Posted on September 20, 2007 - by Jordan H

CMSing is bloody hard…

I’ve been working on a custom CMS for a new game development studio. I decided to use PHP’s Smarty Template Engine as it’d make the template system really easy to use. Nope, not at all. Spent 5 hours fixing problems that seemed to all come from the default config settings and leak into the functions and classes. It’s supposed to be an easy setup, not a guru’s job.

The CMS is modular, it uses modules so we can extend it really easily. We’re also trying to integrate a vBulletin forum and their Single User Login system for their games. What did I say, CMSs are easy? Hell no.