Symphony.

Guys, i’m a newbie. Can’t find the answers for some general questions. First of all how do you relate to the currently well-known symfony framework (www.symfony-project.org)? Second question. do you usually offer symphony-cms as backend for customers? or do you produce both front and back ends for them? i’m asking this ‘cos as many of u know new ‘Revolution’ cms by MODx team was released. Their backend is more than nice looking.

First of all how do you relate to the currently well-known symfony framework

Not at all. They are two totally different pieces of software.

do you usually offer symphony-cms as backend for customers? or do you produce both front and back ends for them?

Depends. I’d say the automatically generated backend is suitable for the majority of projects, however if your site grows really large or utilises really convolutet Section layouts it might be better if you wrote your own backend.

First of all how do you relate to the currently well-known symfony framework

We are different, and superior in every way. (I might be a little bias.)

do you usually offer symphony-cms as backend for customers? or do you produce both front and back ends for them?

I’ve never found the Symphony admin areas to be lacking. Besides, I’m not sure how making a back-end that mimicked Symphony’s back-end would be superior except that it would be styled how I want.

Hi timteka, welcome!

do you usually offer symphony-cms as backend for customers? or do you produce both front and back ends for them?

I have never created a complete admin in the frontend (though I used to wish that Symphony was more oriented to do that). These days, there are several very useful extensions to help you customize the backend experience & organization. Nick Dunn has written several of these, including the HTML Panel field. , and some other newer ones that look pretty cool.

Section schemas and form controls, while technical, are built for this purpose (all Nick’s!)

I’m planning to do a wizard type admin for ease of adding content, having so many linked sections in the back means too much chopping and changing in the standard Symphony admin, although it is do-able…