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- Ariadne is a Web Application Server and Content Management System. written entirely in PHP. It has a rich user interface which includes wizards, pulldown menus, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor (MSIE 4+ only). Ariadne is available for free under the Gnu General Public License.
- ArtiVelocity is a Free Open Source Content Management System (GPL Licence) that enables you to create and manage your own web site.
- AIOCP is a professional all in one solution to completely manage a website through a userfriendly web-interface. AIOCP can be also used as a platform for building powerful internet solutions, ranging from e-commerce, portals, websites and intranets.
- Apache Lenya is an Open Source Java/XML Content Management System and comes with revision control, multi-site management, scheduling, search, WYSIWYG editors, and workflow.
- bcoos is content-community management system written in PHP-MySQL.
- Bitweaver is an open source content management system. Its speed and power are ideal for large-scale community websites and corporate applications, but it is simple enough for non-technical small site users to set up and administrate. It comes fully featured on install but is easy to extend.
- Caravel is a open source, enterprise-level Content Management System with an intuitive user interface, designed to allow non-technical users to maintain website content. Caravel allows admins to centrally maintain thousands of sites off one code-base.
- Clever Copy is a free, fully scalable web site portal and news posting system. You can run it as a very simple blog or ramp it up to a full Content Management System. It is easy to setup, use and maintain requiring no previous knowledge of web portals, blogs, php, Cms's or databases. It uses a self optomizing database meaning that it always runs as fast as possible and works extremely well in a high traffic environment. It has been designed with the following in mind - first time users, experienced users, long term users.
- CMS Made Simple provides a fast and easy way to create a web site and manage its contents.
- CMSimple is a simple flat file based, content management system; for the smart maintenance of small commercial or private sites.
- ContentNow is a small content management system based on php and mysql. using smarty template engine, adodb database framework, java scriptaculous utilities and others.
- Cofax is a Web-based text and multimedia content management system (CMS). It was designed to simplify the presentation of newspapers on the Web and to expedite real-time Web publication. Cofax, at it's core, is a framework of software modules and tools to manage and deliver news content from different sources. It was developed using Java, database, and XML technologies. It is easy to use and implement. Cofax is Open Source software. You can donwload it and use it without licence cost.
- The DBHcms is a small free Open Source content management system for personal and small business websites. It is search engine optimized, also for multiple languages simultaneously by allowing the search engine bot to index every single page in each language and avoding content cloning. DBHcms is 100% flexible but also simple and easy to use thanks to an integrated WYSIWYG editor, multiple language support and layout templates.
- doop is free and easy to use Content Management System(CMS), Website creation software. Basic features includes an internal page editor, administrative control panel and some addons for enhancing doop's features.
- Dragonfly CMS is a powerful, feature-rich, Open Source content management system which was based on PHP-Nuke 6.5 in the early "CPG-Nuke CMS" days. Subsequent development of Dragonfly CMS has paid close attention to security, efficiency and reliability.
- Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.
- e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It's completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.
- Eazy portal is the best solution allowing you to maintain your online community. It has been designed with the latest technologies using smarty, css and xhtml. It is administration friendly, easy to install and with a live support. Various content types are supported by it: own forum, custom pages, news, polls, downloads, mailing list, RSS feeds and contact page (a list of all features can be found on our website), as well as templates and language files. Portal is created in PHP, it uses mySQL database.
- Etomite is a Content Management System, which allows you to remotely administer your website from anywhere that you have an Internet Connection and a compatible Web-Browser. Etomite is OpenSource (GPL), which makes it free to use.
- Elxis CMS is a Free Open Source CMS released under the GNU/GPL license.
- Exponent is a website content management system (or CMS) that allows site owners to easily create and manage dynamic websites without necessarily directly coding web pages, or managing site navigation.
- eXV2 is a another free Content Management System.
- eZ Publish is an enterprise open source content management system and development framework with functionality for web publishing, intranets, e-commerce, extranets and portals.
- Flede is a free open source content management system. Flede provides flexible and powerfull mechanism to manage data with almost any structure in MySQL database, it supports user authorization with group-based access rights.
- Fundanemt is an open source CMS that aims at small and medium sized websites. The system is highly focused on usability.
- fuzzylime (cms) is the easiest way for you to run your site and keep it up-to-date. Once installed, you can update from any internet-connected PC in the world - you don't even need to know HTML
- Geeklog is a PHP/MySQL based application for managing dynamic web content.
- GuppY is easy, free and databaseless web portal, will allow you to generate very easily a complete and interactive web site.
- Jaws is a Framework and Content Management System for building dynamic web sites.
- JAF CMS is a Content Management System (CMS) consist of a powerful set of PHP scripts that allow you to maintain personal home page in an easy way. There is no need for a database.
- Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
- Jupiter is one of the most lightweight portal systems available and it`s open source, so anyone can contribute towards it.
- Lemon CMS is an simpe to use easy to install CMS with a clean interface. Installing Lemon CMS to an existing website or a new one is as easy as copying Lemon CMS into your website and modifing ONE config file to reflect your server settings. The CMS uses a flat-file based system making it simple to port into any website.
- Mambo is a full-featured content management system (CMS) that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
- Midgard CMS is an Open Source Content Management System built on top of the Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform.
- MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content.
- OpenPHPNuke (OPN) is an Open Source Web Content Management System (WCMS) which will assist you in the creation, administration, and maintenance of contents for the internet or intranet.
- OpenCms is a professional, easy to use website content management system. The fully browser based user interface features configurable editors for structured content with well defined fields.
- OneCMS is a gaming geared CMS that allows you to easy manage content, games with such features as its own forum software, custom fields, custom categories and more.
- Ovidentia is a open source content management system written with PHP and using a MySQL database.
- phpCMS is a content management system, which is characterized by simple system requirements, high performance, and, above all, flexibility. phpCMS is suitable for small, private websites, as well as complex, high traffic websites including the integration of web services and external applications.
- PHP-Nuke is a web based automated news publishing and content management system based on PHP and MySQL.
- pHNews is a portal/content management system written in PHP. It is designed to be as fast and easy to use as possible but very powerful at the same time.
- PHP-Fusion is a light-weight open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP.
- phpwcms is an Open Source web content management system released under the GNU General Public License. You can use it for free.
- phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system. Web-based administration allows for easy maintenance of interactive, community-driven web sites. phpWebSite is free, open source software and is licensed under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL.
- Pivot is a webbased tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use.
- Plone is a ready-to-run content management system that is built on the powerful and free Zope application server.
- Plume CMS is a fully functional Content Management System in PHP on top of MySQL. Including articles, news, file management and all of the general functionalities of a CMS.
- PostNuke is a a Flexible Open Source Content Management System (CMS). PostNuke is software that creates an impressive, dynamic web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.
- PROPS is an open, extensible Internet publishing system designed specifically for periodicals such as newspapers and magazines who want to publish online, either exclusively or as an extension of their print publication.
- Quick.Cms.Lite it's a simple tool for everyone. With this tool you will be able to add main pages, subpages, picture galleries, create offers, add new products and you can do it all in different languages.
- RunCMS is a content management system (CMS) ease of use, speed, & flexibility are the main development keypoints.
- SAPID is a tool for site creation and management. SAPID is distinguished through the comfortable Ajax-based site structure management interface and high flexibility of design, content and functionality integration. SAPID does not need DB (file-flat CMS).
- sNews is a completly free PHP and MySQL driven content management system for managing web content. Consisting of only one file, sNews is extremely lightweight, easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface.
- SilverStripe is a simple PHP open source Content Management System and framework, powerful enough for any Intranet or web application.
- Sitellite is an advanced content management system (CMS) written in the PHP programming language. Its features include access control, versioning, workflow, and more.
- SPIP is a Free and GPL license publishing system developed by the minirézo to manage the site uZine.
- Templeet is an open-source project initiated by Pascal Courtois and Fabien Penso. It allows you to create photo galeries, news systems, personal sites, blogs, etc.
- Textpattern is a flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. Textpattern is both free and open source.
- Tikiwiki is a full featured, multilingual, Free
Software (GNU/LGPL) Wiki/CMS/Groupware written in PHP
and maintained by an active and international community of benevolent contributors. - toendaCMS Content Management and Weblogging tool gives you a modern, professional publishing system, based on an SQL and/or XML database.
- TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets.
- TYPOlight webCMS is a powerful web content management system that specializes in accessibility (back end and front end) and uses XHTML and CSS to generate W3C/WAI compliant pages. It was developed by Leo Feyer in 2004 and has been released under the General Public License (GPL).
- Website Baker is a PHP-based Content Management System (CMS) designed with one goal in mind: to enable its users to produce websites with ease.
- Xaraya is a open source software written in PHP and licensed under the GNU General Public License. Xaraya utilizes robust permissions, data management and multilingual systems to dynamically integrate and manage content.
- XHP CMS - eXpandable Home Page is an easy to install, easy to use, easy to expand content management system (CMS) written in PHP and using MySQL as the database engine.
- XOOPS is an easy to use dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.
- YACS is an open source and open-standards web dynamic system based on PHP and MySQL with a focus on best practices and code quality.