Attention web developers: Please nominate a CMS.

[brainshrub]

It will be a useful reference for DUers.

Full explanation here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=288x180

Thanks-in-advance for your input.

[FormerDittoHead]

1. Lots of info here.

General resource link: http://www.opensourcecms.com

There are many 'blogs' out there, but they are quite simple to a php-nuke/phpwebsite type of app.

Unfortunately, many people make their choice upon how it LOOKS out of the box, without realizing that appearances can be changed.

I won't comment on the simple blog cms's (I've used "b2" which is fine, but there are many other good ones). Years ago, I used to use .shtml pages and a simple perl program ( http://gwscripts.com/scripts/npub.shtml )to do the work. Nowadays, my clients and friends *NEED* a *GOOD* CALENDAR app (caps for those who will glide right past that one) and BBS integration.

I've done a lot of work lately trying to decide which one(s) I should focus on, because ultimately, I'd have to invest time learning its in's and out's.

I've used PHP-Nuke, and I like it, but I hate, hate, HATE the policies of the guy who's running php-nuke - even WORSE than the MySQL licensing crap. Look, you CAN make money with GPL software, just not THOSE ways, *if* you want people to adopt and extend it.

PHP-Nuke is *doomed* because GPL software depends upon free code contributions, but the guy wants to CHARGE people to download the program and other free software? I don't give a crap about what his lawyers have told him, etc. I'm not recommending PHP-Nuke until he learns his lesson.

I tried (and retried) CPGNuke, but it's not ready for release and I had too many problems.

I'm currently using Post-Nuke. My basic problems with it is that it's home page http://www.postnuke.org is confusing at best - it's difficult to find things there, and don't hold your breath waiting for replies on their message board. There IS much 3rd party support, however, and I've found some very nice themes which you can freely edit, etc. There are some other issues like some hard coding of formatting, rather than leaving it to templates and CSS, but at least the source is open.

Postnuke has a very nice adaptation of PHPCalendar and integrated PHPBB. Not being interested in the many other types of blocks and modules, I've stopped there because I'm happy with it.

PHPWebsite is a close runner up. It too has an very good calendar app and is quite easy to use once you get used to it.

I have yet to incorporate HTMLArea into the editing blocks of either one, but I know this can be done in PHPWebsite.

[brainshrub]

3. Thank you for your observations.

May I cut-and-past your comments into the Website, DB, & Software Developers Group later this week?

[FormerDittoHead]

4. Sure, however...

You'd have to add Mambo to the message - I'm checking it out for the first time today (found out it has a calendar module) - it looks pretty cool...

[salvorhardin]

2. Drupal

Heh -- but I bet you already knew my response. :-)

PHPWebsite is also very good. Developed by Appalachian State University.
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu