I have started investigating some of the content managers out there and
what phpwebsite is missing. I am starting to look into the CVS of
phpwebsite and create a better installation script if no one is working on
it. Was the table prefix ever implemented? Anyone working on it?
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An article at geeklog by the name of ezra gave a summary of where
everything stands for portal systems.
In the past month or two I have installed or compared just about every
piece of software that bills itself as a content manager, portal, or
weblog, searching for a site manager that would work for both the classes I
teach at Cal State Nortridge and for a couple of sites with politically
sensitive material that might come under hacker attack. I essentially have
been living on freshmeat and sourceforge, with frequent side trips to
hotscripts and Zend. Some reactions:
There are surprisingly only two systems with good flood control (the
ability to restrict the frequency of posts by a malevolent user), Geeklog
and Drupal. Drupal unfortunately has a downright Byzantine system for
community voting on both items and comments. If you don't like it you need
to rip out code in massive hunks. However, the Drupal engine has been
stripped down and incorporated into the latest version of HPE, the software
that runs NewsIsFree, so it bears watching.
Of phpNuke and its forks, the parent program has a large following, lots of
plugins, an irascible project owner, and the code is pretty bad spaghetti.
MyPhpNuke has a development community beset by bickering and is probably
worth avoiding. PostNuke is progressing nicely, but suffers from a kind of
kitchen sink approach. Of all the forks, the one I like the most is
phpWebSite, largely because it's being developed in an academic setting
(Appalachian State) and thus seems to be a more orderly project, and
because its releases are becoming increasingly modular. But I'll probably
be switching from phpWS to Geeklog for the security features.
If you don't mind Perl, Scoop is the most robust and active open source
project.
Finally, if your needs are more content management driven and if you've got
root access and/or JSP servlet support, check out EZPublish, Typo3, and if
you're really brave, Knight-Ridder's CoFax content management system. But
you really need to have your own server rather than a virtual host.
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