MiniCMS for CPG1.5?

[lamama]

I fear I will get sued for starting this one here, but the 1.4 thread is locked, http://cpg-contrib.org/ seems to be knocked out and it looks like Donnoman hasn't been active here for several months.

From the MiniCMS thread:

The Coppermine dev team recommends using this plugin - we think that it's a great advantage to have.

Any idea if this great plugin (or something similar) will be available for cpg1.5? Any attempt to migrate any of my active galleries to 1.5.x would be quite worthless without the features of MiniCMS...  :'(

[Pascal YAP]

Yes it's true. It seem MiniCMS do'nt work as expected with CPG 1.5.1. !!!
But i remember around 1.5.x #svn 6000, MiniCMS worked perfectly 

[Paver]

During the alpha phase, we're hoping that plugin authors and/or any others (when authors are no longer active or are busy) will modify 1.4 plugins for use in 1.5.  Any one can contribute, so if you have the skills, take a look and see what you can do.

[Joachim Müller]

I fear I will get sued for starting this one here, but the 1.4 thread is locked, http://cpg-contrib.org/ seems to be knocked out and it looks like Donnoman hasn't been active here for several months.

Hehe, you won't get sued, but actually this thread doesn't belong on the bugs board for cpg1.5.x, so I'm moving it accordingly.

Any idea if this great plugin (or something similar) will be available for cpg1.5? Any attempt to migrate any of my active galleries to 1.5.x would be quite worthless without the features of MiniCMS...  :'(

I can see the point: if the MiniCMS was not available for cpg1.5.x, that would certainly be a show-stopper for the upgrade from cpg1.4.x to cpg1.5.x for those who currently use that plugin.
However, it's beyond the scope of the dev team to convert plugins: each dev team member is free to convert plugins or come up with new ones. But as Paver suggested there's no guarantee that anyone will, so if you want to make sure, you might consider to start working on it.
I can say one thing for sure: I will not port it .

But i remember around 1.5.x #svn 6000, MiniCMS worked perfectly 

I can can confirm Pascal's observation - it used to work for a while after the the Inspektification.

If you plan to actually port the plugin for cpg1.5.x I suggest to get a CVS checkout from the repository of cpg-contrib and use that as a base.

[lamama]

If you plan to actually port the plugin for cpg1.5.x I suggest to get a CVS checkout from the repository of cpg-contrib and use that as a base.

No plans, I guess thats far beyond my coding skills 

[Ludo]

I asked Donnoman by email about this issue. He's going to take a look at it.

[Hein Traag]

Any news from the miniCMS front?

[lamama]

I asked Donnoman by email about this issue. He's going to take a look at it.

Hmmm... sure?
what if not?

[Pascal YAP]

All Dev,

Yes, this is a very serious problem.
Personally, my gallery used very intensively MiniCMS.
MiniCMS is, in my opinion, one of the best plugin for Coppermine.
Unfortunately, i'm lacking the ability to modify the MiniCMS's code.
Because that, I know I would not upgrade to 1.5.x

I know, like all of us, I'm not the only MiniCMS's user, so I guess already that I'm not the only one who'll do'nt want to upgrade to 1.5.x.
Thus it's very important to offer this plugin in agreement with 1.5.x

IMO 

[Αndré]

I never had a look at the MiniCMS code. But I think basically all $_GET/$_POST vars has to be replaced with $superCage as described here.

[Gene-2008]

Is this the best place to get the latest that there is on miniCMS since the site http://cpg-contrib.org/ is down?

Gene

[Gene-2008]

Is this the best place to get the latest that there is on miniCMS since the site http://cpg-contrib.org/ is down?

Gene

Forgot to add the "this" http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpg-contrib/files/MiniCMS/1.7/

Sorry,
Gene

[Joachim Müller]

Yes, the CVS should contain the most recent files as far as we can tell.

[lamama]

Because that, I know I would not upgrade to 1.5.x

Me too. I'd love to upgrade my main gallery. CPG 1.5 looks great so far, but the missing MiniCMS keeps me from testing it under 'real' conditions.

Have there ever been considerations to add some basic CMS-like functionality to the CPG-core? Maybe it would make more sense - instead of riding a dead horse (I fear miniCMS is one).

[phill104]

I very much doubt adding a cms to the core would ever be done. Coppermine is a photo app, not a cms. There are many fully fledged cms systems out there so let's leave those to do what they are good at and let coppermine be the best photo app out there.

[lamama]

Not 'real' CMS stuff, were talking about miniCMS here.

But adding some notes and additional text to gallery pages. I could hardly imagine working with CPG without being able to do that.

[Joachim Müller]

28 files in the minimcms folder that contain the strings $_GET, $_POST or $_SERVER. Just a lot of work to "inspektify"...

Read http://documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/en/dev_superglobals.htm for details in case you're ready to do the job.

[Αndré]

I think I'll have some spare time the next 3 days and can change the appropriate lines.

[lamama]

any news?

[Joachim Müller]

No