Cahaya CMS 1.0 released!

I’m getting more curious about it. Off to the project page now…

There have been at least a dozen CMS systems built off Zend Framework. Unfortunately most of them have poor documentation, weak community support, and relatively the same design. I’d love to see a Zend CMS take off, but unless a seriously committed team of experienced Zend developers get together, a usable cms isn’t going to happen :/.

Cal Evan’s posted a list of zend powered CMS systems back in 2007. http://devzone.zend.com/article/2060

Hopefully the CAHAYA developers will learn from the mistakes of past zend projects .

but I absolutely agree with jhimmelman.

Before even calling a CMS and announcing a CMS 1.0 releasing, the developers of Cahaya should see some CMS’s basic functionality. Some bunch of CRUD modules doesn’t make a CMS, I’m sorry. I’m very disappointed to see the demo. It seemed just a high school semester project.

I looked under the hood yesterday. It is rather disappointing.

Doesn’t seem to be a active project. Still using ZF v1.8.0

Well, another useless CMS…

pappu687,

before saying that Cahaya CMS is just a bunch of CRUD models you should at least take 5 minutes and read about it and its features. Or you should look at http://www.cahaya-project.org/about/toolbar. Maybe then you will see what CMS functionality Cahaya has.

And yes it is amateur work this is why it is open source. I didn’t get paid to make it and you don’t have to pay to use it. If you don’t like it I am OK with that. I hope some people will find it interesting. In fact I would be very happy if you say some constructive criticism on the forum.

And to other commentators. I don’t know what you expected Cahaya CMS to be. It is certainly not a Joomla or Drupal killer. It is just a first version of a new CMS which I hope will see some open source light. The only other Zend fremework CMS I know is Digitalus CMS and I think it is great. I expected you would be at least a little bit more open minded since this is a developer portal.

Regards

Matej

I looked the demo . Was not impressed and then only read the comments .

The thing is that no one will notice the tool bar and how it works . After watching the video also it was not easy for me to figure it .

There needs some messages when its saved . We cannot understand what happened when clicking on save . It lags some UI .

I hope it will improve the UI and with much people can do easily than like this .

May need to look the popular CMS like WordPress , Drupal, Joomla and build one which is better than that . Else we may not need another CMS with less UI .

This is what I think . Guys you too try it out and let other know your experience with it .

Am I the only one who sees this? Yes, there’s a lot of attempts at creating a CMS with the Zend Framework. Each attempt has its own merit. If you don’t like the way it works or you find it lacking, make suggestions but don’t trounce the developer for trying. At least he/she is trying and contributing to the community. If this nitpicking keeps up developers will stop contributing. Stop stomping on his work, start making suggestions or better yet if you have the time jump in and help make it "useful". Unbelievable.

I am appreciated your efforts. I checked the demo, I am rather confused how it works. I think it should be more friendly such having easier & better UI, alert messages,…

sorry dude, hate to hurt your feelings, but there are so many CMS’s out there that I personally wont even bother trying to write another one – not when there is something to the likes of Joomla with an enormous user-base and thousands of free working modules. Plus Joomla can be bridged with the Zend Framework (MVC)

Its just not worth it – why don’t you rather spend your affords on a new invention, MVC is not best suited for a CMS anyway.

I do agree that the deconstructive criticism shown here does not help anyone – whether your CMS makes it up the ladder or not – its still knowledge gained for you.

Good luck for your future prospects!

…if I can give you a tip. Investigate further development on Magento commerce.

regards
Christof Coetzee

Hi

I think Cahaya work looks interesting and dispite the harsh words I belive there is room for new cms-challengers with new ideas. I guess the most important things (apart from an active community) are
– ease of use
– flexible (easy to break out of templates)
– easy to extend with new components/modules
– scalability, prepare for high performance scenarios

….. Ask

I’ve play with the CMS+Admin. I really don’t think, that Zend devZone is a good place to show that "beginner" kind of projects. It’s a different think to show less experienced developers an articles about basic PHP5/ZF things (ACL, interfaces, MCV), than showing that kind of (sorry) crap. You – devZone editors – shoult pay more attention to quality of the content. I (many years devZone reader) am disappointed.

There are plenty of good projects being built with ZF that are of note, I’m a little disappointed to see stuff like this aggregated up to the top of the Zend Framework home page. I would suggest some sort of QC since this is hurting Zend’s credibility.

Best,
Jon Lebensold

C’mon people! Don’t release software with out docs!