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Other CMS (Not Drupal, Joomla or WP) - for consideration

Discussion in 'Drupal' started by superjacent, Mar 1, 2009.

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    They're are a heap of threads in this forum along the lines of 'which CMS should I use' and most passionately vote for one of the Big Three (Drupal, Joomla or Wordpress).

    Not including the Big Three has anyone had experience with other CMS's. Put another way, if you developed using one of the Big Three and it were to fold is there a system you have in your back pocket that you wouldn't mind taking a further look.

    I've fleetingly played with e107 but it seems like development has come to a standstill. Having said that I wouldn't mind delving a little deeper.
     
    superjacent, Mar 1, 2009 IP
  2. ksb2050

    ksb2050 Well-Known Member

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    I've used subdreamer before. It has excellent forum integration but it's not large interactive sites. There's a limited number of mods and themes and the CMS seems to do prro with high loads of traffic. This is my experience with it anyhow.
     
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  3. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    I've had a bit of a go with mambo - which obviously is very like joomla, and a blogging platform called frog (which I don't think is still going)
    They were both fine in their own terms,but it is the lack of themes and plug-ins that hampers lesser known cms and sends people running back to the big 3.
     
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  4. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    I had to tinker around with this a few weeks ago. It is quite sound

    http://www.vivvo.net/

    hope that helps,
    Nigel
     
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  5. himtuna

    himtuna Member

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    #5
    expressengine
    silver stripe
    and some oldies of cake
    nukephp
    cake php...

    alfresco( dont ask me anything,just heard taht tis pwerful)
    and seriously telling me too searching for an alternate.. because once the discovering and play arounnd with scripts is over you start feeling boring.
    I am bored from joomla,drupal,etc. Need something to challenge us again.
     
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  6. varun7991

    varun7991 Guest

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    Tested many. Including:
    SilverStripe
    ExpressionEngine
    B2Evolution
    Nuclear CMS
    Lifetype
    PHP BB
    BBPress
    SMF

    I think thats all I know..
     
    varun7991, Mar 3, 2009 IP
  7. Cadet

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  8. ~kev~

    ~kev~ Well-Known Member

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    #8
    I have used:
    Postnuke
    PHPnuke
    MDPro
    Dragonfly
    Mambo
    Drupal
    and a few others.

    All of them have their good and bad points - and some have faded away. At one time PHPnuke and Postnuke were the two most popular ones on the market, but that was 8 - 10 years ago.

    Mambo is almost an exact clone of Joomla. Even though there are some differences, they are a lot alike.

    Drupal is cool - I have seen some really nice websites built with this CMS.

    MDPro - is almost dead

    Dragonfly - Is almost dead

    There are a LOT of CMSs out there, but some of them do not stay up to date with security and bug fixes.
     
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  9. Astroman

    Astroman Well-Known Member

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    I've done the rounds like the above, phpnuke, postnuke etc and I also tried phpwebsite for a couple of years. It was okay but I wanted to consolidate all my sites to using something else so I changed the one site using phpwebsite to match my others.
     
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  10. superjacent

    superjacent Peon

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    I came across this site a while ago, opensourcecms, try before you buy so to speak (not that you have to actually buy anything). Very useful.
     
    superjacent, Mar 7, 2009 IP
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    misstycoon Well-Known Member

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    mkportal is the best ever ! it is the easiest to setup and use and modify and the top forums are all easy to integrate with it, I have been using mkportal for years and still cant believe its free, .

    checkit out you wont be sorry it has everything ;

    http://www.mkportal.it

    look at this for an example of what it looks like ;

    http://www.runecrypt.com/index.php
     
    misstycoon, Mar 8, 2009 IP
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    nosf009 Well-Known Member

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    We're trying out ezPublish in our company for official website, and it looks okay so far http://ez.no/ so you might check it out also.

    It's a bit advanced and may seem complicated for first timers, but also quite powerful.
     
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  13. buldozerceto

    buldozerceto Active Member

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    I will suggest you mambo or solucija.
     
    buldozerceto, Mar 8, 2009 IP
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    Gosu-Media Peon

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    opensourcecms is quite nice
     
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    mg1313 Peon

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    If you want to have a study of some CMSes and how much they are used (2008) then take a look here: http://www.mytestbox.com/content-ma...t-systems-cms-market-share-survey-study-2008/
     
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    typo3 is a very good php cms but very basic at out of the box version and need too much work.

    plone is a perl script that is famous for it's security level!
     
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    ExtremR Active Member

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    I would recommend Subdreamer.Really good.
     
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    I'm not sure why MODx isn't stuck in people's minds when they think of a CMS.

    It's as easy as you want it to be, and has as much power as you want. Consider MODx - you won't regret it.
     
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    Astroman Well-Known Member

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    That looks really interesting, I can't believe I never saw it before. I will give it a try soon for sure.
     
    Astroman, Mar 12, 2009 IP
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    vivvosites Peon

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