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SilverStripe is a powerful content management system which runs on Sapphire framework (object oriented framework like Ruby on Rails or Django).

The framework lets you rapidly code up the "objects" your project uses (e.g. staff members, products, customers, along with their relationships). You then add a few lines of code and find SilverStripe has automatically added tables and columns to the database, let you use them in your website templates, and has added new "page types" and fields into the CMS for the content editor to utilise.

Some features:

• Simple: Intuitive and user-friendly
• Flexible coding framework
• Scalable: From 1 page to a million
• Standards Compliant: Fully XHTML compliant
• Modular
• Template Freedom: No restrictions on the look and feel of your site
• Open source
• Cross platform easy to install (PHP based)
• Supported

One of the best things about SilverStripe CMS is the active community behind it. You can easily find support from users.

There are some very useful modules developed for this content management system including a blog module, forum module & an e-commerce module.

Requirements: PHP 5.2+, MySQL
Website: http://www.silverstripe.com/
Frontend Demo: http://demo.silverstripe.com/
Backend Demo: http://demo.silverstripe.com/Security/login
Backend Demo - User-Pass: User: admin - Pass: password
Download: http://www.silverstripe.com/silverstripe-web-applica...

Whether it is an university, a company or any other organization, e-learning is a great way to spread knowledge & measure the results efficiently (in means of time & money).

There are various open source e-learning applications that can be installed easily, have a wide user community & offers a complete system. Here are 7 of them which you will like:

 

eFront

eFront is a complete e-learning software with a good looking Ajaxed interface.
It enables admins to create & manage lessons easily with various tools like:

• content editors (has a flexible visual content editor and support for pictures, sound, video, flash or java)
• file manager & digital library (for file sharing)
• test builders
• abiity to assign projects
• creating surveys & more.

The system is multilingual & modular. It requires PHP & MySQL to run.

 

Moodle

Moodle is one of the most popular open source e-learning system. It is built with PHP & uses MySQL or PostgreSQL to store data.

It has powerful course management features that covers creating lessons, assignments, quizes, documents & more.

There are various modules that help students & teachers to interact with each other like chat, forum, survey or workshop.

It is used in 1000s of websites, has a detailed documentation & a wide community.

 

Dokeos

Dokeos, besides the standard course management features, offers Flash based videoconferencing which enables you to organise live training and meetings remotely.

Powerpoint presentations can be imported and converted in to SCORM courses.

The system has a "coaching" feature to interact with the learners through agenda, forums, chat, videoconference, open questions-answers and assignment feedbacks.
It requires PHP & MySQL to run.

 

Claroline

Claroline is an open source e-learning and e-working platform that allows teachers to create effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web. It has a wide user community & already translated to 35 languages.

You can create online exercises & track the result of them, define a learning path where students can follow one-by-one, add group works, assignments & more..

It is possible to interact with users via chat or forums.
The application requires PHP & MySQL.

 

Ilias Learning Management

Ilias is a powerful web-based learning application where every user has a comprehensive personal desktop to use the system, keep notes, bookmarks, etc.

It offers a cooperative learning environment where user can create working groups, or groups of certain interests.

Ilias has a flexible test system where time based tests can be created with multiple choice, single choice, allocation questions, cloze questions (free text, select box), ordering, matching, hot spot and more question types.

You need PHP & MySQL to run the system.

 

Sakai Project

Sakai is a powerful yet flexible solution that supports not only teaching and learning but also research and administrative collaboration.

Using the application, you can create courses, manage assignments, share documents, prepare exams. And, as a result,  grade informations can be calculate, stored and distributed.

Sakai offers modules for announcements, chat, discussion forums & more.
P.S. The application is Java based.

 

Olat

Olat is a Java-based, Ajaxed & multilingual & open source web-based learning management system.
It is possible to create flexible courses with tests, wikis, forums, documents, tasks & more.

There is an integrated Ajaxed instant messenger for easier communication.
The application comes with a 1-click installer that configures the server.

TYPOlight is one of the most attractive open source content management systems I have seen.
Built with PHP5, TYPOlight uses MySQL for storing the data. Besides the powerful features, this CMS application is very well documented and has an active users community.

As a feature spotlight, XHTML output, form generator and being able to manage multiple websites under 1 system are really nice.

Features of TYPOlight

• Live update feature
• Uses Ajax technology
• Intuitive user interface
• Accessible XHTML strict output
• Versioning and undo management
• Accessible administration area
• Front end output 100% template based
• Automatic e-mail encryption (spam protection)
• Powerful permission system (user management)
• Newsletter management
• Form generator
• Multi-language support (character set UTF-8)
• Generates search engine friendly URLs
• Web 2.0 support (e.g. lightbox)
• Advanced search and sorting options
• Multiple back end languages and back end themes
• Supports multiple websites in one tree
• Supports GZip compression
• Print articles as PDF

Requirements: PHP5+, MySQL 4.1+
Website: http://www.typolight.org
Demo: http://www.typolight.org/demo.html
Download: http://www.typolight.org/download.html

Umbraco is an open source content management system built with ASP.NET and using MSSQL for storing the data.

Using Umbraco, designers can create valid XHTML with their markup left intact and developers can integrate any .Net based controls out of the box.

Some features of this ASP.NET CMS software:

• Beautiful, user-friendly interface
• Integrated WYSIWYG Editor
• Support for editing in Microsoft Word
• Versioned and scheduled publishing
• Full support for own .NET Controls
• Documented API
• Use any .NET Language like c# or VB.NET
• Full source code available (open source)
• Super simple template engine
• Full support for web standards

This powerful free CMS application will also have reports (for statistics) and form creation features in the near future.

Requirements: ASP.NET, MSSQL
Website: http://umbraco.org/
Download: http://umbraco.org/download

PureEdit is a content management system specially for developers who create the front-end of the website themselves and need a flexible CMS software.

PureEdit lets you control the databases that you created with a nice looking CMS interface without any coding. It simply lets you create, edit or delete data with database. Compared to many other CMS softwares, you don’t need to adapt to the CMS software, PureEdit adapts to you.


The beauty of PureEdit comes with the clever interface that understands whether the database column will be shown as a file upload, text editor, date, etc..  By naming the columns with  _txt, _file, _date (ex: post_date) PureEdit gets that this will be a date value and shows this data as a date view.

To see the power of PureEdit, check the screencasts.

Requirements: PHP, MySQL
Website: http://www.pureedit.com/
Download: http://www.pureedit.com/

jobberBase is a free job listing software which is very suitable for creating a single-industry job board.
Job listings can be posted without an account (1 time approval required per e-mail), users can search for the jobs with an ajax search interface and apply to them.

 

jobberBase has RSS support for the listings & provides a widget that lets anyone to publish the job listings on any website. Also, all the posts & URL addresses are SEO friendly with mod_rewrite by default.

jobberBase can be a very nice starting point for anyone planning to create a job board. The software has a php-mysql backend and it is open to further development if needed.


This free job listing script is the original code used in jobber (Romanian web & IT related jobs search engine) and then published for everyone’s use and developed frequently.

Requirements: PHP 5+ (with mysqli extension enabled), mod_rewrite enabled, MySQL 4.1+
Website: http://www.jobberbase.com/
Demo: http://www.jobber.ro/

Zimplit is a ridiculously easy to use free CMS application which is ideal for simple websites.
There is no standard admin panel. A toolbox appears after logging in & you start editing the website.


You can add images, links, edit the HTML of a page and copy a page to use it as a template for a new page.
It requires PHP 4.3+ to run & no databases required.

The application needs CHMOD 777 on all files for editing them. Since they are HTML files (except zimplit.php), it does not sound very bad.

Alfresco is an open source enterprise level CMS application.

It provides document management, collaboration (in beta), records management, knowledge management, web content management and imaging.


Alfresco is built with Java & can be installed in both Window & Linux environments via "all-in-one installers".

Some features of Alfresco:

• Web Content Management
  • Web content authors can access and contribute content
  • Simply preview in-context changes to any web page or web application
  • Reduce the risk of error with simple a virtualization of changes against a live site
  • Use your tool of choice, such as Dreamweaver, for web interface development
  • The ability to preview in-context changes to any web application, including PHP, Ruby, JSF, Tiles, Struts, Groovy and .NET
  
  
• Document Management
  • All content is available via a shared drive interface
  • All content is available from within MS Office
  • Work in an MS Office environment for authoring and viewing
  • Save, version, share, search and audit
  • & many more..

This application is great for any company who wants to manage all the information from one central including websites, documents & knowledge.

Requirements: Java Enabled Server
Website: http://www.alfresco.com/
Download: http://www.alfresco.com/products/ecm/enttrial/all/

Constructr is a fresh open source CMS application built with PHP & MySQL.
With an Ajaxed backend, this CMS application uses TinyMCE for content editing & supports clean URLs via mod_rewrite.

The admin interface has:

• Backend user & right management
• Asset center for uploads
• Integrated search engine for asset
• Automatic sync after FTP-uploads
• Automatic thumb´s for image-uploads
• Integrated shadowbox-viewer for assets
• Customizable backend language (Available: DE, EN, US, CH, AU)
• Live preview  for hidden pages and content

For the frontend:

• Cache system
• File based templates
• Multilingual frontend support
• Use a frontent that fits your special needs (pure PHP and MySQL, Smarty, Flash …)
• Individual 404 error page
• Automatic RSS 2.0-Feed for every single content

Like mentioned, this free content management system is still fresh but frequently updated & looks promising.

Requirements: PHP & MySQL
Website: http://constructr-cms.org/
Via: http://sharebrain.info/brainpicks/cms-systems-brainp...

Liferay, with 60 tools and a selection of today’s most innovative technologies, enables you to do everything like:

• Creating websites.
• Building intranets.
• Simply getting the right documents and applications to the right people.

Liferay inlcudes web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.
With the role-based authorization, admins & users can define which information can be viewed by which users.

A strong set of community features help creating communities, user groups & they can have their own mini-portals.

Some other included features are: wikis, forums, instant messenger, calendar, webmail, blogs & more.
And, any other applications like accounting, sales can be integrated with its open architecture.

The application is "giant" with the features it offers & hard to describe its capabilities completely. Users interested in creating an enterprise portal should definitely check it.

Requirements: Supports multiple OSs, applications servers & databases.
Website: http://www.liferay.com/
Demo: http://demo.liferay.net/
Download: http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/products/portal/get...

TypePublish is a fresh CMS application that aims to be the Wordpress for "corporate websites", specially with the simplicity it provides.

It is a well-planned application for any user (novice & expert internet users and developers).


Management of the content is well-organized & descriptive in every step.
Website content can be created in multiple languages & TypePublish supports this in the front-end.
Logo, favicon, contact page settings & similar basic (although handy for corporate users) information can be updated easily.

Using the admin panel, any statistics script can be installed too.
To summarize, TypePublish will probably meet the needs of a big percentage of corporate websites very well & nothing more, which is good in most cases.

Pixie is an open source website maker, built with PHP & uses MySQL,  which is very simple, focused & easy to use.

From the application’s website:

Pixie is not out to compete with any other site management tool. Our main goal is to keep Pixie so simple that even your Grandma could use it.

Pixie’s difference starts from the installer. It lets you choose the type of site you need. A blog? Website for your band? Or a corporate look?

The application is seriously respectful to web standards, offers SEO friendly URLs & can be extended with modules, plugins, etc.

The look & feel of the websites can be customized with CSS & there are various free themes to start with.
Pixie creates the sitemap.xml for you, has RSS, multilanguage support & much more.
And, the application is improved continiously & extra information (like sites using it) can be found at the product’s blog.

Requirements: PHP 4.3+, MySQL 4+
Website: http://www.getpixie.co.uk/
Backend Demo: http://demo.getpixie.co.uk/admin/
Download: http://www.getpixie.co.uk/downloads/

ProFolio is a free & ready-to-go script for creating portfolio websites easily.
The application is very ideal for presenting the portfolio of artists, designers, photographers, or anyone who needs to display their work with style.


ProFolio is built with PHP - MySQL and it comes with a web-based installer (check the read_me.rtf file).
You can create categories & upload images (works) under these categories (auto reize support). They will be displayed as an image gallery. Also, you can update your about & contact pages via the admin interface.
And, for customizing the look & feel of the website, check the customization options.

ImpressCMS is a powerful & free PHP – MySQL content management system which is, currently, based on famous XOOPS but developed in another direction.




It is a community developed application and has already 150+ addons including e-commerce, forum support & more.

Some features:

• Fully modularized
• User registration & personalization
• User permissions management
• Multilanguage
• Theme-based skinnable interface
• & more..

Requirements: PHP,MySQL
Website: http://www.impresscms.org
Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?&group_...

Besides anything we write on a website, we also create content on 3rd party services by:

• uploading images, videos (Flickr, Youtube..)
• saving bookmaks or voting (Delicious, Digg..)
• listening to music (Last.fm..)
• logging "what we are doing right now" (Twitter, Facebook..)
• & more..

AmpliFeeder is an open source lifestream application which can combine every activity we have on other services & present them.



The application is already integrated with many popular services & new ones can be added easily.
The look & feel can be totally customized with the theming support (there are 10+ ready-to-use themes).
AmpliFeeder is built with ASP.NET & uses MSSQL for storing the data.

P.S. The source code is not yet available for download but it can be downloaded in the next few weeks.

TiddlyWiki is an open source wiki application which works with only one HTML file.
It uses the power of CSS & JavaScript (with jQuery) to enable displaying, editing, saving, tagging & searching of the content.



Considering the ease of use, installation & portability, it is ideal for creating an instant (maybe temporary) website, a personal notebook & so.

It is possible to import/export content from other TiddlyWikis & improve the features with the plugin support.

JoobsBox is an open source job board application which is built with PHP (Zend Framework) & MySQL.

No membership is required to add new job listings & they can be posted under pre-defined categories.
It comes with a plugin system which makes it possible to extend the application easily. There are already several plugins like iPhone plugin or the Twitter plugin (auto-posts the listings to Twitter).


The application offers an admin panel where all the categories, listings, plugins & other variables can be controlled.

JoobsBox is multilingual & themeable. The project is currently in alpha stage, not mature but promising.

GetSimple is an open source XML-based CMS application that is very easy to setup & customize.
The use of XML rather than a SQL database for storing the data makes it ideal for small websites. But this is a "plus" on the performance side as the risk for a "possible slowness while connecting to a SQL database" is eliminated.


GetSimple is built with PHP & offers a great feature which is the ability to "undo" almost every action, a time-saver on mistakes made.

The application has a simple & slick admin interface that is so easy to learn.
With a detailed documentation, it is possible to findout the details of GetSimple like "theme customization" or "how to create a contact form".

And, GetSimple enables you to backup & restore the entire website with just a click.

Forums are clearly one of the most standard ways of sharing knowledge on the net. With easy-to-use interfaces & strong community features, they are still very functional & popular.

They can be easily integrated into a website by customizing the look & feel or used as a framework which is sometimes a good idea considering the features they offer.

Here are 9 widely-used, open-source & free forum softwares, where most of them are built with PHP, that you may consider using:

phpBB (PHP)

phpBB is one of the oldest & widely used forum softwares around. It is being updated frequently with improvements in speed, security & features.

It comes with a powerful administrator panel where all aspects of the system can be managed & supports almost any database.

The software has a very crowded community which makes it easier to get support.

MyBB (PHP)

This free forum software works with MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
MyBB has nice features like calendar/events, mass mailing to members, a built-in theme editor & more.
Besides an admin panel, a moderator panel helps managing the system by multiple users.

Simple Machines Forum (SMF) (PHP)

SMF is the PHP successor of the Perl-based forum YABB. It comes with a comprehensive template system, polls, groups, calendars & more.

The software uses MySQL for storing data & has 40+ ready-to-download language files.

Vanilla (PHP)

 
Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, theme-able, pluggable discussion forum.
It is built on the Garden, a PHP development framework, which is easily extendible with a powerful plug-in architecture. And, there are already 450+ plugins that are ready-to-use.

Vanilla requires MySQL as the database.

PunBB (PHP)

 
PunBB is a fast and lightweight forum application which aims to be less graphically intensive compared to other discussion boards.

It supports with MySQL, PostgreSQL & SQLite. The design can be easily updated with the theming support. It is multilanguage & can be extended with the extension support.

FluxBB (PHP)

 
FluxBB is a fork of PunBB which supports both PHP4 & PHP5 with MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.
It generates "XHTML 1.0 Strict" valid pages & can be easily translated into any language.

bbPress (PHP)

bbPress is a forum software from the creators of Wordpress which is plain, simple & fast.
It can be customized with templates & extended with plugins. And, it integrates perfectly with Wordpress.

Phorum (PHP)

Phorum is also one of the oldest forum softwares. It has support for theming & modules.
The software uses MySQL for storing data

YetAnotherForum.Net (ASP.NET)

YetAnotherForum is a free application that is built with ASP.NET (C#) & uses MSSQL as the database.
It has a feature-rich administrator panel, supports unlimited categories/user groups, templating & more..

Which forum software do you think is the best one, do you have a favorite?

jCore is a free, open source & multi-website CMS which is created specially for webmasters who maintain multiple websites.

It is built with PHP/ MySQL & has 2 parts:

• jCore server (main system which holds all the libraries and modules)
• jCore client (stripped version of the core system which uses the files from the server)

jCore has various great features like:

• multilanguage
• dynamic forms
• RSS feeds
• banner management
• member management
• SEO friendly links
• custom 404 error pages
• & more

The system can be extended with the modules support as there are already ready-to-use ones like photo gallery or contact form.