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Who wants phpWebSite, who does not?

phpWebSite is a web content management system. Like hundreds of others. It is php-based and MySQL?. Like most others. It is a derivate of phpNuke. Like there are a lot of others. And it`s BETA-Software.

Usually, you wouldn`t want to use BETA-Software on a productive site. Then again, there are quite a few people who do so any way. Like me. But how comes?

What phpWebSite CAN do

• Easy to set up
• One single interface for everything
• Everyone sees the same, from super user down to anonymous user
• Right-management (per-group, per-user)
• Module-handling (write your own content-containers)
• easy to use Database-interface, template engine, translation
• Show Photoalbums, Announcements and a calendar out of the box
• Third-party applications like Multi-paged Text (Article Manager) or a Wiki (like this one) available
• powerful theme concept (CSS files, templates and even php-support on a per-theme basis)

What phpWebSite CANNOT do

• No fool-proof content-input, no WYSIWYG editor out of the box
• No content syndication, RSS-support, at least no robust one.
• No hack/patch management, like others have
• No AJAX support
• No built-in content-versioning or built-in multi-language content support
• Not XHTML compilant (even though it claims it is, not even the official homepage validates!)
• No web-based template / theme editor
• code hard to understand
• rough edges

Last modified 2005-10-17 20:31 by rck