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Choosing a CMS?

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by jjk3

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I'm looking for an open source PHP/MySQL CMS that I can use as the backend to my website.

My site consists of multiple quasi-independent sections, each with its own subdomain, that should be able to function as seperate sites. The range in style from blogs to articles to file libraries, but all share a consistent global menu system, footer text, 3-column layout, et c.

I've looked at PHPNuke, just because that's the only thing that jumps to mind, but I want to make sure I'm not missing anything before I dive in with it.

What are your suggestions? Is there anything better than PHPNuke for this type of thing out there?

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by fluciani

I'm an happy user of PostNuke by 2 years. I've also developed an e-commerce module that runs well.
PostNuke is dead - but J.Cox (the author of PostNuke) have founded Xaraya.
In this moment I'm porting all to Xaraya (www.xaraya.com), because is 100 light years far from EVERY other CMS in the Open Source market, has a strong set of developers, and a very active community.

by rory.plaire

http://ez.no

It is a pure PHP/MySql system (also works with PostgreSql) and is strongly object oriented. The encapsulation of document objects into classes allows a flexible and extensible framework which can be customized without programming. SOAP interfaces allow content aggregation and workflow integration.

by jbeames

I also encourage checking out Xaraya. It features an excellent templating system, a powerful user permissions system, a modular design, and a system for hooking modules together (allows modules to offer functionality to each other, as in the comments module can be hooked to any other module or item type of a module to offer the user the ability to comment on something provided by the original module). It also features some really great ideas born out of years of working with PHPNuke and PostNuke, including a very extensible content item type system (the articles module).

I also recommend checking out Typo3 (http://www.typo3.com and http://www.typo3.org) - a very mature and polished web content management system. It's focus is a little less geared toward community sites (or should I say geared toward a whole lot more), but it is very robust and has one of the best administration systems I've worked with.

- Jonn

by bob

Another CMS worth a look is phpWebSite, another descendant of PHPNuke/PostNuke.

A lot of products are out there, and "CMS" means very different things to different people. Good luck in your search!

by jbell2

I have spent some time over the last 18 months evaluating many systems for my clients.

The list and a bit of a brief is on my website as a news post. Regret the slack site but I've been too busy setting up sites for clients.

www.frenzi.co.nz

In summary, I chose XOOPS as it seemed the most advanced and integrated smarty themes without the complexity of Typo3.

See my latest two sites at:

www.petelambfishing.co.nz
www.thetrossachs.co.nz

XOOPS does allow multisite operations - one database feeding (the same) content to many sites.

Joseph.

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