Help with selecting a PHP Content Management System

PHP Content Mangement System.

[Alina]

Could someone recommend a good PHP Content Management System (CMS) - preferably open-sourced?
which may or may not use MYSQL? I have seen a few being advertised on google - but would rather go on a recommendation.

I would like to use (or be able to modify) if possible, the PHP CMS system so that a customer is able to do
the following:

- Create and Edit a main HTML page which links to a number of product pages.
- Create and Edit product pages.
- Upload/delete pictures and PDFs.
- Assign pictures to the main HTML and product pages.
- Create links within the main HTML and product pages.
- Edit a stylesheet.
- Create a dynamic navigation bar that a visitor is able to use the site.
- Call backup (a rollback tool which stores old content for a specified time say approx a month).

Additionally I would like to integrate the CMS tool with existing software to provide other functionality.

It is also very important that the customers that we support, are able to take their website (HTML pages) to another developer - with the minimum of fuss.

Many thanks for any help received,

Alina

[moltar]

I know WebEdPro is pretty good, but it's not Open Source, and it's avaiable in several languages (programming).

[jatar_k]

Alina,

Have you taken a look around at all of the online script resources? You can often find quite a few little gems floating around that, even if they don't exactly fit the bill, can be easily modified to do what you need.

Have you taken a look at PostNuke?

[Alina]

no I haven't looked at PostNuke - but I did see it mentioned on Google - I will take a look at that. Do you know of any other helpful sites?

Many thanks

Alina

[jatar_k]

hotscripts.com
sourceforge.net

[chiyo]

alina,

Go to www.hotscripts.com and look under the php/content management/ section. More scripts than you could poke a stick at with good summaries and reasonable voting and comments system.

[Alina]

Yes - I will need to look at these sites and see what I can use.

Thank you all for your input - its most kind.

Alina

[ogletree]

why does it have to be PHP? There are many programs that use other languages.

[vincevincevince]

you want to use PHP to generate .html pages, to be saved as static pages, and then moved to another host/developer?

to be honest i don't know of anything that fits that bill - but PHP is such that if you can break it down into little bits - there are thousands of code examples on the web.

it is possible to generate .html files with php for `export` by using the output buffer - start the buffer, include() the php page you want the output to be stored as .html for, then read the buffer into a variable, clear the buffer, finally write that variable into a file.html.

[rcjordan]

>opensource

I've been reading up on this one, looks interesting
www.interakt.ro/products/KompleteLite/

[Alina]

Ogletree: Yes its preferable for me to use PHP - this is because we ourselves are a customer on a server (pair) site. Although pair operate on a UNIX platform - and C and C++ (which i am experiencd in) are definitely supportable, amongst other languages - we ourselves are a web design company - and it is just easier for us to stick within our remit.

vincevince: Yes it on the lines of what i was trying to do - or thinking of doing.

rcjordan; KcompleteLite looks neat - although i haven't looked at the source as yet (will look at this later) - it seems to fit my requirements almost exactly. But i would need to look at the size of the code and the platform (Krysalis).

Has anyone heared how good easy to use the CMS system (i think its called Geeklog) that pair are offering their customers for free is? an independent assessment from a forum totally unconnected maybe a good thing i think ... -)

[Alina]

oops - meant to ask rcjordan a quick question - when u were reading KomleteLite - was intergration with external software possible - fairly easy? just asking - the more info that i have, the better i am able to choose. - Many thanks for your help Alina

[griz_fan]

Have you looked into eZ Publish? Unlike most of the portal-type CMS systems I've tried, eZ Publish is more of an application framework. It requires more work up front, but is a lot more flexible than the various Nuke systems. It is very well documented, so you can review the documentation to see if it will be a good fit for you or not...

[incywincy]

The eZ Publish website looks interesting. I am also looking for a CMS and I think I'll try their product out.

[sun818]

Hi, take a look at cmsInfo.org - it has a great list of open source CMS software. I'm currently looking at Adaptive Website Framework (AWF). It requires PHP and mySQL. This is what I like about it so far:

Support for Apache mod_rewrite. This will convert the urls from /index.php?id=12 to 12.htm.

the HTML <title> is also unique for each page.

The documentation is a little sketchy at points... but it looks very promising. I liked Plone before, but their server requirements are hard to match for most users (I think).

[mipapage]

Here's not too bad a site where you can try a bunch out:

h*tp://www.opensourcecms.com/

I'm in the hunt for one as well.