Content Management System

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A content management system (CMS) is a computer program that allows publishing, editing and modifying content as well as maintenance from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures t o manage workflow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual steps or an automated cascade.

CMS’s are often used to run websites containing blogs, news and shopping. Many corporate and marketing websites use CMS’s. The CMS’s typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding, by providing a friendly interface.

 A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage.

The following are some open source PHP content management systems:

 WORDPRESS : 

It is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, which runs on a Web Hosting Service. Features include a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by more than 18.9% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013. Everything from simple websites, to blogs, to complex portals and enterprise websites, and even applications, are built with WordPress.

WordPress combines simplicity for users and publishers with under-the-hood complexity for developers. This makes it flexible while still being easy-to-use.

The following is a list of some of the features that come as standard with WordPress, however there are literally thousands of plugins that extend what WordPress does, so the actual functionality is nearly limitless. You are also free to do whatever you like with the WordPress code, extend it or modify in any way or use it for commercial projects without any licensing fees

FEATURES:

Simplicity : Simplicity makes it possible for you to get online and get publishing, quickly. Nothing should get in the way of you getting your website up and your content out there. WordPress is built to make that happen.

Flexibility : With WordPress, you can create any type of website you want: a personal blog or website, a photo blog, a business website, a professional portfolio, a government website, a magazine or news website, an online community, even a network of websites. You can make your website beautiful with themes, and extend it with plugins. You can even build your very own application.

Publish with Ease : If you've ever created a document, you're already a whiz at creating content with WordPress. You can create Posts and Pages, format them easily, insert media, and with the click of a button your content is live and on the web.

User Management: Not everyone requires the same access to your website. Administrators manage the site, editors work with content, authors and contributors write that content, and subscribers have a profile that they can manage. This lets you have a variety of contributors to your website, and let others simply be part of your community.

Media Management: They say a picture says a thousand words, which is why it's important for you to be able to quickly and easily upload images and media to WordPress. Drag and drop your media into the up loader to add it to your website. Add alt text, captions, and titles, and insert images and galleries into your content. We've even added a few image editing tools you can have fun with.

Built-in Comments: Your blog is your home, and comments provide a space for your friends and followers to engage with your content. WordPress's comment tools give you everything you need to be a forum for discussion and to moderate that discussion.

Multilingual : WordPress is available in more than 70 languages. If you or the person you're building the website for would prefer to use WordPress in a language other than English.

DRUPAL : 

Drupal is used to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine. Drupal has a well-documented APIs, which is very flexible and limitlessly scalable. Drupal manages content with an easy-to-use web interface. Drupal's flexibility handles countless content types including video, text, blog, podcasts, and polls with robust user management, menu handling, real-time statistics and optional revision control.

Drupal is written in PHP. Although Drupal offers a sophisticated programming interface for developers, no programming skills are required for basic website installation and administration.

Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server  capable of running PHP .

 JOOMLA : 

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility , have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Since Joomla is so easy to use, as a Web Designer or Developer, you can quickly build sites for your clients. Then, with a minimal amount of instruction, you can empower your clients to easily manage their own sites themselves.

Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes.  Since Joomla is based on PHP and MySQL,  powerful applications can be built on an open platform anyone can use, share, and support.

FROG CMS : 

Frog CMS 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. Born as phpRadiant in January 2007, Frog CMS is aPHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application. Although the two applications still share a family resemblance, Frog is charting its own development path.

Frog requires PHP5, a MySQL database or SQLite 3 with PDO, and a web server (Apache with mod_rewrite is highly recommended).

Frog is unique because of its simple templating code. Because it uses PHP directly, there is no need to learn yet another scripting language. This approach has two main advantages:

Normally, PHP is not used in article pages, so it does not frighten the writer who does not want to learn it.The webmaster/designer of the site, the one who will code some basic condition or/and loop to add more dynamics to the website, generally knows some PHP already — at least enough to add some dynamic latest news part, latest articles, photo gallery, etc…

 MAMBO :

Mambo is CMS focused on business, which means that it will handle all your content in addition to offering full commerce options as free plugins. Some users consider Mambo a “Designer’s CMS,” meaning that it has numerous design elements you can add, without it being as geared toward developers. If anything, the criticism of Mambo seems to be that it is too light on features.

Mambo includes nearly all of the major built-in features necessary in a CMS. The overall capabilities of this product make it an effective tool for starting up any type of website. Your site can have easy blogging capabilities, but Mambo also offers an open-source utility that enables you to tweak the coding for your site and change the layout, appearance and style of its elements. One major benefit of this software is that you can add content through the front end, so you don’t always have to log in as an administrator to add to your site.