Content Management & Coppermine

[Rob M]

Morning

I'm using Coppermine on my web site at the moment, I'm keeping an online gallery of things that we're doing to the house and just about anything else that's going on.

This is only made available to family/friends, and I've set it up so that you can only view the gallery if you're a registered user (I don't want all and sundry viewing my pictures).

I'd like to expand the site to include a blog, my calendar, a selection of links, and anything else that takes my fancy really - the problem is that Coppermine doesn't have this sort of functionality.

I'd like to set the site up with the minimum of hassle, and I really don't do web development, so I've been looking at some of the Content Management Systems that are out there.

The problem is that none of them really seem to do what I want to do, it's possible that I'm missing a trick though and so I'm happy to be put straight.

Basically, I want people to be visited with a very basic page when they first visit the site - if possible, nothing more than a login. When they login they then have access (depending on what group they're in) to various other elements. Ideally it would be great if they could have a single sign-in that gets them access to everything. Nobody needs to be able to add/edit any content other than me.

It would be great if it could integrate into Coppermine, giving access to the current gallery without the need to sign in separately.

I think what I've described above pretty much describes all the CMS out there, apart from the fact that none of them seem to integrate into Coppermine (or rather, Coppermine doesn't seem to integrate into any of them).

I think I'm going to end up answering lots more questions before we get to the bottom of this, but hopefully the above should give us a starter for 10.

Anybody got any thoughts/suggestions?

If possible it would be really useful if people could link me to sites that they've created/used that have been created using the CMS that they're recommending, that way I can see if the functionality is what I'm looking for.

Thanks

[Kymmy]

Most intergration with coppermine is done the other way (i.e. you install the CMS then link coppermin into the CMS's databse)

The only way I could possible see of doing it is to copy the user tables from coppermine to the CMS and then intergrate the two, not sure if you could copy across the MD5 hashes for the passwords but it's worth a test.

Kymmy

[Rob M]

Now you see.....I understood about 50% of that

Thanks though

I think I can see where you're going, my worry would be that I would be creating something that looked like Frankenstein's Monster

I don't mind starting from scratch, even if that means I have to upload everything again , but I'd like everything to be as simple to use as Coppermine (and in fact vBulletin and PBPBB) is.

If the other CMS have galleries that are as simple (to administrate and to use) and look as nice as Coppermine does then I don't think I'd have an issue in switching, I just haven't seen any so I can't really judge (none of them seem to have a gallery installed as standard).

Obviously keeping the existing Coppermine would be nice, but it isn't essential if I can find a better solution

[Kymmy]

I use phpbb3 with coppermine and it works quite well, If you don't want to start delving into the DB then probably best to start again..check which CMS's/Forums that coppermine intergrates with..

You also have the option of gallery2 which would have been my first choice but it's a pain to install on an IIS6 system

Kymmy

[Rob M]

Thanks, I'll take a look gallery2 then

Don't really need phpbb3, I don't think I need all the bulletin board functionality - I just know how easy I found using phpbb when I ran my own forum for a while

[Tightscot]

website baker should do what you want Linkage or try cmsms Linkage

I've played with both, cmsms has a v nice lightbox gallery addon, but is a bit more fiddly to setup 'user' only areas