[thelist] recommend a CMS system?

Ben Parizek ben.parizek at gmail.com
Wed May 28 08:23:37 CDT 2008


Not sure it meets all your needs but ExpressionEngine
(http://expressionengine.com/) may be worth a look.  It's not open
source but is a good price for non profits, well supported, and, to my
understanding, you can tweak the source code all you want if you know
PHP well enough.



On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all
>
> Recently we are working on a non-profit project that needs an
> information system for internal and external communication. I am looking
> for an opensource CMS system for this because we surely will add a lot
> of customization to it.
>
> Requirements are:
>
> publish news
>
>    better allow comments and RSS feed
>
> knowledge base
>
>    HTML-based, better with comment, rating and must be full-text
>    searchable, flexible permission so we can define users who can
>    submit questions or new article idea (or stub, using wikipedia term)
>    and who can modify, categorize and publish them.
>
> forum integration
>
>    including the possibility to put the hottest topics on the web for
>    users to access;
>
> prefer PHP over other programming languages
>
>    we are somewhat professional at PHP.
>
> high quality of program logic / presentation separation
>
>    after it's done a HTML/CSS knowledgeable person will maintain it and
>    we try avoid her to have to modify javascript/php code in order to
>    achieve different look. Having good logic / presentation separation
>    also means it is easier themeable.
>
> ldap integration
>
>    would be fine to have. As we probably integrate new services on it.
>
> Public calendar feature
>
>    for events.
>
> I am looking through directories of existing CMS for evaluation and very
> much appreciate help from you if you are already experienced with some
> of such products.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
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