

This is excellent. It's a good frontend for gathering content to deploy on static sites. Getting non-techies to write Markdown is still somewhat of a pain.

Thought the same, but it doesn't seem like it exposes a REST API for getting at the content during a build of a static site. Seems like it's just meant as the content management part of a dynamic PHP site. Would be interesting to see an open-source alternative to content API's like Prismic or Contentful.

you should be able to access content via API - http://getcockpit.com/docs#!api/cockpit-js

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

#48

Post by qmaxquique » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 6:20 PM UTC

afro88 wrote: post #35

qmaxquique wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First you get your terminal.com account (they give you $10 of free credit) and them just start a new instance of that terminal. Once you get it running you will will see the admin panel in the embedded browser or just point yours to -80.terminal.com/cockpit/" rel="nofollow">http:// -80.terminal.com/cockpit/

I get 502 bad gateway after starting the snapshot. Am I missing something? edit - Do this after starting the snapshot: chown www-data:www-data /var/run/php5-* Was just a permissions issue.

Thanks for the heads up. I fixed it here: https://terminal.com/tiny/picFl5Lgl5

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

#49

Post by pedrogpimenta » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 10:42 AM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #33

This is kinda the direction i am going to, while creating sites for clients and a cms for them (iterating on it, every website). Your layout is much nicer though :P PS. I also like the CMS's that use Blocks for creating a website, eg. what https://buildwithcraft.com/ is doing.

Do you know of any open source CMS that is doing this? It's all that I want and it seems no CMS has this out of the box (apart from Craft, of course)

Re: Show HN: Cockpit – Self-hosted API-driven CMS. Manage content once

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Post by pedrogpimenta » Wed, Jul 09, 2014, 11:15 AM UTC

faulancer wrote: post #34

NicoJuicy wrote: post #33

This is kinda the direction i am going to, while creating sites for clients and a cms for them (iterating on it, every website). Your layout is much nicer though :P PS. I also like the CMS's that use Blocks for creating a website, eg. what https://buildwithcraft.com/ is doing.

yepp, it's on my todo list :)

So, you're saying, Cockpit will have editable content blocks so the client can easily structure a page with different kinds of blocks? I might love you if that's it :)