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CMS Made Simple

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Development status
  
Active

Operating system
  
Platform-independent

Written in
  
PHP

CMS Made Simple

Developer(s)
  
Ted Kulp (Project Leader)

Stable release
  
2.1.6 / December 10, 2016; 2 months ago (2016-12-10)

Type
  
Content management system, Community

CMS Made Simple (CMSMS) is a free, open source (GPL) content management system (CMS) to provide developers, programmers and site owners a web-based development and administration area. In 2010 it won the Packt Publishing annual award for open source content management. Other systems with which they compared it include Drupal, WordPress, eZ Publish and Joomla!.

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Software Design

CMS Made Simple is an open source package, built using PHP with support for MySQL. Although PostgreSQL was previously supported, the developers chose to remove PostgreSQL support and recent versions no longer support any database except MySQL. The template system is driven using the Smarty Template Engine. CMS Made Simple aims to provide easy development and customization with themes, add-on modules, dynamic menus, tags and translations. When developing a new feature, the tab opens full of default text. The developer starts by erasing the bits he doesn't need, and then adding further tags that link to plugins, known here as modules. As it suggests you customise existing working markup code.

Features

CMS Made Simple has a web-based admin section for theme, template, and stylesheet development, installing and updating add-on modules, configuring page content blocks, and user groups and permissions.

Modules

CMS Made Simple itself is designed as a base package that does not impose unnecessary modules and functionality on the user. It requires that site owners add modules and tags appropriate to the site. A small number of core modules are included with the default installation, notably a news manager, search function, and WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE).

Plugins: add-on modules

  • Galleries
  • Guestbooks
  • Form Builders
  • Captchas
  • Company and User Directories
  • e-Commerce / shops
  • Calendars
  • Blogs
  • RSS

    • Numerous additional modules are available via the module repository or Module Manager

    In 2008 it lacked

  • Inventory management
  • Support for third-party payment processing mechanisms (such as PayPal)
  • Modules for shipping and sales tax calculators
  • Shopping cart functionality

    • which are available in Drupal, Joomla!, and Wordpress that are needed building an e-commerce site.

    Themes

    The internal template and stylesheet system allows for end-user theme creation, but others are available in a themes repository to download. Developers can choose the one that is closest to their wishes and customise further.

    Software Requirements

  • CMSMS 2.0 Requires a web server with PHP 5.4.11+ enabled. PHP 5.5+ is recommended.
  • PHAR support, putenv support and a working system temporary directory for the installation assistant.
  • CMSMS 1.7 through 1.12.x require a minimum of PHP 5.2.4 (5.2.12 recommended).
  • At least 16mb of available memory for PHP
  • PHP tokenizer support enabled
  • GD enabled for manipulating graphics files
  • MySQL 4.1+
  • Enough access to your server to upload files and change some permissions

    • Note: CMS Made Simple™ does not officially support PHP safe mode

    Support

    Support for CMS Made Simple includes the content installed by default, built-in help, online docs, commercial/paid support, and a community.

    CMS Made Simple holds an annual meeting for its enthusiasts known as The Geek Moot where how-to seminars and Q&A discussions are held.

    History

  • Oct, 2009 - Three Quarters of a Million Downloads Reached
  • Aug, 2010 - CMS Made Simple Reaches One Million Downloads

    • References

    CMS Made Simple Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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