Offline processing

• These systems pre-process all content, applying templates before publication to generate Web pages. Vignette CMS and Bricolage are examples of this type of system. Since pre-processing systems do not require a server to apply the templates at request time, they may also exist purely as design-time tools; Adobe Contribute is an example of this approach.

Online processing

• These systems apply templates on-demand. HTML may be generated when a user visits the page, or pulled from a cache. Hosted CMSs are provided by such SaaS developers as AspireCMS, Bravenet, UcoZ, Freewebs and Crownpeak.
• Some of the better known open source systems that produce pages on demand include Concrete5, Mambo, Joomla!, Drupal, TYPO3, Zikula and Plone, etc…
• DotNetNuke is a partially open source CMS that runs on asp.net and is free to download and install. DNN produces pages on demand but levels and types of caching can be set. There are also many additional “modules” that can be purchased or installed for free to extend the functionality of DNN as needed, many of which create data and content dynamically.
• Most Web application frameworks perform template processing in this way, but they do not necessarily incorporate content management features. Wikis, e.g. MediaWiki and TWiki generally follow an online model (with varying degrees of caching), but generally do not provide document workflow.

Hybrid Systems

• Some systems combine the offline and online approaches. Some systems write out executable code (e.g. JSP, ASP, PHP,ColdFusion,Perl pages) rather than just static HTML, so that the CMS itself does not need to be deployed on every Web server. Other hybrids, such as Blosxom, are capable of operating in either an online or offline mode.

osCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by project founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon as The Exchange Project. While osCommerce is still officially in its development stage, the current Milestone 2.2 release (Release Candidate 2a) is considered stable. As of August 2008 the osCommerce site says that there are over 14,000 ‘live’ websites using the program.  This number is almost certainly conservative, given the inclusion of osCommerce in hosting panel application installers such as Fantastico (web hosting) and its dependency on osCommerce users linking their sites into the osCommerce Live Stores listings.

The planned Milestone 3.0 is expected to be a major re-write of the program to incorporate an object-oriented backend, a template system to allow easy layout changes, and inclusion of an administration-area username and password definition during installation . An early release candidate of osCommerce 3.0 (osCommerce Online Merchant 3.0A4) has been available for download since Mar 31 2007, 03:11 AM

On 29th of October, 2008 it was announced by Harald Ponce de Leon (Project Leader) that the goal is to get v2.2 finalized and to release v3.0 Alpha 5 as soon as possible.

Oscommerce v2.2 was finalised released by oscommerceproject.org on the 11th of December 2008 due to a lack of progress by the original projects founder. Milestone 3 core seems to be considered out of date by the project & a version 4 is being discussed.

Other Information

• Developed by  Harald Ponce de Leon
• Latest release  2.2 RC 2a / 2008-01-30;
• Preview release  3.0 Alpha 5 “Vanillekipferl” / 2009-03-14;
• Written in  PHP
• OS  Cross-platform
• Type  Webshop
• License  GNU General Public License
• Website  http://www.oscommerce.com/

The ImpressCMS Project was formed in late 2007 as a result of a division in the XOOPS community[1]. Many of the developers for ImpressCMS were veteran developers, designers and users with extensive experience with XOOPS and sought to establish a new community built CMS with a philosophy of openness, community contributions and continual improvements in code and features. The core platform of ImpressCMS was inherited from XOOPS, but was quickly transformed into a product distinct from its parent, yet maintaining compatibility with modules and themes originally designed for XOOPS. This compatibility allows users a choice of platforms and provides them a migration path to ImpressCMS.

The product is released under the GNU General Public License Version 2 and is available for download from the ImpressCMS website. Support is offered by the community and is open to all users of ImpressCMS

Requirements

• ImpressCMS 1.0
  • Web Server – Apache, IIS, or similar web server
  • Language – PHP version 4.3, or higher (PHP 4.2.x may work but is not officially supported)
  • Database – MySQL version 3.23, or higher
• ImpressCMS 1.1
  • Web Server – Apache, IIS, or similar web server
  • Language – PHP version 5.2, or higher (PHP 5.1.x may work but is not officially supported)
  • Database – MySQL version 4.1, or higher
  • PHP requirements – 16mb minimum memory allocation for PHP, UTF-8 & IconV support (recommended)

Features

ImpressCMS uses an open architecture, allowing webmasters to add modules into the core CMS for additional functionality. Modules exist that have been developed by an international community of developers, designers and fans and are able to handle most every task associated with the managing of web content and an online community.

Basic Features of ImpressCMS:

• Database driven
• Granular permissions for users and groups
• Complete user profiles and private messaging
• Customizable themes and templates
• Integrated comment system, with moderation options
• Integrated management for banner advertising
• Site-wide search function
• Multibyte language support – distributions are available in Brazilian Portuguese, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, Spanish

New Features Added in Version 1.0

These new features were introduced in the first version of ImpressCMS and were not part of a standard XOOPS installation.

• Native multilingual support allows tagging of content in various languages and users can select an appropriate language for themselves
• Completely redesigned administration interface, making it more intuitive to manage
• Ability to create custom block positions for the user side, allowing greater flexibility of design and layout
• Easy cloning of any existing block with a single click
• Completely redesigned installation wizard making it easier and more intuitive for new user to install and configure ImpressCMS; also, inline help has been added to the wizard to help the user on every step of the installation
• Many security improvements, the most important being the introduction of the Trust Path concept, placing sensitive data outside the web root. This is automatically created for you by the installation wizard
• Automatic version checker to inform the webmaster a new version is available
• Addition of a privacy policy feature customizable by the webmaster
• Users can select a custom theme and save it in their preferences
• Introductory welcome content provided for the new users as part of the installation
• Introduction of HTTP error handling page using .htaccess file
• Users can select to have their login remembered on their computer; administrators can enable/disable this feature

Other Information

• Developed by  The ImpressCMS Project
• Latest release  1.1 / 31 October 2008; 50 days ago
• Written in  PHP
• OS  Cross-platform
• Type  Content Management System
• License  GPL

Links

• Website  ImpressCMS.org

CMS Made Simple provides a mechanism for the website administrator to create and manage “pages”, their layout, and their content. CMS Made simple is unobtrusive…. You can create a table based layout, or a fully validating XHTML/CSS layout.

CMS Made Simple makes managing the navigation in your website a breeze… you can re-organize your pages any way you want, and navigations are automatically created from your page hierarchy. This tool makes creating numerous different navigations with the entire page hierarchy, or a subset of it “simple”.

CMS Made Simple separates layout code from content code, so that editors can manage content without having to know much about how websites work, so that layouts can be easily edited and take effect on numerous pages, and can be easily shared. With CMS Made Simple you design once, and easily use that same design over and over again. Smarty (a php based templating engine) is used to provide most of the caching, templating, and logic capabilities. This basic building block also provides the ability for website administrators to virtually eliminate any duplication of code or content.

The Core package provides the ability to manage news articles, search functionality a contact form, a WYSIWYG editor (for your customers or editors) and numerous other built in functions. Additionally, there are hundreds of third party add-on tools that are quickly and easily installable to allow building websites with many different capabilities.

CMS Made Simple is built in PHP, and allows you to integrate many existing PHP scripts or PHP snippets into your website… Though you definately don’t need indepth knowledge of PHP to use CMS Made Simple.

Who should use CMS Made Simple?

If you’re an experienced web developer. If you have found that sometimes creating a simple corporate or organization website is difficult in some of the other content management systems. If you have found that other CMS’s are sometimes “overkill” for what you need. If you want to be able to hand off the content management to editors. If you want complete control over the layout and appearance of the site, and you know how to do it… If you want a simple, easy to use, yet expandable tool – then CMS Made Simple is probably for you.

CMS Made Simple is not a replacement for packages that build static websites like Dreamweaver or FrontPage, etc. These packages don’t use databases, provide little in the way of dynamic content, and usually content cannot be edited by customers.

Is CMS Made Simple really “simple”?

Yes it is. Many of our experienced users find it a simple tool for building many websites. However, that does not mean that there isn’t some learning to be done. You will at the least need to learn our vocabulary, explore the package and it’s options, play around a bit, and probably do considerable learning. Did you jump right in to HTML and learn how to do professional websites in 30 minutes. Probably not, and CMS packages (including this one) are similar. There are a few things you will need to learn.
5. What knowledge do I need?

To take advantage of CMS Made Simple, you should have at a minimum a basic understanding of:

• Creating Databases, and backing up / restoring databases.
• Working with, and transferring files to a remote host
• Manipulating permissions on remote hosts
• A basic understanding of HTML and CSS
• Diagnosing errors:

From time to time, with different hosts, problems do occur in any online application. When working with these, you need a basic understanding of how they work, and how to diagnose some problems, so that you can assist the support personnel, or perhaps identify and solve the problem on your own. This includes:

• Finding your website error logs and access logs
• The ability to understand some of the error messages or access log lines
• The ability to find, identify and to some level diagnose Javascript errors
• An ability to learn independently, and do some research on your own.

What are the system requirements?

• Web server with PHP 4.3+ (Linux/Unix, Windows 2000/XP/ME/2003, OS X)
  • (CMS Made Simple does not officially support PHP safe mode)
  • At least 16mb of available memory for PHP (This should work fine for most small to medium sized websites. However, as your site grows, or you utilize other addon modules, your memory requirements may increase.)
  • PHP tokenizer support enabled
  • At least one of ImageMagick or GD enabled
  • MySQL 3.23 or 4.0+ or PostgreSQL 7 +
  • Enough access to your server to upload files and change some permissions

Where can I get help/support?

There are numerous forms of support available for CMS Made Simple:

• The default content: – The well documented content pages, templates and stylesheets that are displayed with a new installation of CMS Made Simple are an invaluable way of introducing yourself to the package and getting to know how the package works. We encourage you to read all of this thoroughly and save this information for future reference while building your website.
• The Documentation
• Built in Help: -   Each module and tag installed in a CMS Made Simple website includes basic help and examples to assist in utilizing the the functionality.
• Public/Community support

The CMS Made Simple forum is an invaluable way of finding out information about the CMS Made Simple core, and the add-ons. There are thousands of posts by the development team and members of our community that describe the various problems our users have encountered, and how they were solved.

We attempt to keep the forum clean from distracting posts, or posts that are not directly and specifically relevant to CMS Made Simple. Additionally, in order to expedite support, we ask that all users spend the time to research, and accurately describe their issues. Therefore please read and follow the forum rules when posting.

• Commercial Support: – Paid support is available to those people with an important project that are concerned about the turn-around time that may be related to getting an issue solved. Additionally, if you would like to have somebody to call for problems that you just can’t fix, upgrade issues, backups, or any other concern, then commercial support may be an option for you.
• Paid Development: – So you’ve got the tool up and running, and you like what you see…. but your project requires some functionality that isn’t yet available for CMS… or doesn’t quite work the way you want it to. For that, the CMS Made Simple Development Team offers independent contracting services. Our in-depth knowledge of the tool, and experience in building the package and its add-on modules can ensure that you get a working, well fitting, quality tool.

Other Information

• Developer:  Ted Kulp
• Current version:  1.5.1 “San Juan”(04 December 2008)
• Operating system:  all LAMP systems, Windows and Mac
• Category:  Content Management System
• License:  GPL (free software)

Links

• Official Website
• Theme
• Modules
• Tags and Plugins
• Download

SilverStripe offers a flexible MVC development framework known as Sapphire. Much like Ruby on Rails, but for PHP, it ensures developers are capable of extending and enhancing the functionality of the CMS and the website. More importantly, SilverStripe provides developers with complete control of the generated markup; allowing for higher, semantic standards of XHTML.

SilverStripe is released under the terms of the BSD Licence. An abundance of documentation is available from the SilverStripe help website and wiki. An online demonstration of the CMS is located at the SilverStripe demo website.

History

Prior to SilverStripe 2.x, the CMS was commercially available under a proprietary license. Development efforts for SilverStripe 2.X started in late 2005, as a complete overhaul to take advantage of object orientation and new features in PHP5. On 3 February 2007, SilverStripe 2.0.0 was released publicly as free and open source software.

Motivations and reasoning for moving towards an open source development model were the anticipated results of greater exposure, higher quality code and community contributions.

In March 2007, SilverStripe was selected for the Google Summer of Code programme. The contributions of the students who participated in the programme ultimately resulted in the 2.2 release of SilverStripe.

On 29 November 2007, SilverStripe announced they would be participating in the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) contest. This led to a proliferation of themes, translations and widgets that broadened the system.

Features and Add-ons

Notable features include multiple methods of organising navigation through folksonomy, a flexible data object model, multiple templates per page, a separate “Draft site” and “Published site” through staging content, asset management, image resizing, versioning control, search engine friendly URLs with meta-data, automatic sitemap generation, full text search and RSS feeds. SilverStripe supports UTF-8 and the internationalisation of character sets; the CMS is currently available in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Polish and Portuguese.

Modules

The highly modular nature of SilverStripe has resulted in the creation of numerous pre-build modules that extend the core functionality of the CMS. A list of available modules is viewable below:

• Blog
• E-commerce
• Embargo/expiry
• External Authentication (LDAP, AD, etc)
• Flickr Gallery
• Forum
• Gallery
• Maps
• Technorati
• Youtube Gallery

Widgets

Widgets are small pieces of useful functionality that can be instantly dragged and dropped into a website. A list of available modules is viewable below:

• Built-in widgets for the blog module
• Countdown
• Del.icio.us
• Digg
• Featured Video
• Feedburner
• Feedburner Email Subscription
• Google Adsense
• Google Custom Search
• IMStatus
• LanguageChooser
• last.fm
• Links
• NASA image of the day
• New Users
• Ohloh contribution
• PayPal donation
• Popular Blog Posts
• Recent Page Comments
• Time
• TwitterStatus
• WoW Character

Themes

The SilverStripe themes directory provides a number of community-contributed, freely available themes; providing developers and website owners with the capability to instantly modify the aesthetics of their SilverStripe website.

Software Requirements

SilverStripe is a web application, requiring a compatible HTTP server and SQL database. As of version 2.2.0 (28 November 2007), the requirements for SilverStripe are as follows:

• Apache v1.3.19+ or Lighttpd with mod_rewrite support
• MySQL v4.1.X+
• PHP 5.2+ with MySQL, GD_Graphics_Library and Zlib support

Other Information

• Developed by  SilverStripe
• Latest release  2.2.3 / 31 October 2008;
• OS  Cross-platform
• Type  Content management system
• License  BSD Licence

Links

• Official website
• Online demonstration website
• Official help documentation
• Community forums
• Developer documentation wiki

O’Reilly Media wants to help make working with the Drupal web content management system just a bit easier. Many people realize that when working with a CMS of any kind, even an open source option, things can get pretty hairy for those not overly savvy with code and module configuration. Using Drupal’s goal is to eliminate as much frustration and as many wrong turns as possible.

Go to Source

Go to Source

Jadu, the Web Content Management vendor, has released a product that will help bridge the gap between PHP and .NET software development languages. The company’s Phalanger PHP compiler will allow PHP applications to be compiled into the .NET framework.

This new product from Jadu will help bridge the gap between .NET, a common application framework found in corporate environments, and PHP, the most popular web programming language found on open source web services on the Internet. As a result, companies should be able to shave off application development costs.

Go to Source

CMSWire hasn’t talked a great deal about open source ECM provider Nuxeo lately, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been hard at work enhancing their CMS solution and building new products — they have. In fact, we had an opportunity to see just what Nuxeo has been up to lately – new Digital Asset Management Product to name one thing – and where they are headed next year – dare we say the cloud?

Go to Source

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:

• Corporate Web sites or portals
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
• E-commerce and online reservations
• Government applications
• Small business Web sites
• Non-profit and organizational Web sites
• Community-based portals
• School and church Web sites
• Personal or family homepages

Joomla is the most popular open source CMS currently available as evidenced by a vibrant and growing community of friendly users and talented developers. Joomla’s roots go back to 2000 and, with over 200,000 community users and contributors, the future looks bright for the award-winning Joomla Project.

Other Information

• Developed by  The Joomla Core Team
• Latest release  1.5.8 / November 10, 2008
• OS  Cross-platform
• Type  Content Management System
• License  GPL

Links

• Joomla News
• Joomla Extensions
• Website  joomla.org