Hi, There are a few steps to do befor you go ahead and choose a CMS.
One of them, is determining your needs. Second is looking at the major projects and see how each of them answer your needs. The size of the community supporting the project. Code quality (does it re-use existing code from the community ie: did they recode their database abstraction layer or used PearDB) How many database it support (mysql is good, but maybe you want to offer the choice to your customer) Is done in 00 ? Does it have search engine friendly url by default (many cms generate really long url) Does it support many languages (in my case this is important to be able to manage a multi-langual website). And the most important one, Is it easy to modify and is their a good user and programmer reference and manual. Plus doing a set of bench mark might be interesting to do, to know how many visitors the system can handle If none answer exactly your need, (say 90%) why not code the 10% and give it to the community instead of recoding the hole thing. Coding such a system is complexe, and will require alot of energy, will the community could provid most of the work. Here are a couple website that could help you choose. http://www.opensourcecms.com/ http://www.cmsreview.com/ http://www.cmsinfo.org/ Another quit way to get around the most popular CMS would be to attend to our CMS debate (will be in french) at the PHP Quebec Conference. In 2 hours we will go around the most critical needs that a CMS should offer, and how the most popular project like :TikiWiki, Spip, Xoops, Typo3, Zope, answer them. Personally i use xoops for the PHP Quebec community website http://www.phpquebec.org i also saw breifly tikiwiki seems a great product. Good luck. Yann Larrivée On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 18:01, Adam Reiswig wrote: > I have just been to hotscripts.com looking under their php area for good > cms software. The sheer number of choices is staggering to say the > least. I found Smarty and it seems like it might make a good choice for > my needs. I am really looking to fill two needs. > > One, a robust cms in which I can create standards based web templates > (ie, table less layouts using xhtml strict and css) > > and Two, an easy method in which my clients can still edit their own > content with out having to learn anything new, or at least as little as > possible. Some sort of wysiwyg would be great if that's possible with > out conflicting with existing css styles and as long as it didn't insert > font tags and tables all over. > > Is there a good open source php based cms system out there that can do > the above? I'd sure like to know about it. Thanks for any pointers! > > -Adam R. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
