Textpattern CMS

#1 2010-07-18 18:47:03

littlebigman

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Registered: 2010-07-18

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Can TP generate static pages?

Hello

I’m looking for an open-source solution that has the following features:

• Still supported
• PHP/MySQL
• Blog entries are saved as raw articles in MySQL, then combined with a template to generate static HTML pages to avoid the penalty of using PHP/MySQL every time the homepage or blog pages are read
• Ideally, should also have a forum or make it easy to integrate Pun/FluxBB so that users can create a single account to sign up for events and post in the forum

Does TextPattern support those?

Thank you.

#2 2010-07-18 18:59:57

JanDW

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From: Providence, RI, USA

Registered: 2008-07-18

Posts: 327

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Re: Can TP generate static pages?

1. yes
2. yes
3. you need to use a plugin for page caching such as asy_jpcache (I’ve never used it though) and there’s aks_cache which shouldn’t be used for full page caching
4. I believe there used to be a plugin for Vanilla and a plugin called txp_phorum , but they’re no longer actively developed I think. Look for them on this forum though.

Hope this helps,

Jan

Last edited by JanDW (2010-07-18 19:01:20)

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#3 2010-07-18 20:15:03

monkeyninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2008-10-14

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Re: Can TP generate static pages?

littlebigman wrote:

Ideally, should also have a forum or make it easy to integrate Pun/FluxBB so that users can create a single account to sign up for events and post in the forum

If you are after a CMS that has good support for user groups then Textpattern is possibly not ideal, unless of course you want the forum to function relatively separate from the rest of the site’s content.

Otherwise, Textpattern is ideal for handling articles and is relatively light on database calls when delivering content unlike other CMSs out there. Combine it with some caching from one of the plugins Jan mentions above and you should be sorted.

#4 2010-07-18 22:19:34

littlebigman

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Re: Can TP generate static pages?

Thanks guys for the feedback. I guess page caching does the job (I’d really like to avoid running PHP and reading data from MySQL if I can avoid it).

As for the forum, I need to share the member table between the forum and the blog entries that are actually events to which users can sign up. That way, people won’t have to log on twice in different sections of the site.

#5 2010-07-19 07:37:53

merz1

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Re: Can TP generate static pages?

A busy forum will request a lot of db activity. The little overhead produced by a CMS on the db should be little to nothing compared to the advantages of a dynamic site :)

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#6 2010-07-19 09:12:46

littlebigman

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Re: Can TP generate static pages?

I’ll set up TP and see if I can tweak it to work with a forum and allow users to sign up for events.

Thank you.