Topic: content management system

[Scott Smith]

I'm about to launch into an effort to install a CMS on a system. Most of the nuke-ish systems seem to be appropriate, provided there is some sort of a forum capability and the concept of a user login (to provided targeted content.) Thought I'd solicit this group for opinions on the following:

php-Nuke
PostNuke
myPhpNuke
phpWebSite
phpCMS

Those are all php-based systems. I've also found this one in perl:

WebGUI

Here's my thinking on these after spending a few nights researching and doing basic install/poke around tests.

php-Nuke -- most features, most themes, most add-ons, most bugs, lots of attitude from the author, biggest system resource hog.

PostNuke -- too new, stable but has several bugs, looks like it will be good once finished, but nowhere near finished.

myPhpNuke -- where most of the unhappy php-Nuke crowd goes. Having some development problems recently, but a fair number of features. Has something of a cobbled-together feel to it.

phpWebSite -- limited features and maturity, like PostNuke, but otherwise similar to other nukes. Somewhat simpler to install and maintain, but part of that is due to reduced feature set. Level of commitment and ability to sustain in a university development environment is worrisome.

phpCMS -- interesting model, very different from the nukes. Concerns about flat-file data structures, and also having most docs in German only.

WebGUI -- nice system, in perl, good feature set, seems to be in active development. No free support and limited documentation.

Currently I'm leaning towards phpWebSite or myPhpNuke -- tied -- with a bit of interest in WebGUI. I'd appreciate comments from others with experience with one or more of these. Comparative input would be especially helpful.

Thanks

Scott

[John Lewis]

Another option is Geeklog, which is coming along quickly.

http://geeklog.sourceforge.net/

It is not as much of a resource hog, and treats security a little differently from the php-nuke derivatives.

[DavidG]

Take a look at what Darrell May did with MyPhpNuke for E-smith (http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/e-smith-gw-myphpnuke-1.8.7-1.noarch.rpm). It is a very clean install and it installs under the /opt file system, not in an i-bay.
It is the latest "production" version. The newest version should be released soon.

regards

[steve macgregor]

I am diggin' PostNuke. I like the direction the development is heading including the re-development and re-thinking of user organization. Development is active and well mannered and the number of bugs is quite low. I suppose I tend to think of my use and modification of Post-Nuke as lending a hand in the development as my personal concept of open source development leads me to believe. I guess that one of the reasons I chose it. It might be worth reading deeper into the Post-Nuke vision and some of the development articles.

Now that that is out of the way, installing myphpnuke via .rpm into e-smith is just straight-up sexy.

For what it's worth,

Steve MacGregor
www.grape.dyndns.org

[J-L Boers]

Going along with Steve's comment (Hi Steve!), Darell's rpm is in deed straight up sexy. It works quite well.

I also finished testing my Post-Nuke How-to's on SME 5 (clean install and a 4.1.2 to 5.0 upgrade.) They work.

Also, Post nuke just did a minor update to 0.63 which for me only really added modules to P-N. It works really well too.

My howto's are at : http://boers.cc/howto

J-L Boers

[Lloyd Norris]

Hello, first of all I'm a newbie to linux and e-smith, anyway I installed the Darrell May rpm and i read through the docs but still can't get anything in my browser (ie:http://mydomain/opt/groupware/html/index.php) I've enabled webmail which should turn on php processing(?). What am I doing wrong besides being a chowderhead? Thanks in advance

[Lloyd Norris]

Nevermind, http://mydomain.com/mpn/admin.php DUH!
Thanks anyway!

[aj henley]

No, the ultimate CMS for php is ezpublish (at http://developer.ez.no) and yes, it works under e-smith.

[Scott Smith]

Okay, folks, several comments stating personal preferences -- thanks for that. But there is not much as to WHY your choice is "THE ONE". Maybe you've tried them all and "know" the one is the best choice. But why? I'd really like to know why you like the CMS you've promoted. Is it ease of installation? Simple administration? Elaborate or plain presentation style? Basic or robust user management? The use of templates? End-user content management? What exactly is it about YOUR selection that caused you to choose it over the others? Maybe you just like the logo -- and that's fine -- but could you share that info?

Thanks

Scott

[zenon]

Could you please give the list of packages you have use ?
I have some difficulty with ImageMagic !!

Thanks

[aj henley]

Installing Imagemagick
(I don't know that all steps are necessary, but I do know this is what I did while installing ezpublish, and since ezpublish requires Imagemagick, i just included the first 8 steps as an ImageMagick install guide)

rpms (in order)
    libxml2-2.2.9-1.i386.rpm
    libxml2-devel-2.2.9-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.0.3-5.i386.rpm
    qt-2.2.3-1.i386.rpm
    qt-devel-2.2.3-1.i386.rpm
libtiff-3.5.5-7.i386.rpm
libungif-4.1.0-7.i386.rpm
Imagemagick-5.2.7-2.i386.rpm

for those of you who need Imagemagick but not for ezpublish, I believe you can ignore the indented rpms

all rpms were obtained at http://rpmfind.net

[Patrick]

Hello,

I'm not sure if any of you are still following this thread, but I'm interested in setting up a web site using a 'content management' system on my SME V5 server.

To that end I'm wondering if any of you have more input on the current choices or follow up's to your earlier posts back in October of 2001?  I would very much appreciate any tips or advice you could give on which CMS is the easiest to set up and administer on SME while still providing good performance and features.  Thanks.

Regards,
Patrick