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The Top Five Content Management Systems and How They Work
A content management system, or CMS, is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage a website. They also take care of the following tasks:
Advantages:
The following are the top five open source CMS:
Joomla Joomla is one of the most powerful content management systems that is freely available and supported by a large online community. Developed with PHP using the MySQL database, Joomla is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. Joomla runs on different platforms such as Linux, FreeBSD, MacOSX server, Solaris and AIX. It allows extensions and integrations such as plug-ins and components to be integrated easily, thereby providing new functionality. This section contains the following topics:
Features
Structure
Modules Modules are pieces of functionality such as a Login box, or a Poll, or a Search box. You can even create a module with your own text, or you can install custom written modules. Content You can categorize the content into sections and categories in Joomla:
For example, if you are having a Joomla website about cars, you will have the sections 'Ford', 'Chevy' and 'Dodge'. The 'Ford' section will have categories 'Mustang', 'Thunderbird' and 'Taurus'. The 'Mustang' category will have content items 'V6GT', 'Steeda Q' and 'Shelby Cobra GT500'. The entire structure is much like a tree:
Menus A menu item can point to a section, a category, or directly to an item. Operation The content and all other information related to the site is usually stored in the relational database system. Most systems provide controlled access for various ranks of users such as administrators, copy editors, senior editors, and content creators. Access is usually via a web browser program, possibly combined with some use of FTP for uploading content. The themes take care of the display of every page of the web site, controlling properties such as the colors and the fonts. See: For more informatio, log onto www.jhomla.org Drupal Drupal is a free open source content management system written in the programming language PHP. It requires database package such as MySQL or PostgresSQL to store content and settings. Drupal is able to run on different platforms, provided the system can run on the two web servers, Apache or IIS. This section contains the following topics:
Features The features that make Drupal unique are:
Structure The three main building blocks of Drupal are:
Core Drupal has a basic layer, or “core” which provides essential features and supports pluggable modules that add additional functionality. Modules People with knowledge of PHP can write their own modules to implement additional features. The Modules included in the Drupal’s core enable users to:
Themes Drupal uses the PHPTemplate engine or the XTemplate engine to create Themes. Operation The content and all other information related to the site is usually stored in the relational database system. Most systems provide controlled access for various ranks of users such as administrators, copy editors, senior editors, and content creators. Access is usually via a web browser program, possibly combined with some use of FTP for uploading content. The themes take care of the display of every page of the web site, controlling properties such as the colors and the fonts. See: For more information, log onto www.drupal.org XOOPS XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. It is a free content management system, written in PHP, for websites. XOOPS uses MySQL to store data required for running a web-based content management system. Its modular architecture allows users to customize, update and theme their websites. This section contains the following topics:
Features The features that make XOOPS unique are:
Structure The three main building blocks of XOOPS are:
Core XOOPS has a basic layer, or “core” which is actually a package of inter related PHP files. It provides essential features and supports pluggable modules that add additional functionality. Modules Modules hold the actual content. You can use the module administration system to install, uninstall, activate, and deactivate them. Themes XOOPS uses the Smarty templating engine, which allows many benefits such as easier separation between business logic and presentation logic as well as content caching. Operation The content and all other information related to the site is usually stored in the relational database system. Most systems provide controlled access for various ranks of users such as administrators, copy editors, senior editors, and content creators. Access is usually via a web browser program, possibly combined with some use of FTP for uploading content. The themes take care of the display of every page of the web site, controlling properties such as the colors and the fonts. See: For more information, log onto www.xoops.org Plone Plone is a free open-source content management system built on top of the Zope application server and the Content Management Framework (CMF). Zope is a powerful open source web application server written in Python, developed by Zope Corporation. The CMF developed by Zope Corporation is an open source API for creating complex content management systems. Plone takes advantage of this and many other features to provide the user with a high-quality product. Plone sits above the CMF as an application running on top of Zope. Developing and extending Plone requires a thorough understanding of Zope and its object infrastructure. Plone is easy to set up, extremely flexible, and provides you with a system for managing web content that is ideal for project groups, communities, web sites, extranets and intranets. Plone runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and many other platforms. There is a multitude of add-on products for Plone to add new features and content types. This section contains the following topics:
Features The features that make Plone unique are:
Operation The content and all other information related to the site is usually stored in the relational database system. Most systems provide controlled access for various ranks of users such as administrators, copy editors, senior editors, and content creators. Access is usually via a web browser program, possibly combined with some use of FTP for uploading content. The themes take care of the display of every page of the web site, controlling properties such as the colors and the fonts. See: For more information, log onto www.plone.org e107 e107 is a content management system written in PHP and it uses MySQL database system for content storage. It is completely free, customizable and in constant development. This section contains the following topics:
Features The features that make e107 unique are:
Operation The content and all other information related to the site is usually stored in the relational database system. Most systems provide controlled access for various ranks of users such as administrators, copy editors, senior editors, and content creators. Access is usually via a web browser program, possibly combined with some use of FTP for uploading content. The themes take care of the display of every page of the web site, controlling properties such as the colors and the fonts. Chillibreeze's disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views of Chillibreeze as a company. Chillibreeze has a strict anti-plagiarism policy. Please contact us to report any copyright issues related to this article.
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