Comments on: Matrix GUI, asset builders (and mums)

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:42:56 +0000

I’m sure community development does happen for Matrix. I think in my case (and that of the team I work in) it just seemed too much of a learning curve compared with, say, Drupal. The latter has the advantage that’s it’s relatively widely documented and talked about in blogs etc, and there are plenty of companies around who offer some excellent dev services. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen for Matrix, but seemingly on a much smaller scale.
I also don’t know whether the structure of Matrix under the hood is better than Drupal. It can’t be much worse, as Drupal’s pretty hacky in a number of areas, and is still very “php4″. But I found the documentation for Matrix development a bit sparse, and there wasn’t really an API in the WordPress/Drupal etc sense.
Anyway it’s a bit academic as we’ve now committed to Drupal.

By: Nic Hubbard

Nic Hubbard — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:46:16 +0000

Community Development DOES happen. Creating custom assets is not all that difficult, you just have to have a good understanding of php, and read through other assets to understand how they are built. I have developed 3 assets which have been added to Matrix, which includes a Javascript API.

If you want to get your hands dirty with developing for Matrix, let me know. It can be a steep curve, but it is great once you get past that.

By: matthew

matthew — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:31:55 +0000

I’d totally agree with you that MySourceMatrix can be fairly easily set up to give you an impressive CMS, and something which in terms of functionality is quite the equal of Drupal or WordPress. In fact it’s better than either of them in terms of setting up a ‘multisite’ system.

But for me MySourceMatrix really fails because of its total lack of API. So if you did want to build new components (and let’s face it, you will want to) you can do so easily. It’s a shame, because it could be so much better that way. eg. Drupal core is pretty cruddy on its own. It’s the modules and community which make it what it is. My feeling is that Squiz could’ve done a lot more with it to open it up (Apple managed this with their highly locked-down iPhone, for example), but I guess that’s just not their business model.

By: Tuguldur

Tuguldur — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:54:06 +0000

Hi,

I agree with Mysource Matrix being difficult system to learn and it requires a lot of time to understand.

I’m no pro but you can build WordPress back end with MySource Matrix quiet easily.
You can create ie – new comment, news, calendar event or user and control when the asset can be published (go live) with countdown or approval without ever going into the actual System Admin screen.
Also you can then edit and delete assets.

By: 论坛群发

论坛群发 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:29:42 +0000

good thanks a lot