PHP-Fusion

PHP-Fusion version 7 is a licensed under AGPL (old versions were under the GPL), continuously developed free content management system based on PHP and uses MySQL as the database. The current version includes, among others, a news and article management, forums, shoutbox, and survey options. They started the project by Nick Jones, who published the first version on April 12, 2003.

Requirements

For the proper use of PHP-Fusion is a web server with Apache and PHP 1.3x/2.x requires 4 ( 4.1.0 or later). Since PHP-Fusion v7.00.06 PHP 5.3 is also supported. To use the Photo Gallery GD library must be installed. The later users do not need any in-depth knowledge, as the WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE is integrated and BB codes can be used.

Versions

Version 6

The latest version of v6er series of CMS is the v6.01.19. Version 6 was replaced by the version 7. No further updates except any security updates are provided more for the v6. Since the final version of v7.01 on August 1, 2010 v6er series of CMS is no longer supported by the British development team.

Version 7

PHP-Fusion v7 version is available since 11 August 2008 in the Final. This was followed with 7:01 (1 August 2010) and 7:02 ( 19 April 2011) two further developments.

In the v7 development line found many new collection such as:

Version 8

PHP Fusion v8 is currently in development.

Security

Due to the increasing popularity of PHP-Fusion CMS system has been a popular target for attacks. The case emerged attack types were limited so far to SQL injection and XSS attacks. However, these were not possible by PHP-Fusion itself, but mostly by unsafe extensions / mods by third parties, in most cases. While in the v6 were relatively many security holes, got the v7 development of the safety of the CMS increased priority, although in the current version ( 7:02:05 ) security flaws were discovered and an update is recommended to 7:02:06.

Add-on modules

PHP-Fusion can modules called infusions, be expanded and thus adds new features. While the core files of the CMS are not changed by these infusions, so these extensions remain functional when updating PHP-Fusion.

Themes

PHP-Fusion used for the representation of a presentation template system. With the template system, it is possible to give each user a different layout without changing the content. The user can choose himself in his profile settings to another layout if other layouts are enabled by the administrator. Even create your own unique theme is possible.

Features

  • Member system
  • News system
  • Article System
  • FAQ system
  • Download System
  • Forum
  • Gallery
  • Contact
  • Custom Pages
  • Fast and easy to use Administration
  • Infusions ( plug-ins ) and Themes (Designs)
  • Shoutbox
  • User Groups

Criticism

On the technical side, PHP-Fusion some shortcomings. In part, lack of comments in the source code as well as a lack of tutorial, but this was already made ​​up on the Official German support site.

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