ezContents is an Open Source PHP/MySQL CMS which rates quite well on hotscripts/freshmeat/etc. As we approach the release of version 1.5.0 in beta, I think it’s reaching the stage where I’m proud to consider myself on the development team.
It can be found at http://www.visualshapers.com or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ezcontents
I hope this helps in combining a proper list. If one of the moderator could start a new thread or incorporate the whole list in the first thread - it cud be v useful.
ok I’m getting aggravated now. I purchased SiteWorksPro but I didn’t fully understand the installation and I already have a site running and didn’t want to do anything to interfere with it. I asked them to do the free installation but they haven’t yet. My site has a chatroom, forums, articles and mailing list. Any advice is appreciated.
I’ve done a test installation of eZ publish and was thinking of it as THE solution for my CMS needs, for all of it’s features (lots of them indeed). What I’ve read in this thread, though, made me rethink my plans - so it’s too slow for shared hosting - that’s back to searching through endless lists of candidates for me.
Ok, maybe we could make this search easier by refining it a little. Here’s what I’d love to find: a CMS that…
is free
is pure php (no need for builds or binaries)
has well structured, clean, modularized source code
supports plugins (and makes it easy to write new ones)
runs well on a shared server account
Allows for multiple freestyle templates on one site (let’s me show content the way I want)
Let’s me edit templates on Dreamweaver or other WYSIWYG editor (without tons of intermixed scripting code)
Has a nice search engine
Is multilingual
Is more than a forum or blogger (I want a SitePoint, not a Slashdot)
Scales my images to given standards (thumbnails)
Is multisite: many related sites, one installation
Has a control panel that even my little sister could operate (to ad content, at least)
Has a showcase website that is NOT in German (source code commented in english’d be nice too)
Do I want too much? I gess that’s what most webmasters are looking for. Could anyone comment on this feature list, maybe ad something cool that I forgot? Most of all, has anyone found my dream CMS and would care to share his/her finding with us all?
As for eZ publish, version 3 is on beta; they promisse a lighter system, should I believe it will be light enough? SitePoint has an article on eZ that says lotsa good things about it, can I still hope?
I paid $99 for SiteWorksPro but I can only use it on one website. I run several websites and my intention was to purchase one CMS tool that I can use to build all my sites. They tell me I have to purchase another license in order to use it for another website. I’m better off searching for the best free one I can find.
Try the DEMO - english version of 2.0 out in November - it leaves anything else I have seen for dead - it even integrates with editors such as dreamweaver.
I tried webedition but when I try to install, it says the file is damaged. Tried it twice. Can’t figure out how to install phpnuke. I think I’m better off just coding the sites manually. I’m very frustrated.
My church’s webhosting plan doesn’t include SQL–are there any CMS programs that don’t require it? Our needs are rather simple (probably 10 users to update portions of their page).
I’ve checked a bunch of the links (THANKS, gang–an excellent list!) but Snippetmaster seems to be the only free one I’ve found sofar.
Originally posted by frankc2
[B]My church’s webhosting plan doesn’t include SQL–are there any CMS programs that don’t require it? Our needs are rather simple (probably 10 users to update portions of their page).
I’ve checked a bunch of the links (THANKS, gang–an excellent list!) but Snippetmaster seems to be the only free one I’ve found sofar.
I think all these CMS can be a bit overwhealming for some people, especially since they all appear to be so similar it is very difficult to decide which one to use without spending some time with each one. It would be helpful to divide them up according to features: news portal/ forum/ collaboration/ template/ etc. and rate them independently for each of these features. Personally, I really hate hotscripts.com and I wish someone would replace it with something that allowed you to filter and sort like freshmeat.net. But I would also like to see ratings and user comments like Versiontracker.com.
What I’m talking about is a CMS for a small-scale site. A personal homepage, etc. Not a CMS for your corporatate intranet. You want a blog, links, some files, etc., but your concern is not with collaboration but simply ease-of-maintaining and updating the site. Also, design is going to be more important in such a site - you want to easily change the look and feel of the site so it doesn’t look like another Nuke site! Since CMS are mostly free, why are there so few with this design philosophy (they all seem targeted at coporations)? And, it would be nice if developers made it easier to integrate different tools together into your own site. Has anyone written some kind of meta-API that everyone could use to create a uniform log-in and homepage for all these scripts? It seems like each PHP site requires its own index.php page whose CSS and code screw up every other php tool when you try to place it as an include …
Enough ranting, I hope some of these thoughts are useful.
Originally posted by Farside
Here’s what I’d love to find: a CMS that…
is free
is pure php (no need for builds or binaries)
has well structured, clean, modularized source code
supports plugins (and makes it easy to write new ones)
runs well on a shared server account
Allows for multiple freestyle templates on one site (let’s me show content the way I want)
Let’s me edit templates on Dreamweaver or other WYSIWYG editor (without tons of intermixed scripting code)
Has a nice search engine
Is multilingual
Is more than a forum or blogger (I want a SitePoint, not a Slashdot)
Scales my images to given standards (thumbnails)
Is multisite: many related sites, one installation
Has a control panel that even my little sister could operate (to ad content, at least)
Has a showcase website that is NOT in German (source code commented in english’d be nice too)
Hi,
I’m completely mystified why no one has mentioned pMachine. It would answer to most of the above points; the main feature lacking in the free version is that you can’t have multiple blogs - for that you need the Pro version at $45.
