Oscailt is an open publishing content management system written using PHP with a MySQL database. It is primarily intended for member sites of the Indymedia network, but can be used for any site with an open publishing model and it includes some template sites of simple publishing sites that can be imported at install time. These templates are ideal for anyone wishing to setup their own grassroots based news site.
The latest version is 4.3 and this is the recommended version to use. It works with up to PHP 8.2.8
The full feature set can be found here:
http://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt/documentation/oscailt_4x_features.html
The user guide can be found here:
http://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt/documentation/userguide/Oscailt_4x_UserGuide_toc.html
The user install can be found here:
https://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt/documentation/userguide/Oscailt_3x_InstallConfig_toc.html
Features
- News Content Management System designed for Indymedia sites or any grassroots type sites
- Open Publishing of stories and comments
- Can handle images, audio, video, embedded video and miscelleanous files
- Newswires, gallery and archive
- Event calendar
- Multiple languages and categories for story types, regions, topics and tags
- Can import and export RSS and Atom feeds
- Contact form with anti spam options and custom pages
- Search option
- Administration system with multiple editiorial accounts and roles
- Admininstration pages for site design and layout