I have been meaning to start such a thread for a while... The idea is to keep an eye on the market, see what new stuff is coming up and how we compare to other systems (always good to know, either to benchmark areas where we can improve and know where we have an edge).
Let’s start with a php5 CMF which I didn’t know existed and seems to be playing on the same grounds MODx is playing (still have to test it...). Discovered it while googling for php5 CMFs...
AWF is a modern Open Source Content Management System and development framework based on PHP 5 and the Smarty template engine. It features support for multiple Web sites and languages, content versioning, caching, basic staging, community-portal functions (online list, forums, instant messages, newsletters, weblogs, wiki,...), image upload and galleries, a lexicon, a modular full-text search engine, an auto repair function for database tables, XML and PDF export as well as RSS and LDAP support. Fully flexible URLs allow the replacement of existing static Web sites.
* Multi-Site and Multi-Language support
* Changes can be made on a preview site and published at a later time on the live site
* Content versioning
* LDAP support for user authorization and retrieving of user profiles
* Built-in Wiki engine with a powerful and extensible syntax (PEAR::Text_Wiki)
* Fully flexible URLs, which allow existing static Web sites to be replaced
* Very fast caching, which means very good performance even on old servers
* Link management (central database for external links)
* User and Group Management
* Users can be exported in various formats, like HTML, CVS and XML
* Includes a logfile analyzer
* Designed for PHP 5, that means most of the code is object-oriented and quite fast
* Based on open standards for PHP development like the Smarty template engine
* Includes Spaw WYSIWYG Editor (1.1 RC1)
* Flexible permissions system
* Community Portal functions (online list, forums, instant messages, newsletters, weblogs, wiki,...)
* Image upload, browser and galleries (Digital Asset Management)
* RSS support
* XML and PDF export for all documents
* Content Integration using RSS, AWF-XML and Mediawiki as sources (more to come)
* Validated XHTML templates
* Integrated category and license management
* Auto repair function for database tables
As you can see, some interresting features there, but Yet Another Smarty Template system, and PEAR::DB now that’s less sexy... so is the admin, grayish and a bit old fashionned. I’ll give this a test run and keep tabs on this one... Any other CMF you think of that could get into a Watchlist ?
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I think RoR will be Tattoo’s target, really... and possibly the 1.0 branch’s target, but we’re not yet as flexible as RoR with 0.9.2.1... CodeIgniter is more in the same league.
About Plone : I wouldn’t have thought of it, but then again I am not a big fan of Zope... Thanks Carsten for your input !
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