CMS Made Simple
CMS Made Simple (short CMSMS ) is a free content management system (CMS) for small to medium sized websites, which was programmed in the server-side scripting language PHP and uses MySQL as a database that is integrated via a modified version of the database layer ADOdb Lite. For the design of the layout of the template engine Smarty is employed.
CMS Made Simple can be customized by different extensions for specific uses. The available extensions cover a large part of applications such as news, calendar, guestbook, picture gallery and more. The backend is currently in 44 languages.
At the annual Packt Publishing Award of the British print-on -demand publisher Packt CMSMS 2010 won in the category " Open Source Content Management Systems" the first place.
Use
CMS Made Simple provides average demands on the performance and configurability of the server used. His name ( "CMS made simple " ) carries it with a low compared to other CMS learning curve into account, a website is created within a few hours.
Although there is no support from a manufacturer such as in commercial products, but only a few questions remain unanswered in the forum due to an active user and developer community.
Operation
CMS Made Simple made possible by its intuitive operation, (such as for individuals, families and clubs ) to create smaller websites, but is also powerful enough to implement complex websites for businesses.
By default CMS Made Simple via a user administration, a group based authorization system, file and image management as well as a news module. Can be automatically generated every imaginable menu via a menu manager. The entered via an ajar to popular word processing WYSIWYG interface content can be hierarchically sort in unlimited depth. By default, the MicroTiny, a light version of the TinyMCE editor included. Other editors can be downloaded as a module.
The templates can be written based on free cascading style sheets or tables in XHTML. Thus, the sites can be very flexible and customize virtually barrier-free (depending on the experience of the designer ). Both the templates and style sheets are stored in the database.
CMS Made Simple is indeed often used for Web pages with more static content, but can also be adapted for intranet or blog pages.
In addition, CMS Made Simple is able to search engine friendly URLs (Pretty URLs ) or greater.
Development
The project was on 1 July 2004, initiated by the American Ted Kulp, a native to the vicinity of Philadelphia / USA programmer, when he sought a suitable CMS for the Music Player Daemon. However, the program quickly became a stand-alone open source project with a large community of users and developers. Since 2007 he is supported in his work as chief developer by the Canadian Robert Campbell.
Since version 0.8 the versions is available in addition to your version number of a South Pacific island name as the version name.
On 10 September 2006, the final version 1.0 was released.
Extensions
CMS Made Simple can be extended by modules, tags, Smarty tags and custom tags. Popular extensions are
- News ( Nachrichten-/Artikelsystem )
- Guest Book ( book )
- Gallery ( Gallery )
- Form Builder (System for creating and displaying of forms )
- CGCalendar ( calendar system )
- Frontend user ( system for managing front-end users )
- Cataloger (catalog system)
- Newsletter Made Simple ( system for sending newsletters )
CMSMS but also has its own programming interface ( API) and can be easily extended. For a quick start, we recommend the Skeleton modules and module makers. While the source of the former, the basic structure of modules is discussed in detail, the modules Maker creates a time-saving module body.
Requirements
CMS Made Simple has been tested on various platforms and versions. The minimum requirements are as follows:
- Linux / Unix, Windows or Mac OS X 2000/XP/ME/2003/7/8
- Apache HTTP Server 1.3 / 2, Lighttpd 1 , Microsoft IIS 5 or Sun Webserver7
- MySQL 4.1
- PHP 5.3.2 with Tokenizer Support enabled
CMS Made Simple is thus a typical LAMP project.