PHP Content Management
CMS projects are meant for the owners of web sites to manage their content by facilitating them with an interface, which helps them in adding, editing or deleting content very easily. Take a look at some of these PHP CMS that you could use for your web site –
TangoCMS – it is a free, open source, simple but yet powerful and secure PHP CMS. It is built using strict standards of coding like W3C HTML. It helps you in creating as well as managing a site easily and quickly. Features like RSS feeds, blogs, powerful module for media come along with TangoCMS.
Advantages –
- Powerful and flexible, enabling ease of use for almost everyone
- Built keeping in mind about the security, right from the beginning
- Complies with the standards of W3C HTML
Requirements –
- PHP 5.2.0 or versions later than that
- MySOL 4.1 or version later than that
- Apache 2+ (Note that 1.3 is unsupported)
- Support for Lighttpd, IIS 6+ and nginx
- Other recommendations include installation of mod_rewrite
Joomla! – Another open source powerful PHP CMS allowing you to build web sites, which look professional and that too, with very much ease! It is a popular choice among the owners of small business and even users from home who wish to maintain a site that looks professional and is simple to manage. You could be surprised to know that it is also capable of delivering a robust web site even at an enterprise-level, which is empowered with unbelievable extensibility that can take care of your customize publishing requirements.
Advantages –
- What sets it apart from other CMSs is that it is devoid of any complication
- As with Mozilla Firefox browser, its core system could be extended with the help of add-ons that are authored by developer community.
- With the internaionalization of Joomla! 1.5x is capable of supporting languages that read from right towards left like Arabic or Hebrew and also extended set of characters. In addition, a dozen more pack of languages can also be downloaded separately.
Requirements –
- PHP 5.2 or versions later than that
- MySOL 4.1.0 or versions later than that
- Apache 2.0 or versions later than that (with mod_xml, mod_mysql, mod_zlib)
- Microsoft IIS 7
Drupal – It is another open source and PHP CMS platform that comes equipped with powerful features. It supports a wide range of websites that range from blog pages to a big community based website.
Advantages –
- One of Drupal’s unique feature, the Collaborative Book, helps you in setting up a book, after which you can authorize content contribution by other individuals
- It makes use of mod_rewrite by Apache for customizing URLs, which are both search engine and user-friendly.
- Drupal’s source code can be had freely governed by the GNU General Public Licencse 2 terms. Unlike with most other CMSs, the feature set of Drupal is available fully for extending and customizing it as needed.
More details can be had from – http://drupal.org/
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