Thursday, March 20, 2014

Open Source PHP CMS

There are plenty of CMS out there, some are paid and some are open source. In spite of dozens of framework only few are success in becoming a development choice. Here is the small list of frameworks which are popular.

Wordpress
      Wordpress has a huge developer community with plenty of documentation and tutorials available.
Provide flexibility to create any kind of site with its collection of free and paid plugins. Major drawback with wordpress is, Security issues and no direct support except user forums and community.

Joomla
     Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications.Joomla! has a long development history and a very active developer community (with over 200,000 users and contributors), so finding information and tutorials is easy.

Drupal
Drupal has a very active community, with a number of IRC channels, forums, and even face-to-face Drupal events. Drupal is used by many high-profile companies.There are more than 6,000 add-ons (“modules”) available for Drupal, making it easy to extend Drupal’s functionality to do just about anything you want. 

SilverStripe
SilverStripe is good for developers and designers who are comfortable with code. It is a flexible open source Content Management System that gives everyone involved in a web project the tools they need to do their jobs. Users can get official support from SilverStrip LTD.

Cushy CMS
It is free for unlimited users, unlimited changes, unlimited pages and unlimited sites but doesn’t let you use your own logo or your own domain name for the admin panel, or customize the admin experience. Because of the nature of CushyCMS, there are no plugins or pre-defined themes.

Concrete5
Concrete 5 comes with the tag "A CMS made for Marketing, but strong enough for Geeks!". It is  very user-friendly for non-technical users, who may be the ones managing the site’s content. According to the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report, concrete5′s developer community is the fastest growing among any open source CMS.

Frog CMS
It simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management. Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application.

MODx
MODX Revolution is the web content management system that gives you complete control over your site and content, with the flexibility and scalability to grow with your business.

List of more CMS

PHP Nuke Free
Post Nuke Free
Open Effect Free
Uber PHP CMS Free (German)
Fire Site Free
EZ Publish Free (You can pay to recieve it on a cd with documentation etc) 
Site Box Free
Bee Hive Free version and Paid version (didn't have a price)
Mambo Server Free and Paid versions
Typo3 Free (thanks mjames)
Harpia Free
PHP Portal Project Free/Pay (thanks galt) 

Some more CMS

APC ActionApps - http://www.apc.org/actionapps/
Ariadne - http://www.muze.nl/ariadne/
Back-End - http://www.back-end.org
Bitflux - http://www.bitflux.ch/developer/
Bricolage - http://www.bricolage.cc/
C-Arbre - http://realink.org/c-arbre/doc/
CAMPSITE - http://www.campware.org/campsite/
Cocoon - http://xml.apache.org
Cofax - http://www.cofax.org
Coranto - http://coranto.gweilo.org/
DaCode - http://www.dacode.org
DCP-Portal - http://www.dcp-portal.com
Easy Publisher - http://www.easypublisher.com
Edit-X - http://www.edit-x.com/
Geeklog - http://www.geeklog.org
Krysalis - http://www.interakt.ro/products/Krysalis/index.php
Mambo - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mambo/
Mason - http://www.masonhq.com/
mCubes - http://www.mCubes.com/
Metadot - http://www.metadot.net
Midgard - http://www.midgard-project.org/
MMBase - http://www.mmbase.org
MySource - http://mysource.squiz.net/
N/X - http://nxwcms.sourceforge.net/
OpenACS - http://openacs.org/
OpenCMS - http://www.opencms.org
Pagetool - http://www.pagetool.org
phpCMS - http://phpcms.de/homepage/phpcms/index.htm
PHPNuke - http://www.phpnuke.org
PHProjekt - http://www.phprojekt.com/
phpSlash - http://www.phpslash.org
phpWebSite - http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/
Redhat CCM - http://www.redhat.com/software/ccm/
Scoop - http://scoop.kur5hin.org
Slash - http://www.slashcode.com
Squishdot - http://www.squishdot.org
SSR - http://www.ssrtech.com/
TeaServlet - http://opensource.go.com/
thatware - http://www.atthat.com/
ttCMS - http://www.ttcms.com
Webgenerator-X - http://webgenerator-x.com
WebGUI - http://plainblack.com/webgui
WebMake - http://webmake.taint.org/
WebTop - http://webtop.newfangled.com
Wyona - http://www.wyona.org/
Xinity - http://www.xinity.org/
Xoops - http://xoops.sourceforge.net/
Zope - http://www.zope.org
EZ Contents - http://www.visualshapers.com
SiteWorksPro - http://www.siteworkspro.com/
VirtuaNews - http://www.virtuanews.co.uk/

Let me know if i have missed out some of your favorite CMS in this list.

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