Zarilia CMS + Impress CMS = ???

Hey everyone,

I'm new developer of Impress CMS. Previously I was developer of another Xoops fork – Zarilia CMS (dead). In Zarilia CMS there is many nice things that could be added to Impress CMS...

So, what do You are thinking about that? Which features do You want to see in next Impress CMS release? :)

P.S.: Sorry for such big list... and some parts can be dublicated... but I haven't time to read all Impress forums yet... so some features can be in CMS or in todo list yet...

Anonymous login

If user wants to login to site, but he doesn't want to show his online status, user can select 'Anonymous login' checkbox in login form.

Remeber me

I think everyone saw somethere such checkbox in login form... :)

Different ways to encode users passwords in database

Passwords in database can be storied not only in encoded with md5.
Now there is support for Plain, XorBase64, AES4Mysql, Blowfish_CBC encodings. This can be extended.

However only one encoding can be used per installation.

It's usefull for linking CMS with other internet software (for example Direct Connect server) or when we needing to decrypting passwords and keeping them secured.

I need such function in Impress CMS too, because I have site where I want use Impress CMS and which is using this function.

Jobs (in current Zarilia version is called „Shedule Events“)

Many big sites are using crontab or similar techniques for some jobs automatization (for example every first month morning sending special emails to site users).

Zarilia have admin area for that:


Now there is support for running such jobs with AT (for windows) and CronTab (for *nix) system commands. This can be extended.

CAPTCHA

I think everyone know, what it is :)

Allmost any database support with AdoDB Lite library

Yeah... Zarilia has droped XOOPS database classes some time ago to be more universal... But with that comes incompatibility problems with XOOPS... :( I'm unsure if Impress CMS could use something similar... :/

Edit multilanguage content at once (mledit)

When site has more than one language, admin can edit multilanguage pages at once by using tabbed form interface (every tab = every site language).



However this idea was not completed: current implementation uses too many bandwitch; so it must be remaked.

Age Verification
Some content can be accessied only for specified age groups. How this really works I'm unsure because with this Catzwolf worked.

Language translation

You can translate CMS directly from admin panel.



Menu editing

It's easy to modify site's menu. Something similar to Joomla.

Security Administration

Wanna see who want to hack your site? Here you can do so! :)



Error administration

Here You can see what errors was someone found on your site (user or system). How this works I don't know – also Catzwolf idea and work.



Media administration

Here you can upload any multimedia needed for your site (video, music, pdf...). You can also sort media by mimetypes and categories.



Stream administration

Here you can add, delete, create streaming video/audio content.




Content administration



Trash administration

Similar to Windows Recycle Bin... but not working in Zarilia yet...



RSS administration

With this feature is posible simple to display RSS feeds contents from others sites directly in yours. Also Catzwolf work...



Mail Users

It's possible to send mails for site users.

Profile administration

Same thing as in Xoops 2.2.x

Add-ons administration

Allmost same thing as modules in XOOPS.



Multilanguage

Yep, it's possible to have multilanguage sites... however administration of this is not fully done...

Multisite

Yep, it's possible to have multisite sites... however administration of this is not fully done...

Modified template engine

With it is possible to add needed CSS, Script, Meta anytime when you need ( for example: it's possible to add some Meta tag's only for news module). I saw Impress CMS has something similar but I haven't anything done with it.

Zarilia Controls

At first I wanna to say: I want that this part will be included in Impress CMS. Because it's part what is most interesting to me.

So what is Zarilia Controls? It's very similar things to web Widgets or ActiveX controls: any Zarilia Control is only for one purpose (for example: progress bar, tabs). Zarilia Controls is also framework which extends Xajax (xajax will be only one time loaded per page if it needed – allmost all with it is optimized).

Here is some demos of current Zarilia Controls -> http://84.240.29.175/zarilia/Zarilia%20Controls%20Demo.wmv

Goal of Zarilia Controls is make more easy way to create new modules (less programming).

Settings in files

Some settings are storied not in database but instead in special folder in php files. Why? Because reading from text files settings is faster then doing it with database.

Add-Ons for Zarilia

Zarilia has some special add-ons:
[x] Personal Messaging System
[x] Advertisement Manager
[x] Vanilla bridge (not completed)
[x] cpTools (clone module, convert from xoops to zarilia, hash module; not completed)

Media player selection

Each user can select own multimedia player for contents of site playback.

Menu items modification with installed add-ons

It's possible todo so. However there is no demo for it.

Some very cool suggestions there!

Some excellent work indeed there... you have done a great job indeed!

Wow MekDrop You really did a lot of impressive work with Zarilla.

The Zarilia Controls are very interesting it sounds like some stuff that
would be in the silverstripe cms to me. The SS cms admin has some very nice code/controls.

I wish I could watch your demo to understand a little better. Very slow internet connection. err

The Xoops 2.2 profiles would be one heck of a start for me. I want something like yogurt as part of the core...

Anyway what a great list of features MekDrop! Thanks for your time and a great couple of posts.

Indeed, I gotta say. Pretty much all of that sounds awesome!

1.1 is Gonna be one heck of a release!

Just a quick notes:

Remember me: included already
Users passwords: there is a branch by Vaughan
Content administration: branch by RpLima

I believed that Zarillia had a "module upload". Modules are submitted directly without ftp. Is it right or I have got a mistake?

Really it is an impressive list of features !!!!!!!!!!

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You are correct

There is a way to load "addons" directly

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Really it is an impressive list of features !!!!!!!!!!

This is ImpressZar

Moment Zen (Next Generation)

Oops, new prefix modules compatibles now xIcZ

I am very interested in all the features of zarilia... to be included in icms... now... a question.. from where we can start?

About the Zarilia options... i think that they could be added as a extended xoopsform objects... do you have edited objects of the xoops forms?

Another question... in wich xoops version is based??

Where i can download the very last code? can you upload it to our svn as marcan and rodrigo do... with their personal versions?

i propose that the prefix for the modules to xf (Xoops Family)

Do anyone have that famous graphics about the xoops family genealogic?... i will be nice to have one updated... show where we are... and were was zarilia... and now... show the join of the forks...

You can get a copy of Decembers version on sourceforge with tortoise.

svn: https://zarilia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/zarilia

First of al: Welcome MekDrop !

Tjeez that looks (list suggestions zarillia->implementing icms) and sounds very,very interesting!

Impressive (1.0)-> more impressive (1.1) ->most impressive (1.?) ....... Be impressed.......
I look forward to the further development of icms!

Grtz., Shine

Btw: do other encounter probs with adding smilie from the feature 'more ..' on this impresvie website?

Hello MekDrop, Im impressed, I couldn't imagine that there are such features in Zarilla.
Now there is a lot of work for you to merge it into iCMS, isn't it ? :]

You mean this image Nekro?

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I think Zarilia is based on Xoops 2.0.7.3 but later has merged some newer Xoops code.

About Xoops forks: there is interesting discussion here -> http://www.bcoos.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20&forum=7 (Zarilia than was known as CodePlus).

About Xoops forms and Zarilia: there is now two Forms subsystems. First is allmost the same as in Xoops (in Zarilia is new field types), and other is based on Zarilia Controls Framework, which is more powerfull (it's posible to change form layout or validate form on server side without refreshing page). But it is still incomplete and it looks now more like another experiment than really working and usefull thing... I think it's good idea that in feature all forms in CMS and modules could be replaced with this.

Yes, there is a lof of work to merge Zarilia to Impress CMS. That's why I'll be very happy if someone will help me - so many features from Zarilia can come to iCMS sooner :)

Of course we will help, that's why we are a community.

Zarilia + Impress CMS = Impressia

Let's just take 1 feature at a time to merge, ok, because it's a lot of stuff to figure out.

Yes Zarilia needs to be added to the "Impress SVN" like SmartX and XTXM was. This will make it faster to study and implement into Impress.

Can you do this MekDrop?