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CMS recommendation?

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 5:15 pm
by orayoflighto
I am looking for a content management system. I don't have a lot of experience with PHP, but I am starting to learn. Ideally I would love to write one myself so I could control everything, but I am getting a little overwhelmed so I hope to customize something instead. I am hoping to find something that fits the following requirements:

1. Search engine friendly URLs
2. mysql friendly
3. Fairly easy to customize. (I will be adding form fields and scripts to customize it to my need)
4. Support for multiple users.
5. Support for uploading data.

The project involves using google maps with custom icons (I already have this part). Each icon is going to have a link to a page with details about the place that the icon represents. This is where the CMS comes in. I want to manage all of the detail pages through a CMS.

If anyone has any suggestions that I could look at. it would be a great help

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:29 pm
by jayshields
I'm sure you could find something suitable via Google. I presume you've already tried that though? Joomla is quite a popular CMS, although I haven't tried it, it looks very good. I don't know if it's got SE friendly URLs though.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:09 am
by Christopher
I hear good things about Joomla and Drupal. You can also use blogs like Wordpress as a lightweight CMS.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:56 pm
by orayoflighto
Thanks for the responses. I did do a google search but I got a little overwhelmed with all of the offerings. I have done some more searching and I thought I would post my findings in case anyone else wants to reference this for the future.

Content Management Matrix

Wikipedia List

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:35 pm
by Ambush Commander
Based on your specifications, I would recommend Drupal. Quite extensible, very clean, new version just came out (shiny new Drupal 5) and has good multiuser support.

Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:18 am
by Hurreman
I'd recommend Drupal as well. After deciding to put my own framework/cms on hold, I downloaded Drupal last night, and I'm already loving it.
Writing modules couldn't be much easier, and the documentation is great.

Only downside I've seen is that many modules havn't yet been updated from 4.7 to 5.0.