Possible CMS suggestions

Jinto

Joined: 2005-04-14
Posts: 21
Posted: Wed, 2006-06-21 22:55

Greetings everyone,

Figure i'll ask this question to the awesome community of gallery2, since you guys are always helpful when I needed it.

I've been toying with the idea of finally using a CMS. But even after comparing them it's so hard to just pick one, typo3 seems to be the best choice for possible for future usage and growth. I've heard thou it hard to work with for a newbie to CMSes and/or stupid people who just don't get it like me.

Here is a small list of what i'm looking for maybe someone can suggest something else or say hey yea typo3 is worth it etc. haha

Opensource or GNU
Apache / Linux

Major Features I want:
New posting - New content added and just news about my hobby

User management* - Have various levels of users, like windows or permissions. IE: Give so many users the right to post/edit/delete information on a section of the site like a calendar

Template Driven - Looking to be able to keep my current design or make a newer one but have complete control what my site looks like. Not like using Themes on some of the CMS

Article Posting* - This one is tough to describe and has 2 parts:

Part 1: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/index.php
This site has a nice series information listing where the 1 movie has 2 different titles and each of them list the same content as well as link back to each other.

Part 2: Lets say I have 2 articles to post, one about car repair and one about drawing folwers. I'd like to have them listed like a links script where there would be 2 categories IE Cars and Drawing and then under those categories the the articles posted with a brief description. Something like a FAQ type as well.

Module Based - Most are now, but this is not a nesscary feature but nice to have for future addons etc.

Audit - Another feature that isn't super important but nice to have. I'd like to know who posted what and when.

Problem Link - Be nice to have a link on pages report an error and have it emailed to the manager of that section. Again not must have but be nice.

WYSIWYG Editor - This would be nice since I want it to be fully templated.

Easy Back Up - If possible a way to back up the content and/or users and their permissions.

Trash Can - Be nice to have a trash can just in case someone deletes all sorts of stuff and I can reclaim them.

* - A must have for the CMS

Minor Features or Add-ons That'd be nice to have:
(but not nesscary, just like to have)
Blogs
Calendar / Events calendar
Site Private message system
Polls
Newsletter
RSS Content
Affilate Banner/tracking
Shopping cart

Any other extra things like this would be nice.

Intergration - Currently I'm using the following scripts and would like to intergrate them into the new CMS

Links - http://www.nicecoder.com/idx_main.php

Gallery2 - http://gallery.menalto.com/

phpBB - http://www.phpbb.com/

Lastly - CMS has to be currently updating, have a good community to help me with fixes or addons or whatever I might need.

Thanks to all who read this.

 
suprsidr
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Joined: 2005-04-17
Posts: 8339
Posted: Thu, 2006-06-22 02:10

Geeklog has all that, and its easy to edit themes to your liking.
But I may be baised.

-s

 
benduffin

Joined: 2006-12-01
Posts: 1
Posted: Fri, 2006-12-01 16:53

unisupUK is developing the answer - a complete Scalable CMS / Cart & Classifieds project on a PHP/ MySQL backbone.

It will have fully customizable layouts and templates, and is being built with simplicity in mind - not everyone is a techno-head!

To make your suggestion, or simply to have your say go to:

http://www.unisupuk.com/yabb

All contributers will recieve a FREE copy!

 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Mon, 2006-12-04 15:33

for every commercial suggestion we'll have to name perfect free solutions:

- www.drupal.org
- www.joomla.com
- www.xaraya.com
- www.typo3.net
- www.ez.no
- plone, ...

you can them and others at www.opensourcecms.com
also see: www.cmsmatrix.org