[thelist] CMS suggestions needed - Stay Nuke Free!

[gabbie]

any thoughts on Mambo??? :o) lt's one that l've been playing around with
recently, l don't know enough about code to evaluate it, but would
appreciate some opinions.

Gabbie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stuart Young" <syoung at unitec.ac.nz>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] CMS suggestions needed - Stay Nuke Free!


merlene said:

> I've never really used cms but I know there are several such as
> php-nuke, etc.
> Any suggestions would be welcome!

Stay away from the Nukes - the code is terrible - they are basically a
cobbled togther mess of bits built on bits that are very time-consuming to
hack and you keep coming up against things that you can't change. For
example the code mixes layout/presentation with logic, there is no
commenting or documentation of the code, no consistency in coding approach,
and it outputs VERY invalid HTML.

Another vote for Drupal from me. I like Drupal because:
* you have complete control over the structure/IA of the site by editing the
taxonomy. PHP-Nuke for example, a article can only be in one topic and no
sub-topics are possible. In Drupal you can have any hierarchy/tree structure
you want with multiple levels of sub-sub-sub-topics, and a topic can be a
child of multiple parents.
* all sorts of content are supported, you can enable or disable: static
pages, news articles (i.e. Slash format), blogs, wikis, and books (a wiki
with multiple pages - can reorder the pages)
* it has workflow (content approval process) and revision history (can
revert back to previous versions of content)
* it has excellent roles/permissions management

You can try out all the open source PHP/MySQL CMS before you install at:
http://www.opensourcecms.com

or check out the international association for Open Source Content
Management:
http://www.oscom.org/
http://www.oscom.org/matrix/index.html

cheers

Dr Stuart Young,       +64 (0)9-815 4321 Ex 8656
<syoung at unitec.ac.nz>
Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Technology,
Unitec New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
http://hyperdisc.unitec.ac.nz/staff/syoung.htm
I would provide a URL for my official staffpage, but its too long and
complex

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