[KLUG Members] CMS Systems

[Greg Mason]

I think what you should look into is Drupal. www.drupal.org

www.thisweekintech.com uses it, as well as spreadfirefox.com

Pretty easy to setup. It's PHP, uses MySQL.

Drupal does all of what you need, plus the ability to host forums.

I'm JUST starting to use it, so don't take my word for it, but so  
far, so good...

-Greg

On Aug 2, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> <aside>Is saying "Systems" after "CMS" [Content Management Systems]  
> redundant?
> It has always bothered me to say "RDMBS Systems" (again the "S" is  
> "System")
> but "RDBMSs" seems wrong and "RDBM Systems" also seems wrong.</aside>
>
> I need to put up a website to facilitate some things but I want to  
> spend close
> to zero time doing it (the website isn't the point, the information  
> is).  So
> I'm shopping around looking at the dizzying number of web CMS  
> systems on
> Freshmeat.  I looked especially at x-oops because that one was  
> presented on at
> a KLUG meeting by our own Mr. McGovern.  It seems to do 99.44% of  
> what I need:
> articles, news, files, etc... maybe an occasional survey just for  
> kicks.
>
> But I figured I'd ask the esteemed KLUG members@ list if anyone  
> here has any
> thoughts, recommendations, horror stories.
>
> My requirements:
> 1. I don't care what-so-ever what database it uses, since this will  
> sit all
> alo1ne on its own box.
> 2. It has to support an external authenticator, at least LDAP, but  
> it would be
> best if I could plug in my own (via JASSO in Java, or an assembly  
> in .NET, or
> just overloading a class in PHP;  I don't much care about the 'how'  
> so long as
> it doesn't involved hacking the core of a package so my changes get  
> whacked by
> any upgrade).
> 3. A solution in JAVA (Tomcat), PHP, or C# is fine.  Just because I  
> know these
> three and they tend not to blow up on me when some obscure assembly  
> in some
> distant dependency gets updated/modified.
> 4. Work on Apache/LINUX (of course).
> 5. Have some mechanism for adding
> modules/components/{whatever-you-want-to-call-them} as I'll need  
> just two or
> three 'vertical' features.  I want to spend my time on these and  
> not all that
> other stuff.  Even something as simple as a way to embed a URL via  
> an IFRAME
> and pass a list of parameters out of the CMS is fine (like  
> OpenGroupware's
> template system,  if you have had the distinct pleasure of working  
> with that).
>
> Adam Tauno Williams
> Network & Systems Administrator
> Morrison Industries
> Grand Rapids, Mi. USA