Content Management System

CMS (Content Management System), are increasingly popular and the most used of these is Wordpress which powers millions of blogs.

Other tools for general purpose sites are also increasingly being used.Examples include Drupal, Joomla, Xoops.

The role of a CMS is to automate the management of the tasks necessary to put articles online:

Choice of templates.
Editing the text and insert it into a template.
Organizing menus and categories.
Site administrering.
Automatic creation of RSS feeds and sitemap.
Tag cloud, calendar of archives and other gadgets.
Statistics of visits, by default or with an extension.
And inclusion of extensions for more services ...

Thus, the webmaster can concentrate fully on writing content while having a site looking professional.

This folder is designed to help to choose a tool in a too large list, to allow to understand how is built a CMS, and to provide scripts to automate services on a website.

A CMS popularity list provides a ranking of software based on the traffic of their website.

Building a Content Management System

A set of tutorials and scripts that demonstrate how to design all the parts of a CMS.

Building a CMS
Step by step tutorial of CMS building.
Wysiwyg editor
Demo of use of the FCK wysiwyg editor.
Dynamic menu
How to build a menu from pages when they are added...
Comments
Adding comments to your articles.
Authentication
Using and managing logins and passwords.
Using a template
Any CMS make use of a template for the static part of pages.
Register
Creating and managing an account.
Displaying the list of most recent posts
By using the RSS feed you can display automatically recents articles on each page of a website.

Content Management Tools

These tools are standalone software dedicated to management of web sites.

List of PHP CMS
Alphabetical list of all commonly used content management system with their purpose: portal, blog, wiki, etc.
Drupal.
Joomla.
Wordpress.
fluxBB.