content management systems

WebReference.com continues their series looking at user administration in content management systems.

This time they look at the importance of user roles and some code to add to help manage them.

Douglas Clifton has put together a series of blog posts looking at several different types of categories that PHP applications and tools can fit into:

Rather than spending the time and effort to implement paging, I took another approach.

And that was to get down to specifics. This was really a taxonomy problem, and the key was to break the page up into a top-level (general) category, and then divide the rest into sub-categories.

His series of articles covers:

Linux.com: "Dave Whiting, the principal at Red Newt Cellars winery in upstate New York, was tired of chasing vendors to try to get them to support clunky custom content management systems on his site at RedNewt.com.

The independent winemaker decided to branch out and teach himself site development skills, with the help of some popular open source applications.

The happy result is a full-featured interactive ecommerce site that Whiting says is flexible, scalable, and secure."

In an excerpt from this book from Packt Publishing, Martin Brampton look sat access control for content management systems and considerations that need to be made to make it effective.

Intranet Journal: "These days, much of the world of open source has turned squarely toward using open source content management systems (CMS) to better manage the needs of today's enterprise and small business.

In this article, I will be examining some of the most compelling CMS-based solutions that do not involve Drupal or WordPress."

A new post on the Debuggable blog spotlights a content management system built on top of the framework - Wildflower.

Packt: "Following six weeks of intense voting, Packt can now exclusively reveal the Content Management Systems that have made the final of the four different categories.

With the final voting stage opening on September 1, the competition is likely to be strong with new CMS's joining some of the more established names in each category to compete for a share of the $20,000 prize money."

On the PHPClasses.org website there's a new book review posted from Alexandre Altair de Melo about a new book from Packt Publishing - "PHP 5 CMS Framework Development" (by Martin Brampton).

On the Developer Tutorials site today, there's a new look at working with the Drupal e-Commerce module in your Drupal installation.

As Web sites become more and more dynamic, becoming more like applications than simple information repositories, efficient, scalable content management systems (CMS) have to be an integral part of their growth and health.

Your Web site has specific needs now in order to be successful and they are likely to change over time. The content management system (CMS) you choose to manage your site needs to be able to evolve, growing not only with your site, but with the Web itself.

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