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Re: Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components

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Post by w0rd-driven »

snarkyturtle wrote: post #15

With the explosions of frameworks lately, it's refreshing to see that people are still working on CMSs. It's interesting, though, why they made their own templating language rather than use an existing one (twig, for example, is used by OctoberCMS and there's even a Wordpress plugin.) Also in terms of clients, it'd probably be useful to have a wysiwyg editor or even just editable sub-fields that you can set for each…

Razr is largely inspired by the Razor view engine for ASP.NET. Twig is nice and looks to be inspired by Ruby syntax, something I'm a little more familiar with in using Octopress. Perhaps they wanted to introduce a templating engine that was a little more familiar with someone coming from ASP.NET? I can only really speculate as no definitive reason was given.

Writing their own templating engine is definitely an interesting choice and one that follows the razor syntax makes it even more interesting indeed.

Re: Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components

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Post by sogen »

Killswitch wrote: post #12

Awesome project, being a PHP developer, I was waiting for someone to launch something that could take some share away from Wordpress. I dig Ghost, and their initiative, but I was not thrilled with it going on Node.js as it'll not be adapted by Wordpress users.

Try CouchCMS, easily attach any HTML theme to it.

BTW, the tutorial is very complete, you end up making a job application form, damn!

Re: Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components

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Post by riquito »

w0rd-driven wrote: post #41
snarkyturtle wrote: post #15

With the explosions of frameworks lately, it's refreshing to see that people are still working on CMSs. It's interesting, though, why they made their own templating language rather than use an existing one (twig, for example, is used by OctoberCMS and there's even a Wordpress plugin.) Also in terms of clients, it'd probably be useful to have a wysiwyg editor or even just editable sub-fields that you can set for each…

Razr is largely inspired by the Razor view engine for ASP.NET. Twig is nice and looks to be inspired by Ruby syntax, something I'm a little more familiar with in using Octopress. Perhaps they wanted to introduce a templating engine that was a little more familiar with someone coming from ASP.NET? I can only really speculate as no definitive reason was given. Writing their own templating engine is definitely an intere…

Twig syntax takes from Django/Jinja [1], not Ruby.

[1] http://fabien.potencier.org/article/34/templating-engines-in...

Re: Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components

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Post by sagevann »

Oras wrote: post #6
anteht wrote: post #3

Just a note — when trying to register an account the form rejects my email, but got an activation email after 1-2 minutes anyway. Which also, out of sheer confusion led me to probably double-register under different usernames and multiple email-addresses. Edit: but other than that — looks promising. Will keep an eye on it.

Same happened here

It looks like the form is ajaxing out when you press enter. No 'loading' text or other display and no redirect so browser doesn't indicate it's working.

Re: Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components

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Post by jordanlev »

jasonlfunk wrote: post #11

I've been looking forward to someone publishing a new CMS. WordPress is great, but I've been wanting something new and fresh. I got the alpha installed and it looks good but there is still work to do, but I like what I see. Keep it up!

Try OctoberCMS, ProcessWire, or CouchCMS.

Re: Show HN: Pagekit – A new, modern CMS built with Symfony components

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Post by err4nt »

A little background on the folks who make PageKit: Yootheme is one of the top-3 WordPress theme developers on the market, and they also support other CMS's. They started with Joomla and after developing their own front-end theme framework, they added support for WordPress as well. You could use the same themes across multiple CMS installs - so if you work with their themes it allowed you to be pretty flexible.

After building themes for years, now they have set out to create the CMS they actually want to be using every day, the CMS that doesn't fight back when you need to skin it, and one that lets you do what you need without trying to 'hide' all the settings and options deep inside menus.

I downloaded the alpha and tested it out and I'm thrilled at what I see. I can't wait for this to mature and blossom into a usable product, and with Yootheme behind it I know for sure there will be gorgeous themes available for it! I'm really looking forward to how they solved my pain points working with WordPress, the more I see the more excited I get about this project :)

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