Good CMS software

PhantomBeaker

Hi,

I hope I'm posting to the right area.

Basically I'm looking for some half-decent free CMS (Content Management System - i.e. where a user doesn't need to know much about html to create a full website) software. Preferably based on php (it's going to be running on a unix system, so ASP is too much trouble (but not impossible), but we might stretch to CFML (There's a program called Blue Dragon that we might be running anyway which handles cold fusion - going to be running it for a client anyway)).

I'm not looking for anything huge, except that a few rss features should be available - like being able to generate feeds, and also aggregate other feeds. The other thing is that it should be ok for a single-user environment - as opposed to running a community website where anyone can register as a user and log in. I'm currently experimenting with CMSmadesimple (found rather unsurprisingly at http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/ ) but the RSS stuff is rather spectacularly broken - in so far that it generates a feed, but I've not found a single client that reads it... similar with its aggregation module. D'oh.

So I was wondering if anyone's had any good experiences with any other open (GPL, BSD or perl artistic licence would be a good guideline) CMSs, especially in terms of how easy it was to set up (especially how much freedom it needs from the webserver in terms of overrides and stuff (i.e. .htaccess directives) or if it needs global_vars set etc), I'd love to hear about them.

Take care,
Phantom Beaker.

MartMax

there loads of them out there, what differ is on ur taste.
i just name few which made so much publicity before and after time.

- phpnuke
- postnuke
- xoops
- mambo

u can find more from http://sourceforge.net

i believe most of those CMSs allow the features like multi-users/comments/ to be enable/disable as the way u like. and i guess RSS thing is common nowadays.

good luck.

PhantomBeaker

Hey, thanks!

I was thinking more along the lines of are there any that people have had good experiences with, themselves? Like where they'd say "Yeah, I really like this one. I use it myself." That kinda thing?

(Edit: Not that I amn't testing all that I can get my hands on, it's just I want to see if there are any that people are recommending that I might want to check first - they'd still be tested etc, just I'd have a look at the ones that people thought were cool before the unknown ones)

Take care,
P.B.

MartMax

i'm prettey much in love with WordPress nowadays... it is not a CMS but a blogging software, but i think it can work out the RSS thingy as you looking for. i've posted abt what I do wt WordPress before :

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=248891

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=256245

hope those will help.

mneylon

I'd recommend Typo3.