Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 / TODO From: Kristian Köhntopp (kk <email protected>)
Date: 10/13/00

eschmid+sic <email protected> wrote:
> My company sells a content management system. It could be
> called application server. It's based on Unix/Apache/MySQL/PHP.
> The customer have to install ASP himself or we will install
> it ourself.

An appserver and a CMS are two different things. A CMS is a
system for creating, managing and indexing content, helping you
to

- create content using web based or native authoring tools,
- manage content by providing a versioning mechanism, and
  a staging platform where new content can be tested, reviewed
  and released into production
- index content by providing a search engine or other search
  facilities as well as an automatically generated content
  navigation.

Basically, a CMS uses dynamic content generation techniques
to manage static content and apply a dynamic layout on top
of this static content. Also, the CMS provides a lot of
"offline" infrastructure in the content creation area.

An application server provides the means to enable the stateless
HTTP protocol to transparently run stateful applications. One
such application could be a CMS or the deployment component
of a CMS, but the appserver is not limited to this.

Also, there are newer CMS which contain a number of predefined
applications such as calendaring systems, text retrieval systems
or web mail systems as insertable components into a layout. More
generally, such CMS sometimes provide methods to hook arbitrary
appserver based applications into a layout to enable integration
of completely dynamic content.

Kristian 

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