Re: Simple cms type system

On 10/06/2004, at 4:29 AM, Ryan A wrote:

Anyway, it seems that the client has a control panel where he can make changes to the site (nothing major, just add products, edit paragraphs etc...NO shopping cart) he wants the same kind of functionality for his new pages. Have not seen his "control panel" but I dont think its anything major. Instead of programming this from scratch was wondering if anybody can recomend any package/open source project etc that can do this, I'm sure this must have come up before with other clients...

My fav PHP-CMS is textpattern <http://www.textpattern.com>, but it's not quite ready for prime-time yet (for my needs - but it may be fine for yours). Everything follows a blog-like section > category > article metaphor, but it can be used for a lot more than blogs. This model could quite easily be bent into shape for products, static pages, etc as you need. It's opensource, has a great support forum/community, and comes with goodies like Textile <http://textism.com/tools/textile/> (an ASCI shorthand HTML), templating, CSS-GUI and a lot more built in. My knee-jerk reaction though is that the simplest way out of this would be to build your own (that way you get want, without any dependancies on anything but your own skills).

Searched google/phpresource/hot scripts/ script archive.... but most cms's are offering far far too much for my needs, and actually stripping them down would take as much as making a new one and some are just not worth it (in mho).

As mentioned here many times, http://www.opensourcecommerce.com/ let's you try a bunch of them for free on the web before downloading/installing. --- Justin French http://indent.com.au