Best CMS (Content Management System) for a review site.

[willd]

Lo all

I was wondering what you would consider the best CMS for a review site (for guitars and accessories). I will need to have around 8 sections each with reviews in them, with space for a small image.

Also it would definately help if it was Open Source - and easy to change its looks using PHP.

No ASP/MSqly sites only php/mySQL

thanks for your time

Will :0

[hakre]

why not to start whith geeklog or phpnuke. i think they come with categories and give the user the possibility to discuss and rate articles. doesn't this sound like a good start?

[NeedScripts]

very interesting :)

I have been looking for something same and found that the best match is SiteWorks Pro at www.siteworkspro.com

Now my only concern with them is, it is not static, but if I am not wrong, with little mod rewrite or .htaccess play you should be able to make it static.

There are few other options like (ezpublish, siteseed, xoops, TYPO3, phpnuke, postnuke.....)

Hope this helps.

P.S.. if you are able to make siteworks pro static, please let me know, cuz, I don't know how to do mod rewrite or play with .htaccess

[hakre]

hi NeedScripts,

don't want to squat this thread, but i think you can't make something dynamic static only with modrewrite. you can let look it like it is only .html but it would still be a dynamic website.

and as i understood willd he needs something with rating(s).

[NeedScripts]

Hi hakre,

my mistake, I meant to say using mod rewrite you would be able to make it look static ... I guess we (I) do take many things for granted .. bad habit :(

p.s... if I am not wrong, siteworks pro also allows you to have a poll (rating option) for each article/review.. that how did the end user liked it and along with this they also have a feature where you can plugin phpbb and some other board so if end user wants they can even start a thread at discussion board there.

[gethan]

Just to clarify the mod_rewrite points:

mod_rewrite won't make a dynamic site appear static, what mod_rewrite will do is allow urls of the form /article-1.html to return the content specified by a script /article.php?id=1 (plus other many other things that aren't relevant ot the discussion).

Back to CMS's

To make a CMS appear static you need to either:

- find one that has been written to work with mod_rewrite
- rewrite an open source one - make it produce every link as a static one that you have mod_rewrite rules set up for. (remember the GPL licence means that you have to keep it open source and send back the new code - also that any credits displayed have to still be kept there)
- find a cms that creates holding files and analyses the request URI to simulate mod_rewrite.
- or write one from scratch that does either... or something even smarter.