ducati996guy
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| Posted: 01/16/2010, 8:22 PM |
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Hi All,
just after some advice here.
We have been using the CodeCharge development environment since version 2. This quickly allows us to build record and grid forms as required. We have not much experience in .net but feel we need to be moving to it.
We also need to continue to use our classic ASP based CMS as well as developing custom applications as requested by clients.
1. We have our cms which handles all things web page related. Is asp but for this exercise assume it could be .net as we can migrate if needed. The whole layout of the page is. One large html table with banner footer, left area etc but the content for the page is then coming from the database with pageid as primary key. All code is non codecharge classic ASP and the template is a wrapper. There are around 50 functions/modules that do everything from add google maps to displaying a message of the day. These are all ASP functions.
2. We have custom database development to handle different client requirements. We then access those pages by replacing the content area of the cms with an iframe containing the application. This means the template functions for things like banners, highlights, nav etc all work as expected. The app can be developed as stand alone and everything looks to visitor as a nice neat page with the custom app as an iframe.
Some downsides like the URL doesn't change but overall the approach works pretty well. Issue here is cms and custom development are both really needing to have the whole template around them. Both are expecting to be the "whole" HTML page and we are just using iframes to merge the two applications together. For us cms is really the whole page and developed app is just a plugin to that page, hence the iframe approach.
If everything was .net how would u tackle this problem? I am just gathering ideas so we can move forward with the cms in a way that allows us to have anything we develop to be part of a website running in the CMS. Perhaps there is a technique we could be using that makes this whole issue redundant & I am just wasting brain cycles?
Thanks in advance.
David
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datadoit
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| Posted: 01/17/2010, 7:46 AM |
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May be worth the effort to take a look under the hood of the common open
source CMS's such as WordPress or Joomla! to see how they're managing
things. I know that if you're going to progress towards Web 2.0
standards, the table structure and iframes aren't going to fare well for
you.
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