Help choose CMS

[petachok]

Hi,
I've been looking for a while to try to find a decent CMS but so far I've had no luck.

What I'm looking for is something that is easily integrated into my website.

All the CMSs that I have come across are very bulky and are not very flexible with design and static content pages.

Basically what I'm looking for is something similar to CuteNews only with more options. So for example if I want to insert news in an area on a page, i just type it in the code to include the news, and it appears there, same thing with polls, galleries, and other modules.

So if anyone knows if such a thing exists, please point me to it.

Thanks.

[anshul]

Some I know: PHP Nuke, Mambo, Drupal, Nucleus. I think last-one is easiest. I'm also searching for this. Now I wanna write my own code. Big problem is to provide an editor with support like BBCode, url insert, image insert i.e., I don't want admin/webmaster to write much HTML. Previously, I used WYSIWYG htmlArea, but client disliked it for it's slow/bulky ( more to add, It's IE only ). That all is JavaScript; I liked the editors of b2evolution, WordPress, vBulletin, but I don't like to copy their JavaScript. Instead, I opt to learn/write my own JavaScript and JavaScript/PHP parser script.

[Stormfx]

Hehe, I'm doing the same thing.. sort of :)

[anshul]

Perhaps, both ours' problem r same. Let's identify: 1) need study php file-system functions to create template-driven CMS system 2) SEO-friendly? 3) Search: PCRE? 4) Nice editor for entering Web page ( HTML )content: JavaScript! I don't accept FCKeditor This is my biggest head-ache 5) Controls ( flags? ) to customize layout data.

[petachok]

Maybe it would be easiest to integrate all the extra features into CuteNews if it's impossible to find something similar with more options.

CuteNews alone works on BBCode and it could be used as a CMS using news categories. So set a news category to "Front Page" and in the php code include cutenews with a category of Front Page, redesign the front page template inside cutenews, and voila, the content is easily editable for any page.

The problem is that it doesn't have things such as adding navigation bar links, inserting polls, calendars. Perhaps there are ready-made scripts that could added to cutenews and integrated right into the cutenews admin panel so users would be able to modify things from one location...