choosing cms

[bubach]

hello, i would like your ideas about which cms i should use for the BOS homepage, as i have to little spare time programming php..

the first thing that came to my mind was phpNUKE, but it seems to cost money.
i want one with much activity, moduels, xhtml support (not only validates, but nice non table coding).. any ideas?

i found these:
http://www.xoops.org/
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

soemone here that have any experience with these (or other) cms:es and can recommend one?

/ Christoffer

[Candy]

invalidsoftware.net (C++ os development) runs on xoops, it kind of sucks (imo) but they think it's nice. At least, it is not entirely nice to people using tabbed browsing (although I consider the error to be on Firefox's side, yet it annoys me).

[whyme_t]

invalidsoftware.net (C++ os development) runs on xoops, it kind of sucks (imo) but they think it's nice.

Yeah, it sucks I don't like it either, but alas, no time or effort to change it for now.

I have found http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php more usefull as a CMS...although I'm not sure this is the kind of CMS you are looking for bubach.

[AGI1122]

Not sure how good it is since I havn't tried it... but it's seem really popular around the SMF forums(the people that created this forum your using right now). http://mamboforge.net/

[Solar]

I used Postnuke (http://www.postnuke.com) for the Pro-POS website; it's a PhpNuke spin-off which, last time I looked, was free.

However, administering the thing ate so much of my time, that I partially blame it for the failure of the project.

Today, I'm a firm believer in using a Wiki for just about everything. You get to focus more on what's in there. A forum, in my experience, leads to lots of talk and little work done.

[bubach]

First of all, thanks for your replys.

Candy: invalidsoftware.net must be one of the ugliest and worst sites i seen i a couple of months..
you can?t even do **** without membership.

whyme_t: It looks kind of nice. Good to see a cms that has a decent frontpage (not as messy as others). I?ll check it out. By the way, why do you think that might not suit me?

Chris Cromer: Hard to find any real info on the CMS from their site, but i?ll check it out.

Any more ideas? In the meantime i?ll check out the ones you proposed, and http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ which is a CMS comparison site..

[EDIT] I did a search on http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ for a couple of features, and it seems like postNuke has most of them. The question is, will the same thing happen to me as for Solar? ???

/ Christoffer

[distantvoices]

Hehe - I am using a self coded cms to administer the pages of my own web - it is a bit inflexible but it works to my satisfaction.

I wouldn't incorporate full editable wiki, because of those damned spammers who think destroying is the holy grail of life.

and no, no forum for blueillusionos. Here, we can talk enough. *gg* I have also ripped the guest book for a. I ve got spam, and b. I ve got queer entries I don't have any interest for.

*shrugs* I usually leave the talking to others and do my part in silence.

OT @solar: have looked into your pdclib. *smirk* As a library for my *applications* I would use it - if I could take the Time for a *real close* lookup and some applying of datatypes (I use different names in my own library) - I 'd definitely use it, but for now, I'll stick with what I have - Life currently has other priorities, you know what I mean. But it is well documented and structure is pretty ok. I reckon you've followed public available standards.

[mystran]

I'm using an offline CMS for my own site, that works like this:

I write each page into a file using a Wiki-like markup. Then I run make. Make first builds html files from the markup files and a template, using my homebuilt ruby-script. Then it uploads files to the server using scp. No need for server-side scripting. No need for manual operation. There's an additional script for blogging.

Works otherwise fine, but can't handle inter-file dependencies that well. I'm thinking of writing a better (possibly GUI) tool for the task. I don't want to run server-side stuff though, because then I'd need a server that allows such things.