[TYPO3] typolight?

[Elmar HInz]

Am Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:21:01 +0000 schrieb TDJ:

> My boss complains that Typo3 is too hard for him, he wants 
> something simpler.
> 
> I have searched, but don't like the static-ness of 
> most CMS's. Then I found Typolight,
> http://www.typolight.org
> 
> It has similarities to Typo3 - the fields, the navigation, 
> concept of users and pagetrees, etc..
> 
> But is it related to Typo3 ? Or is it just inspired on the
> same ideas ?
> 
> My first tryout of the online demo made it look like
> a "masked" and heavily hacked Typo3 backend, but still
> like Typo3.
> 

Hi Torben,

curiously I investigated the code and the forums. It is clearly inspired
by TYPO3, but it is fresh code from ground up and comes also under GPL.

The whole source is slim 1.5 MB. It is PHP5 only. The code is much cleaner
than the code of Kasper but not perfect. Both FE and BE validate.

The idea to rebuild TYPO3 interface in PHP5 in a slim version is
consequent and it seems it is well done. I don't discover any TypoScript,
so it's not a real typo3 clone, but only for the edotor interface.

A user community and plugins are still missing. It will be usefull to edit
static pages in the typo3 way including pictures and file downloads. If
that is all you need it could be the choice your boss is searching for.

It looks like a well done startup of a new CMS. Without TS it is not
seriously to compare to TYPO3 but I think we will here from this project
again.

Regards

Elmar