A Free, Open Source ColdFusion Content Management System Farcry CMS 3.0 A Free, Open Source ColdFusion Content Management System Stephen Rittler CounterMarch Systems June 28th – July 1st 2006

about:steve Part of the CF community since 1999 Certified Advanced CF Developer Certified Flash MX 2004 Developer Manager of the Philadelphia CFUG Head over heels with Flex Also, Belgian beer June 28th – July 1st 2006

What is Farcry? An open-source content management system Formerly a commercial product sold by Daemon Farcry is offered under the Common Public License 1.0 June 28th – July 1st 2006

Why use Farcry? Don’t like something? Change it! Deployed, tested and still evolving Active developer base, many deployments worldwide Paid support options are available June 28th – July 1st 2006

System Requirements App server: Database: OS: CFMX 6.1+ on JRun 4+, WebLogic, WebSphere, Sun ONE Database: MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL Others if you want to make it happen OS: Windows, most *nix Flavors June 28th – July 1st 2006

Developer Requirements A reasonable comfort level with CFCs Comprehend some OO concepts Willingness to let the COAPI and FourQ do some work for you June 28th – July 1st 2006

What’s under the hood? Farcry consists of: This is not Spectra! Database interface (FourQ) The Content Object API (the COAPI) A “webskin” for rendering the content This is not Spectra! June 28th – July 1st 2006

Show me some content A page has containers These containers invoke rules Rules return data and display methods Display methods drive the webskin which renders the data (content) Repeat for all content areas on page June 28th – July 1st 2006

What’s so special about 3.0? Revamped admin interface Terminology is now less geeky Fully customizable Central “media manager” No more duplicate images/files! New default site layout “Mollio” June 28th – July 1st 2006

Demonstration Now showing: The Farcry Administrator A Live Farcry-powered website The Farcry Administrator Simple page creation Content editing June 28th – July 1st 2006

Security Flexible roles-based security model Integrates with LDAP and Active Directory or any database (ships with one that works fine) Can restrict access to admin functionality on a very granular level June 28th – July 1st 2006

Integration New content types Simple integration Managed inside the Farcry DB Simple integration “Included Objects” External application integration Looks like Farcry, but it isn’t! June 28th – July 1st 2006

Another Demo Custom content types Simple integration A “Podcast” object Simple integration “Contact us” form June 28th – July 1st 2006

What else can it do? Content syndication Built in reporting RSS/XML feeds built in Built in reporting A strong selling point, BTW… Verity search engine integration June 28th – July 1st 2006

Support Farcry-dev mailing list Farcry website Google! http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/support/mailing-lists Farcry website http://www.farcrycms.org/ Google! June 28th – July 1st 2006

In closing It’s free and powered by ColdFusion Extensible in every way imaginable Works *great* and implementation is fast The folks at Daemon and on the mailing list are very good at helping you! June 28th – July 1st 2006

Thank you! This presentation: Fusebox/Frameworks conference http://www.countermarch.com/cfunited Fusebox/Frameworks conference Coming in September! June 28th – July 1st 2006