SilverStripe CMS

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The admin piece is built using Prototype, Scriptaculous and the TinyMCE rich text editor. It uses Object Oriented PHP5 and talks to MySQL backend.

There is a nice feel to using the explorer interface to manage files (e.g. hit rearrange and you can drag and drop), and then seeing your site in preview mode. A really nice touch is being able to see your site in draft, and compare it to the published version

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Features

  • Simple user interface. Simple, tailored to your site, WYSIWYG editing, easy enough for your Mom to use.
  • Easy to customise. Anything you can do with HTML, you can do with the SilverStripe template system.
  • Multiple ways of organising navigation. Organise content in more than one hierachy with the use of “virtual pages” or tags.
  • Flexible data object model. The database is automatically managed by a rich object-oriented data model. Creating custom data types is a few lines of code away – simply make a sub-class and define the additional fields.
  • Multiple templates per page. Every page has a default style, but there’s no need to be restricted by this. Define different templates for your pages.
  • Flexible, “plain HTML” templates. You have total control of the HTML produced by SilverStripe; the templates use as much “plain HTML” as possible.
  • Seperate “draft site” and “published site”. Staged content enables you to make changes which on a seperate site, before you publish it to the live site that the public can see.
  • Asset management. Image resizing, define custom sizes to fit within your template.
  • Versioning and roll-back. See an audit trail of all changes to your page.
  • Full commercial support available. For both developers and end-users.
  • Search engine friend. Friendly URLs, Meta-data support, and clean XHTML templates mean that Google will love your site.
  • UTF-8 Support. Macrons and other character sets are fully supported.
  • RSS. Generate feeds of parts of your site.
  • XHTML Compliant.
  • Full text search. Easily search your entire site, or just bits of it, including PDF’s and word documents.

homepage:  http://www.silverstripe.com

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