Hi
I am looking for a CMS system that is perhaps a bit more sophisticated
that most.

Amongst the main thing it needs to be able to do is:

Create custom site structure with ability to delegate administrative
rights to each "section" to other people who can create and manage the
structure within their section.

Work with PHP/MySQL combo.
Not interested in systems where have to install additional components or
application servers eg Zope,

Not too interested in the bulletin board type approach that seems to be
the strategy of the ones I have looked at so far.

I have looked at postnuke, but unless I was missing something it seemed
to have one basic structure and work on a bulletin board approach. Also
tried egroupware but couldn't get it to work (pages would not display,
browser attempted to save them instead).

Any suggestions?

Regards

Leigh Silvester

Leigh Silvester wrote:
Last time I looked the best thing available that ran on PHP was
http://ez.no/ however when I tried it it was a bit of a resource hog and
a real headache to install. That was a few years ago so things might be
different now.

Any particular reason?

In article <dqm1ls$72l$1@news.freedom2surf.net>,
tinnedmeat@doilywood.org.uk says...
Installation is straightforward (no idea what it was like in the past)
as long as you can
a) unzip the distribution file on the server and not have to upload the
files individually, and
b) you can set the permissions on files and directories.

Also straightforward to create a new look/design package:
<http://ez.no/community/articles/buil...uts_with_ez_pu
blish>

The control of what users can do is excellent (assigning rights to
specific sections or content types); it's simple to create new types of
user and assign roles to individual users or user groups.

It's also nice that it doesn't use tables for any of the layout (unlike
for example Mambo, where tables are deeply embedded and almost
impossible to remove). Users have compared it favourably to the
(incredibly expensive, but somewhat clunky) commercial package used for
their main site.

All of the above referes to 3.6.4, but I understand that 3.7 is
identical, just re-coded to work with PHP4.4.

The online editor (which you need to pay for) is pretty good too. At
least in my experience complete web numpties have been able to add/edit
content with no problems. I believe there is also a free editor
extension, based on fckeditor:
<http://ez.no/community/contribs/applications/fckeditor_integration>

--
Pete Gray

The Curator's Egg
<http://www.redbadge.co.uk/egg/>

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:32:49 +0000, Leigh Silvester
<leigh.silvester@breathemail.net> wrote:

www.websitebaker.com
www.websitebaker.com
www.websitebaker.com

Did I mention www.websitebaker.com ?



--
Jurgen Nijhuis
http://www.argosmedia.nl

Doesn't install with my current version of PHP (4.2.2).
No plans to move to newer version at the moment.

Regards Leigh

While this does look close to what I am after the install fails,
possibly because I have the warnings level too high.

This server has all errors and notices displayed - this forces me and
other to code to highest standards. I am always nervous of any
applications that don't work properly under these conditions.

Thank you for suggestions though.

A colleague is currently evaluating postnuke (again), free wps, joomla
and some others

regards Leigh

Leigh Silvester wrote:

That's a strange approach if you don't mind my saying ;-)

There have been some quite important bugs fixed between then and now.

Even Debian sta(b)le has 4.3.10!

There are a number of us working on a large project with an extremely
tight deadline and the idea of taking a few hours out to install a newer
version of PHP and make sure it has all the right components built
into it and test everything can't be countenanced at this moment.

In addition there is an important application in daily use by several
hundred people and I would have to plan down time for this.

The CMS thing is a side issue that I am dumping on the server for some
one else to play with.

Of course it would make sense to move to the latest PHP version but that
can wait.

Hopefuly this makes a bit more sense.

Regards Leigh

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:20:07 +0000, Leigh Silvester
<leigh.silvester@breathemail.net> wrote:

You can set the error reporting level from the admin if you don't want
them displayed. But if the install fails that's not a good start I
admit. You could ask help in the forums though, the support and
community is great. I'm sure you'll get it working.

I have evaluated ALL free cms's out there, and many commercial ones as
well. I always return to websitebaker. It's really a great, very user
friendly cms and you won't regret using it.

--
Jurgen Nijhuis
http://www.argosmedia.nl