An Overview of PHP Content Management

The PHP Content Management solutions provide an open source content management system developed based on open source software such as PHP. Applications of the PHP Content Management solutions provide a powerful blend of features to suit the business needs of most of the organizations. The PHP Content Management applications are designed in such a way that it supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to the large community-driven websites.

The PHP Content Management application provides a unique collaborative book feature that lets you setup a project or book that needs to be written and then authorize other individuals to contribute content. The modules of the PHP Content Management application provide functionalities such as taxonomy display, jabber authentication, private messages, bookmarks, etc. The source code of the PHP Content Management application is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). Unlike proprietary blogging or content management systems, the feature set of the PHP Content Management application is fully available to extend or customize as needed. The PHP Content Management provides a robust personalization environment which enables both the content and the presentation to be individualized based on user-defined preferences. The PHP Content Management application provides a role based permission system which enables you to assign permissions to roles and then group like users into a role group instead of performing the tedious task of setting up permissions for each user. Content search is made simpler by the PHP Content Management application, as all the content is fully indexed.

The PHP Content Management application provides efficient user authentication, as the users can register and authenticate locally or use an external authentication source for the purpose. The PHP Content Management application can integrate with a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol server, for use on an intranet. Some of the content management features of the PHP Content Management application include creating polls, templating, threaded comments, and version control.

A poll module of the PHP Content Management application enables admins and/or users to create polls and show them on various web pages. The theme system of the PHP Content Management application separated content from presentation, which allows you to control the look and feel of your website. As templates are created from standard HTML and PHP coding, there is no need to learn any proprietary templating language. A powerful threaded comment model of the PHP Content Management application enables discussion on published content. Comments are hierarchial as in a newsgroup or forum. The version control system of the PHP Content Management application tracks the details of content updates. The details include the name of the user who changed the content, what content was changed, the date and time of changes made to the content, etc. In addition, the version control system provides an option to keep a comment log and enables you to roll-back to the content of an earlier version.

The PHP Content Management application supports multiple platforms such as Apache or IIS, Unix / Linux / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X . Regarding databases, the PHP Content Management application is built on top of a database abstraction layer that enables you to use this application with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. The PHP Content Management application provides a full framework to create a multi-lingual website, blog, content management system or community application. You can translate all the text using a graphical user interface, by importing existing translations, or by integrating with other translation tools such as the GNU gettext.

The PHP Content Management application can print browser-based reports with information about referrals, content popularity and how visitors navigate your site. The PHP Content Management application enables efficient logging and reporting, as all the important activities and system events are captured in an event log which will be reviewed by an administrator later. As the PHP Content Management application can be administered entirely using a web browser, access to the application is made simpler and the need for additional software is avoided. The caching mechanism of the PHP Content Management application eliminates the database queries which results in increased performance and reduced server load.

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