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[EPAUL]

Mitch, thanks for your comments below! Have you tryed out tikiwiki
(tikiwiki.org), and if so, what's your 2 cents on it?

I am also looking for some feedback on xaraya and the *nukes type CMSs
Any info will be appreciated!

Evan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mitch Pirtle" <mitchy at spacemonkeylabs.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Mambo users?


> EPAUL wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I am looking into several types of CMS myself. I am interested in knowing
> >how many people from this list are using or have used CMSs and which ones
> >you like or dislike.
> >
> The easiest CMS I have ever worked with (from the front-end perspective)
> was Plone, which unfortunately was a huge beast and required running
> Zope as well.
>
> The best I could find in the PHP world was Mambo, which I am helping
> migrate to database independence because I want to use PostgreSQL, and
> am annoyed at folks telling me I have to use MySQL or risk not being one
> of the kewl kids.  I tried maybe twenty others in a week's time, and all
> either had poor administration, difficult-to-impossible installation, or
> significant bugs er, features.
>
> <salespitch>
>
> The things that I find unique with Mambo is a super light distribution,
> simple install, awesome administration interface, and an established
> community providing add-on modules and templates (both free and
> commercial).  The latest few releases added some excellent performance
> increases, so Mambo portals are very snappy.  Also interesting to note
> is different content types (or views of content, if you will) - you can
> group your content as articles, blog-style, or whatever you want.  The
> code is very easy to work with, and is all OO-based.  So you can jump in
> and make any changes that you want.
>
> (As a new initiate into serious OO usage in PHP4, this has been an
> excellent learning experience for me as well.)
>
> The next major release is going to really do amazing things, and will
> raise everyone's expectations about what an open source CMS should be
> capable of.
>
> </salespitch>
>
> http://www.opensourcecms.com/ will give you the chance to test drive
> many CMS before a single download.  Highly recommended.
>
> -- Mitch
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