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Looking For Artistic Community CMS

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 12:19 pm
by echo101
I am wanting to setup a community based CMS sort of like deviantart.com but nowhere near as ambitious as that.

I am looking for a nice pre-built PHP based system with news, image galleries, journals/blogs, stories/poetry, commenting for everything, user profiles, a links database for each user so they can link to stuff and give a small description of what it is they are linking to, latest posts and additions on the front page, maybe an mp3 collection tool for small collections of mp3's (or at least a files section), a listing of all the content posting users (see below for more info on what I mean), and forums. Some of the back-end features I would like are auto-created thumbnails for the galleries using GD (imagemagick is not an option), browser based uploads, browser based editing for everything, easy to customize appearance, and theme support would be nice. I prefer a flat file based system for as much as possible but MySQL is available.

One of the catches is that I would like to have complete access over what each user can do since I only want certain people generating content while other people can comment on said content and post in forums only. The idea behind the site is a place for my friends and family (many of whom are artistic in nature) to share their creations without having to go to the trouble of learning how to build a real web site (I am quickly getting overwhelmed trying to build and maintain web sites for them).

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 12:25 pm
by jason
You might consider looking at drupal @ http://www.drupal.org

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 4:08 pm
by echo101
That is the best I have tried out myself so far but not quite *the one*. I alway run into this problem and normally have to create my own but this is a bit over my head.