We've just taken on ModX (www.modxcms.com) as our corporate CMS system.
You can manage documents, and even write your own php "snippets" -
similar idea to Webparts in M$ SharePoint and modules in Mambo, but
they're much easier to create and use. You can design your site from
the ground up if you like (using custom templates etc.)
ModX does have it's downfalls - the lack of DB support being one of them
- it currently only supports mySQL 4 and 5 (although when I get some
spare time I'm going to have a crack at porting it to PostgreSQL.) The
documentation is also fairly lack, but you can get some decent help on
their forums.
The wizard-based installer gets you up and running in very little time
(provided you already have mySQL optimally set up and configured.)
Definitely worth more than just a look!
Andy.
Achilleas Mantzios wrote:
> Hi,
> i am thinking of deploying a CMS system for our corporate web server.
>
> I have seen/installed/tested :
>
> Jboss Portal : Seeems good and standards complying but too unstable
> Apache Lenya : Very unstable - could not get it to any useful work
> Php-nuke : (despite our favor towards java, this seems stable but not what
> we want)
> OpenCMS : Very stable but not so open source - some one has to pay to get
> anything more than the basic
>
> Practically from just browsing and using google one could conclude that there
> are 10ths of
> open source tools that do content management.
> Also it is impractical to install even 10% of them.
> Moreover web articles/reviews/comparisons rarely give anything but biased
> views.
>
> So since i think that our type of need falls in the same big family as the
> ones
> working in the unix/PostgreSQL/java world i would like to ask you about your
> experience
> in this field.
>
> Since we dont consider interfering with the DB backend in our immediate future
> intentions, MySQL will be just as good for us.
> Ofcourse i prefer postgresql for our applications, but if lets say opencms
> started supporting postgresql just a month ago, then postgresql will not be
> as strong a candidate in that case.
>
> In the same sense java is prefered over PHP, since we dont intent to interfere
> with CMS code, but if some killer PHP app does the job, then it will be the
> one selected.
>
> Thanx
>
> Achilleas Mantzios.
>
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