http://www.phpwcms.de/ phpwcms is an Open Sorce web content management system based on PHP/MySQL. http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,1,0,0,1,0 index phpwcms is an Open Source web content management system. It is optimized for fast and easy setup and works on any standard webserver platform that supports PHP/MySQL and was tested successfully on Windows 2000/XP, MacOSX and LINUX. phpwcms is perfect for professional, public and private users. It is very easy to learn and gives you the flexibility to separate layout and content. Lots of powerful but simple implemented features assists publishers and web developers too. 2003-10-13 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,3,0,0,1,0 News A user asked for the possibility of RSS creation. So here it it! The file rss.php will create a RSS 1.0 compatible XML file. It is possible to create different feeds based on your site structure. Try the complete RSS feed. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,8,0,0,1,0 News I thought about an optimized random image placeholder tag. So I created a better one that must given the directory path only. Then the replacement function creates a pure HTML image tag based on the list of files found in this directory. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,9,0,0,1,0 News After 2 weeks another big step in developement of phpwcms is done. I decided to release phpwcms 1.1-RC1 as the 1st recommend stable version (start download). This version has everything inside you need for creating websites like the phpwcms project site. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,14,0,0,1,0 News Yepp! There it is: not so many changes but useful improvements and some bug fixes. All you have to do is download the patch package. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,26,0,0,1,0 News Today I have published a new release of phpwcms. There are a lot of fixes implemented. But also 2 new replacement tags where added. These tags helps to create list based CSS styled navigation menus. One represents the top site structure level, the other one returns a list with the currect level. CSS is a very powerful technique. One cool new thing is to use CSS styled HTML lists. This produces very smart rollover menus (based on the used CSS settings) without any JavaScript onMouseOver code. The need of a modern webbrowser is the only limitation. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,28,0,0,1,0 News Done! Now phpwcms should have no more problems when international characters are used — I hope so. I replaced every htmlspecialchars() function with a new function that converts special chars in a safe way. Welcome Turkish users (ŞşİıÖöÇçĞğÜü) and Polish people (Pełna nazwa kraju: Rzeczpospolita Polska) and anybody else who had problems with this. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,29,0,0,1,0 News Another long awaited feature is now usable in phpwcms — PHP's built-in GD image processing functionality. Most available hosting packages does not support ImageMagick but GD. The integration of an alternative image resizing function was of the utmost importance for me and as I saw in forum for you too. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,30,0,0,1,0 News Here is my new year's present to you - the new release of phpwcms v1.1-RC2. I decided to make it not final at the moment. I will decribe new features and funtions later. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,31,0,0,1,0 News Languages with multibyte chars like Chinese aren't very good supported by phpwcms. Now I have patched many database fields for better handling of multibyte chars. For instance article titles are now stored as TEXT (max. 65535 chars) - not longer as VARCHAR (max. 255 chars): for Chinese language this has meant only a maximum of 31 chars per title). 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,34,0,0,1,0 News The new release with lot enhacements is out since 20. April 2004. Main new features: basic newsletter (is working now), guestbook and sitemap. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,35,0,0,1,0 News The new release includes 2 new content parts: bid and list. The list content part is based on Jérôme's work - thank you! But now it is enhanced for linebreaks inside every list item too. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,36,0,0,1,0 News Long time ago and you are still waiting for the final release. I have to say sorry - but it will need more time to have it ready. So keep one's fingers crossed… …and always download current development release. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,37,0,0,1,0 News I often get emails asking if this project is stopped: NO! I'm still developing phpwcms but a bit slower because of lot of different projects I'm working on at the moment. Sorry for the delay. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,39,0,0,1,0 News Yes, yes and sorry. Project development was very slow over the last year. This was based on my job in Berlin. But this delay is over now - so further development will speed up and new release is on the way. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,40,0,0,1,0 News A security problem was reported. Please visit phpwcms forum to get all information neccessary to fix this. Patched release is in preparation. 2006-08-20 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,41,0,0,1,0 News As you know and can see - the old project site is very outdated. The redesigned project website is in preparation and will go online when the new major release is ready. To stay informed about development and always have the latest recommend release installed please visit the forum here. 2007-04-26 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,4,0,0,1,0 About phpwcms Open Source is a hype and since the success of LINUX it is widely accepted. Because of having no license fees and the possibility of look at the source code a large group of professional, public and private users use open source software for their special needs. In my opinion open source is a social movement: give and take. Look at SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source software development website. This shows you what I mean. You can find very professional software for nearly every scope of application. 2003-10-12 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,11,0,0,1,0 Documentation I am very proud about phpwcms. It is a good PHP script and very useful too (I think). And my advantage is — I know its functionality. But now it is time to support you with good install, setup and editorial manual. If you are experienced enough please support this project with your own docs or help me bringing texts into clear and correct English. 2003-11-04 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,2,0,0,1,0 Support Well you need help? And there is no info about your problem on the official phpwcms project page? Then give our phpBB2 based support forum a chance. It is for sure the fastest way to get an answer that may help you. Also visit the support forum if you have feature requests or if you would communicate with other phpwcms users or people who are interested in. 2003-11-24 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,10,0,0,1,0 Contact Oliver Georgi Hegerplatz 7 06846 Dessau Germany tel +49-340-2214904 fax +49-340-2215153 email: oliver at phpwcms dot de www.webverbund.de 2004-12-18 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,6,0,0,1,0 Download phpwcms is a project that might never be finished. Everey day new fixes, extensions and enhancements maybe published. So come back regulary to see if there is something new for you. You can find former releases on SourceForge.net too. I have to say sorry - but I'm not able to update every text when something has changed. It's a question of time. 2007-03-07 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,13,0,0,1,0 Features phpwcms isn't ready and some features are rudimentary but the cms has a great potential and is fully usable. The list of features is not complete. If you miss one please ask me. 2004-04-01 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,7,0,0,1,0 Screenshots phpwcms is divided into backend and frontend. The backend is accessible to registred users only while the frontend is for presenting the website. To access the backend you must login. If you have administrative rights you can also change the template settings, manage user accounts and so on. Here you will find some screenshots without any detailed description. For more information about every phpwcms section have a look at the documentation (in preparation slowly). 2004-06-08 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,18,0,0,1,0 Installation phpwcms does not have an installer like many other applications. But the install process is very easy. Before you start be sure you have installed ImageMagick and GhostScript. You need some experience in how to copy files via file transfer protocol (FTP) to your web server. And you must have ready your MySQL account information (db name, db host, username, password). Let's start! 2003-11-04 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,15,0,0,1,0 Templates At the moment not really finished is phpwcms's template management. But it's flexible, stable and usable. It can handle unlimited templates – every site structure level can equipped with its own template. One template can be predefined as the default template. The default template is used whenever a site structure level has no assigned template. Every template value is stored in the database. This is faster than loading from template files. 2003-11-06 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,16,0,0,1,0 Logos Thanks for your interest! If you want to support phpwcms choose one of the attached material. You can use this for free. Please send me a link if you have used something anywhere on the web. 2003-11-03 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,17,0,0,1,0 Paid Installation This is only an offer! It is for everybody who wants to get phpwcms running without investing time. Due to the fact that I also have to pay my invoices and normally can not work for nothing I decided to support you in that other way. But you can use the support forum to find an answer too. 2003-11-05 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,19,0,0,1,0 Page Layout When I thought about phpwcms's functionalities this part of the cms was very important to me. "How can I setup my page layout?" must be the most common question users have when they start creating a website. Before implementing this I have seen many cms applications. But often the template creation is very difficult and hard to understand. That's why I have implemented a page layout assistent based on the most used static page layout: header, 3-column (1|2|3), footer and space row or column between the main blocks. 2003-11-06 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,20,0,0,1,0 Site Structure After you have arranged page layout and templates of your originating website it's time to think about the structure of your website. This is a cool section in phpwcms and can be find in the admin section. Starting this for the first time you will wondering yourself — there is only one entry "index". 2003-11-07 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,21,0,0,1,0 Hidden Level This is the hidden structure level demonstration for the documentation. 2003-11-07 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,24,0,0,1,0 Replacement Tags phpwcms is a flexible tool for storing and editing different types of content. It comes with many predefined content type editors. But often it is simply to much and you might wish to have a basic snippet of code that represents a special function or returns additional or extended content parts. Replacement tags are implemented for this reason in the content parser. The following text will describe every available phpwcms replacement tag. You can use replacement tags anywherwe: in headlines, subheadlines, summary, templates and so on. 2003-11-07 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,22,0,0,1,0 File Manager File management section of phpwcms is the oldest developed part of phpwcms. This was the main reason for developing phpwcms. The intension was to create a file archive for a small community for a customer of mine. It's online until today and handles more than 5000 files. All file actions should be available to registered users only. That's why you can find the partially confusing setting "active" and "public". But now you have one of the most powerful file management solutions you can find inside a content management system. 2003-11-07 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,33,0,0,1,0 To do ...but you can speed up the development process by supporting me via PayPal. ;-) 2004-06-27 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,25,0,0,1,0 Index Page When you install phpwcms there is an index.html page in phpwcms root. This is only a simple phpwcms info page that links to the login.php. If you want to use a simple index.html or default.html this is no problem. Webserver configuration can handle different index pages, but will load them in different order. Often it is configured like this: 1) index.htm/html, 2) index.php and so on. 2003-11-08 Oliver Georgi http://www.phpwcms.de/index.php?id=0,32,0,0,1,0 Update/Upgrade Often or sometimes a new version of phpwcms will be released. Updating is very easy (normally). So please do the following... 2004-04-01 Oliver Georgi