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Open Source Content Management Discussion?

Posted by Cliff on from the because-content-won't-manage-itself dept.

Media Girl asks: "As someone considering the vast array of GNU/open source CMS systems out there (and right here), what have been the experiences, insights and opinions of developers on the various programs out there, such as Slash, Scoop, Drupal, PHPslash and the various Nukes? CMS Matrix has a nice comparison grid of features, but there seems to be a lot left between the lines, and the Perl powerhouses are left out of the matrix. How do the typical components (blogs, articles, comments, karma) compare? What about modality, security and speed under heavy loads? What about the quality of ongoing development and activity of the app's community? What's leading edge and not bleeding edge? And what about the Perl/PHP debate? Can we take a snapshot of this realm of open source web development applications and hash it around a bit?"

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  1. Community V. Content by idiotfromia · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's way too many content management systems out there that focus too much on the content aspect. I found it hard to locate quality open source CMS that wasn't trying to be Slashdot-like. Many people just want some for easily organizing lots of pages in a quick and easy manner. They don't all want to have forums, user profiles, galleries, news, or blogs built into the system.

    Keep it simple, stupid.

  2. Typo3 rules them all by smeat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In my not so humble opinion, if you want a full featured and supported open source CMS get typo3.

    They have freaking instructional videos for $DEITIES sake.

    Marketing page:
    http://www.typo3.com/

    Community pages.
    http://www.typo3.org/

    smeat!

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  3. Try em yourself by insensitive+claude · · Score: 5, Informative

    Open Source CMS

  4. Slashcode considered harmful by FooAtWFU · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashcode produces horribly mangled non-standards-compliant HTML (and it claims to be HTML 3.2). Consider something else besides it. :)

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  5. Re:PHPNuke by a.koepke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    PHPNuke has gotta be one of the most poorly written PHP apps available. Run the code with the error level set at E_ALL and watch the amount of notices you get for undefined variables and improperly used array references.

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  6. Don't install phpNuke by baldass_newbie · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a freaking security nightmare.
    Once you get on the defacement lists, expect to get hit with every new 'sploit as soon as they're out. Francisco Burzi may be a nice guy, but he doesn't know shit about coding secure PHP. If you're going to run it, you'll at least need one of the secure releases or better yet...

    Use drupal. Very solid, safe, secure and easily configurable. The toughest bit is figuring out taxonomy or categories that the various entries (blogs, forum topics, stories, etc.) adhere to. These things are all 'nodes', btw. But once you have your categories down, you're done.

    You can even search for a script to do the conversion from phpNuke to drupal, and no drupal doesn't require any special directories. Give it a whirl.

    And if folks are whoring sites, then I'll whore mine.
    Brew-Masters
    I have the throttle hooked up, so hopefully it won't get slashdotted, but then it doesn't look like this thread is getting a lot of comments.

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