Looking for CMS

I haven't been able to get help at opensourcecms.com so maybe here I can get some help.

Im looking for a CMS with this features:

I need to have articles, these articles can be rated by users and user can also post comments to the article. Articles need to be sorted either by subject, or rating.

Also these articles need to be by sections/categories in this way

Category
--Subcategory
-- Sub-sub category
--articles

Easy to use and ease for posting articles a big plus (i don't know php yet)

Thanks in advance for the help


I have tried most (if not all) the cms at opensourcecms.com and none show that so far... i'm getting frustrated

 

Try the CMS from www.sitecubed.com !! I like it.

 

xoops has many article managers that do this.

 

Mitz: I have tried zoops, its the closest one so far, but it my be hard for users to submit, Do you know what module is the closes to what I'm looking for?

Honey: im checking that one out

 

Have you tried Typo3?

It's extremely powerful and I think it'll do everything you want.

 

Xoops is very easy to sumbit, check out my website and click sections. You may have to long in to sumbit news but it is as easy as posting on the forums

 

Mizt: thats what i'm looking for, What module or combination of modules are you using?

Thanks!!!!!

 

I used(ed) Mambo quite often. It has a decent module system, and the code is cleaner than some of the other popular systems. Personally, I've found no CMS system ever does exactly what you want, you will probably find yourself learning PHP eventually, so that you can hack the code to how _you_ want.

 

I have found that so far and im not an expert. I'm slowly starting to learn some php and mysql hopefully enough soon

 

If you do (learn PHP & MySQL), I would suggest purchasing some books on the subject.

Online sources are helpful. But, to cover all the basic concepts, you usually end up needing to use multitude of sources, all with slightly different perspectives on how things should be done, which helps you develop bad habits.

You'll learn far quicker using a physical reference. And, your resulting code will be cleaner.

Lastly, a lot of online material is written by people that are bad coders themselves - it can be hard to realise without much prior knowledge on programming in general.

 

Thanks for the advice Nullbit. I purchased Already a book: Beginning PHP, Apache, MySQL Web development from the programmer to programmer series by wrox. Is there any book or source you would recomend?

 

I started with this book:

PHP and MySQL Web Development, 3rd Edition
Luke Welling, Laura Thomson

Mine was an older edition. It's top rated on Amazon, and the praise in the reviews is warranted.

That book, combined with the knowledge at php.net & dev.mysql.com, is pretty much the only resources you will need 90% of the time.

 

Drupal has some modules which would fit your needs. However, to fully customize you might need some PHP knowledge. For drupal 4.5.2 there was a propstar module and a seperate nodemoderation module which allowed articles to be ranked and sorted. The taxonomy (categories) is very flexible as well. . .

 

All the Document Article modules in xoops do it. I'm using wf-sections but Smartsection is another popular one.

 

I like Open Source Web Development with LAMP. It covers PHP and Perl and Apache administration. Good stuff...10/10 from Slashdot.