20 Promising Open Source PHP Content Management Systems(CMS)
Content Management System, or CMS is an application used to manage news easily so that users can publish, edit and delete articles from the back-end admin system. HTML and other scripting language are not necessary to operate a CMS, though having them will add more advantages.
Since we had looked into 22 open source PHP frameworks, i decided to do a roundup of 20 Open Source PHP Content Management Systems so that readers who don’t have strong PHP knowledge can easily create their website using free and open source CMS.
1. Wordpress
Wordpress is a powerful yet easy to use content management system. Initially it was designed as a blogging platform. However, it slowly become popular and can be customized into a powerful CMS with some tricks and plugins. I had wrote an article about Wordpress SEO plugins and also talked about things that you should know about Wordpress 2.8.
2. Drupal
Drupal is a free and open source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites.
3. Joomla
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
4. Frog CMS
Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management.
5. SilverStripe
SilverStripe is a PHP CMS built with Sapphire framework, and it uses MVC design pattern. you can view example sites that built with SilverStripe from the official webpage.
6. Mambo
Mambo is a full-featured, award-winning content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Although some Mambo sites had already migrated to Joomla, but i think i should include Mambo as it is still a great CMS.
7. TYPOlight
TYPOlight is a PHP 5 CMS and it has a lot of features such as live update, cross-browser CSS framework generator(IE7 compatible), templated based front end output, use Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies. You should check out the main page for more info.
8. Concrete5
Concrete5 is an open source content management system with simple administaror interface. You can edit a web page live by using the editing toolbar provided after you log in as administrator.
9. Textpattern
Textpattern is yet another very popular content management system. It requires PHP 4 to run and has a lot of plugins that you can use for various customizations.
10. Symphony
Symphony is a CMS that uses XML/XSLT as its templating language. Symphony lets you customize anything you like, from the website’s URL structure to your publishing environment. For a non programmer, this CMS might be complicated to learn.
11. MODx
MODx is both a PHP application framework and content management system. MODx is the first free PHP CMS to offer an API that fully supports Web 2.0 Ajax technology. It is SEO friendly CMS, and allows you to configure the meta content for each page.
12. Habari Project
Habari is a highly recommended open source blogging platform. It is being written specifically for modern web hosting environment, and uses modern object oriented programming techniques.
13. CMS Made Simple
CMS Made Simple is highly customizable and there are a lot of Modules for you to download. The Documentation is pretty complete and easy to follow.
14. ImpressCMS
ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System. It is highly scalable and is extremely useful for managing online communities.
15. Exponent CMS
Exponent uses an intuitive and flexible content editing system that allows website pages to be edited on the page as it is displayed. You can download modules and themes from the official website too!
16. MiaCMS
MiaCMS is a fork of the Mambo CMS. It has a powerful and extensible third party entension system, and also a flexible site theming capabilities. MiaCMS supports OpenID and can consider to be a stable and mature CMS.
17. Jojo CMS
Jojo is a search engine friendly CMS. You will have SEO friendly URL to your article, and Jojo will handle www/non-www domains for you. Beside SEO friendly, Jojo also lets you extend the functionality by adding product databases, blogs, image galleries or whatever takes your fancy.
18. TYPO3
TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.
19. Elxis CMS
Elxis CMS comes with a lot of features such as Search Engine Friendly URL, strong security, adjustable member list and complete user profiles. Its automated tasks, modern design, AJAX technology and multi-lingual interface helps you be more productive.
20. Chyrp
Chyrp is a lightweight blogging platform and it uses Twig as the templating engine. The documentation is quite complete and you can download a lot of useful modules from the main site.
Category Inspiration, PHP, Last Modified: 24 Ekim 2009 Author: uralozden | Giriş
thanks for this great post.
No Cakephp?
I wasn’t familiar with a few of these here, thanks for bringing them up. There’s some good ones there – Frog has been a firm favourite for the last 12 months for its flexibility. However, some of the software on this list are extremely confusing which makes them difficult to use, if otherwise technically sound. What about Pixie which is really easy to use – http://www.getpixie.co.uk?
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Amazing, I’m always wondering about CMS – My favorite: WordPress.
CakePHP is a framework, not a CMS
What is the reason u posted this thread?
The word “Promising” implies great potential.
Several systems mentioned here were great but do not actively develop anymore. For instance modX has seen a long time without major updates. Mambo is the predecessor of Joomla. Al great Mambo programmers went to Joomla. So Mambo is not real proimising anymore. Joomla also is a big CMS, but it has been a long while since a major update and it lacks a lot of funcionality users want standard and other systems offer in a way more user friendly way (eg look at concrete 5)
As a PHP/CMS professional i would rather see this post being called “20 must know OSCMS” for they are al good systems and they all mean a great deal in the OSCMS segment, past or future. Some of them however will not be on any list of populair CMS’s in 2 years
Good listing though, but with the wrong name :)
You forgot the best CMS out there…. ocPortal!!!
http://ocportal.com
ocPortal is the web content management system (software for building and maintaining a dynamic website) that keeps you behind the wheel.
ocPortal’s powerful feature-set means there’s always a way to accomplish your vision.
Not only does it have all the features you’d expect: for instance galleries, news, file downloads and community forums/chats, but it does so whilst meeting the highest accessibility and professional standards. It is also smart enough to go beyond page management, to automatically handle search engine optimisation, and provide aggressive hack attack prevention.
With ocPortal, you get much more than just a Content Management System.
Alternativ till WordPress: 20 CMS inom öppen källkod…
WordPress är det idag mest populära verktyget för att publicera en blogg. Det är dock långt ifrån det enda. Inom marknaden för öppen källkod finns mängder av så kallade CMS-system – Content Management Systems – som hjälper dig att hantera o…
So many open source projects are started every day, and it’s great to see so many CMS systems being created with PHP. It’s definitely the way of web programming is looking to go for the future, and I’m excited to be apart of the movement.
Not sure what Fiber is talking about concerning Modx. That CMS has seen SEVERAL updates and even has a whole new version being built from the ground up on xPDO called Modx Revolution. I think that’s VERY promising and highly recommend that CMS as a whole.
I do agree that “promising” here might be a bit of a misnomer in general though.
OMG~~Why you can missing E107???
I am a fan of Wordpress, did start out with Joomla but it is so confusing to work with.
Great post
Dan
This is a kind of useless post, since basically anyone can go to CMS matrix to compile an equivalent of this list.
It would be more interesting if anyone actually took the time (and effort) to install and test drive all of these CMS systems, listing differences, pros and cons.
WORDPRESS is a blogger, not a CMS!
@CMS
read this: WordPress as a CMS
Thanks for the list. Just to add on, these small but well built cms/blog solutions are worth mentioning:
1 – Nanocms (http://nanocms.in)
2 – Pritlog (http://hardkap.net/pritlog)
They missed http://www.django-cms,org? :-)
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There is a new Open Source CMS that looks a lot better than any of those CMSs.. The interface looks awesome http://mini.squiz.net/ and the inline editing that I have never seen before.
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20개의 유명한 PHP 오픈 소스 CMS(컨텐츠 매니지먼트 시스템)…
For me wordpress is like bells in my ears. Just super cool CMS.
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typo3 isn’t downloadable for local installation?
typo3 no dowloadable?
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