Comparative degree of completion for different embed projects
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ManInJapan
Joined: 2003-07-28
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Posted: Tue, 2006-10-24 04:41
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I have used Gallery for years and truly am grateful to all of the Gallery team for their hard work. I consider G2 to be one of the most important aspects of my website. For various reasons, I have decided to "re-evaluate" my current CMS and determine if it would be better to switch or stay put. It has been a few years since I evaluated CMS offerings, and the landscape has changed a bit--so I am keeping an open mind. G2 "embeds" seem to run the gammit from "just put G2 in an i-frame" to pretty seemless. As G2 is my "killer app", I would like to choose a CMS that has a development team (or fan base) interested in staying abreast with embedding each new release of Gallery. I know this is a stretch, but is there any resource that looks across the available CMS offerings to evaluate their "level of integration" (for lack of better words) with Gallery? If there is no such resource, even a "boasting" response to this from various CMS affecionados would be helpful. Something like "My favorite CMS has a G2 bridge that not only keeps users straight, but can ... ". |
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http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Integration:Available_Integrations
there's no list that actually compares them to my knowledge.
i'd say that the joomla, drupal, wordpress and phpnuke integrations are probably the ones that integrate the best.
i'd never recommend phpnuke to anyone as a CMS though, never. but the maintainer of the integration is doing a very good job.
drupal and joomla are great CMS (drupal being used on gallery.menalto.com).
the joomla integration is very well maintained.
drupal a little less so but it's still maintained and that won't change.
the wpg2 team has done a great job and some unique integration features as well. too bad the main contributor is no longer behind that project. and wordpress is more for blogging than a real CMS.
there are a lot of alternatives some of which i never tried and i can hardly comment of them. some are not CMS and are thus not mentioned. they might be great.
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Thank you for the response valiant. The information was very helpful.
I originally started on phpnuke, and moved away for a few good reasons some years ago. At the moment I am leaning towards drupal as it appears to have several of the things I need (G2 integration, genealogy module integration, English/Japanese bilingual capability) reasonably well developed.
I have also been looking at Xaraya, and noticed that "valiant" is the developer behind that integration. Any relation?
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Xaraya is very interesting. At the point when I was prototyping how Gallery 2 could integrate with other applications, xaraya was the best choice among a wide range of CMS since it offered some hooks and events that were missing in other applications completely.
I'd describe xaraya as an application framework, you can build a lot of different things on top of it. It has great flexibility and extendability.
As with other CMS that offer such flexbility, this comes at the cost of a steep learning curve.
And I'm not the best maintainer for the Gallery 2 integration for xaraya either since more or less, I just make sure that it works. Other integrations go further and make it look good (e.g. the wordpress/g2 integration created a whole new theme dedicated for the g2 integration in wp).
So if you have some time, xaraya as a CMS and the g2 integration with xaraya are a good choice.
But I'd say that joomla / drupal are currently the better choice if you want to do less customization yourself and use good looking building blocks that are offered by a large community.