Looking for a Content Management System

[kodaks]

Greetings,
I know this topic has been discussed many times before, but I have yet to find a resource that matches my specifications.

I use a forum software that does not work with any kind of content management or portal system, and I am fine with that.

I am looking for a content management system similar to Postnuke or Mambo that does not have any user support. This means that no one will be able to register or login in my content management system except for the admin. All it simple will be is a article database.

The requirements I need are:
-Simple Administration
-Seperate sections or categories for different types of articles
-Works with PHP and Mysql
-No user feature except for the admin.
-Different Themes or Templates

If anyone could help me out, it will be greatly appreciated!

Also, does anyone know if PostNuke has the ability to turn off all user features? I have tried before, but some features still say you need to login.

[zulufox]

Check out ArticleLive by Interspire. Its not free ($239) but it is the perfect CMS for a content site (as opposed to a community site or blog).

[mikelly]

If you don't want any of those features why not use a Blog there are 4 different ones in fantastico and two of the opensource ones will do that as well as spin off child blogs and create standard pages.

Is that doesn't work also look into Python even 4 or 5 years ago it put PHP-Nuke to shame in areas besides mods.

[kodaks]

Thank you both for the replies!

If you don't want any of those features why not use a Blog there are 4 different ones in fantastico and two of the opensource ones will do that as well as spin off child blogs and create standard pages.

I have looked into that, and mostly blog programs don't have all the archiving features and category features that I am looking for.

Check out ArticleLive by Interspire. Its not free ($239) but it is the perfect CMS for a content site (as opposed to a community site or blog).

Thanks, I will check them out!

[Hanu]

Have you checked out Drupal? It meets all your criteria and has a very active community. Check out their list of sites that use it. Impressive.

[kodaks]

Yes I have checked out Drupal, and their user system is too deep to delete. Almost everything on Drupal requires a login. Thanks anyway!

[Hanu]

>Almost everything on Drupal requires a login.

I beg to differ. You don't need to "delete" the user system. Drupal has a special role called "anonymous_user" for people that are not logged in. You can give this role all sorts of permissions and you can completely hide the login block. I'd say you should take a second look. ;-)

[kodaks]

You can give this role all sorts of permissions and you can completely hide the login block.

So if a module requires a login and I "disable" the user function, will it ask someone to register or login? I do not want this.

[zulufox]

Drupal's Taxonomy system doesn't work well for my content sites.

Without an extremely bloated taxonomy system there is no way for a user to browse only articles and not news, forum posts, and blogs.

[Hanu]

So if a module requires a login and I "disable" the user function, will it ask someone to register or login? I do not want this.

You shouldn't disable the user function. I'm sure you wouldn't want to enable every visitor to administer the site, change the taxonomies, delete pages and so on. So you need a login for at least the admin. You can of course disable the user auto registration, disable the login block and assign the appropriate permissions to the anonymous_user role. With Drupal you can have everything, from single user site with login to anarchist multi-user sites where everyone can do everything without logging in. In reality you'd want something in the middle.

Drupal is not a Mickey Mouse CMS like so many others. Invest some time in learning it and you will be rewarded. I'll say it again: look at their list of sites that use Drupal and you'll get a notion of what it can and what it can't.

-- Hannes

[Hanu]

Without an extremely bloated taxonomy system there is no way for a user to browse only articles and not news, forum posts, and blogs.

I guess that depends on what one's definition of "extremely bloated" is. I for my part think that Drupal has one of the most flexible system of organizing content.

I also used or still use Typo3, Plone+Zope and Movable Type. The latter sucks BIG time but the other two are OK. I still think that Drupal would be best for Kodak's requirements. It installs fairly easy and has the easiest to use no-bull#*$! template system.

Ok, I'm talking to much ... time to stop. I hope I could help. I'm going on vacation tomorrow - 4 weeks of sailing in Croatia and Greece. YEAH!

[kodaks]

Thank you for the help, I will look into it deeper. Enjoy your trip :)!

[davec]

My recommendations would be typo3 (if you've got some time to learn it) or maybe phpWCMS which functions almost like an extrememly cut down version of typo3 (and has no user registration).

d

[kodaks]

Thanks, I will look into that as well. Wow their are a lot of choices I never thought of before :)!

[kodaks]

I hate double posting but I think I have decided to go with the Article Live program from Interspire. It seems the easiest to use and customize. Thank you all for your help!

[CapnJ]

>> So if a module requires a login and I "disable" the user function, will it ask someone to register or login? I do not want this.

The answer is NO. You don't disable the user function, you just allow anonymous users to access the articles and then hide the login block.

>> Drupal's Taxonomy system doesn't work well for my content sites.
Without an extremely bloated taxonomy system there is no way for a user to browse only articles and not news, forum posts, and blogs.

I disagree. You don't even have to enable the news, forums, blogs, etc. I would think enabling just blogs and 'pages' (which to drupal are intended usually to be used for static pages). Drupal is highly modular and the unneeded modules can be turned off.

And it would be VERY easy to give it a try. The install of the core modules can be done literally in minutes. Go to www.drupal.org.

gil