Looking for About.com Clone Script

About .com script

[Eccus]

Hello:
Does anyone know of a script that clones About.com? Something that can support multiple channels and editors just like About.com?

[mincklerstraat]

It's a while since I've worked with cms's that I haven't written myself (I think a lot of programmers will tell you this, we're apparently not working together efficiently enough to prevent ourselves from always having to re-invent the wheel. Sorry, cms consumer). However, the 'slash-alikes' might fit your bill. You know slashdot? Well, they released their code (program that runs their site) a veeerrry long time ago in the language called perl at slashcode.com, and later all kinds of people copied its general scheme in other languages (primarily in php). This will give you a slashdot.org - like site which, if you hack a bit, can lay your site out into a lot of different categories and topics, and also give you pages of articles just by a certain article in question. And tons of modules for link directories, downloads, etc. etc.

These slash-a-likes became rather infamous on the net - they became incredibly popular (php-nuke being the most notorious), and some of them had a whole lot of security holes and followed rather poor programming practices. Fortunately, in most of them, security has gotten better.

Slash-a-likes I'd look into are: postnuke, xoops, and mambo siteserver, and it lately seems like Xaraya is becoming less obscure - all of these will probably run on shared hosting with php and mysql (what you'll probably be getting). If you're not a newbie, and have got a dedicated server, you can try drupal, it's got a neat sort of blogging thing built in so people can have their own blogs.

None of these will really look like about.com out-of-the-box, but they will all give you a site out-of-the box with a whole lot of advanced organizational possibilities. And with just a tiny bit of php hacking you'll be able to get them into the exact format you want.

[zulufox]

Take a look at Articlelive.com

I'm waiting for a PHP version to come out. It is pretty much just a clone of sitepoint.com's cms, which is quite a compliment