FMP-based Content Management System

[TheToe]

Content Management Systems (CMSes) are the best thing to happen to web development. This site uses one. Most sites do. They let you automate most of the design-work of a site so you can concentrate on content. And they let you form communities, leverage RSS feeds, and all kinds of other cool stuff. Have a look at how many CMSes there are out there. For example, all of these are free, open-source ones:

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

or for a more complete listing, look at the side-bar here:

http://cmsinfo.org/

The vast majority of CMSes run off a SQL database. Wouldn't it be nice if at least one could leverage data in FileMaker databases? I'm sure it could be done somehow with ODBC, etc., but preferably we would have at least one CMS that directly works off FMP, right?

Well, I did find one listed here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phile-o-goo/

Unfortunately, since that was posted, there has been no evidence of anything happening. And they didn't even post the source-code, so there's nothing at all to look at... just a nice idea.

Does anyone else know anything about this project? Or about any other FMP-based CMSes? Or would anyone like to start one?

[omiossec]

You can deal that with lasso

See for example http://www.lassocms.com/

or for rdf http://www.lasso-developpeur.net/rss/

[TheToe]

omiossec said:

You can deal that with lasso

See for example http://www.lassocms.com/

Hey, that is news. Thanks!

However, a quick review of it shows that it is not free or open-source (unlike scores and scores of other CMSes), does not appear to have a published price (ie, how many thousands of dollars do they want?), and despite being customizable seems kinda not so... judging from the quality of that site itself. Also it seems kinda slow... I thought Lasso 6 was supposed to be over that....

I do appreciate the link, but wonder if there isn't a more open CMS for FileMaker...?

[omiossec]

I planned to build one using lasso. But my time frame is about one year / 1.5 years