Open Source PHP Content Management

These Open Source PHP Content Management System(CMS) listed here are good and commonly used by many Web Publishers. A CMS enabled website has many benefits:

• People with average knowledge of word processing can create the content directly.
• Little or no HTML knowledge needed.
• Content is managed through a cycle of capture, storage, retrieval publication, presentation, versioning, and archiving.
• Users are assigned roles and permissions that prevent them from editing content which they have no rights.
• Publishing of content can be time-controlled, hidden for later use or require user login with password.

The following are commonly used Open Source PHP Content Management System(CMS)

1. Drupal - An advanced portal with collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, blogging, news aggregator.
2. Joomla! - Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. For great Joomla! Templates, check out TemplatePlazza.com
3. Mambo - A professional level yet easy to use Content Management System featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing users, links manager, statistics, content archiving, date based content, 20 languages, modules and components.
4. PHPNuke - One of the most popular community-based portals with a big choice of modules and languages. PHP-Nuke is a news automated system specially designed to be used in Intranets and Internet. The Administrator has total control of his web site, registered users, and he will have in the hand a powerful assembly of tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using databases.
5. PostNuke - A Content Management System with focus on flexibility and security. A big variety of modules and blocks makes this CMS an all round tool.
6. XOOPS - A Xoops is an extensible. OO(Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small, to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, weblogs and etc.

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