PHP Content Management System

phpCMS is great!
In my opinion phpCMS is a great system if you are looking for one, which should be capable of managing small- or medium-sized web application.

It is running only on PHP flat files, you don't need a database!

I think the English documentation is good, too, so don't cry and use phpCMS!

Re: tutorial

> From my own experience, I know it is
> hard to install
> the system.

Here is how to install phpCMS on your server!
Be sure that your servers supports PHP! Ask your provider...

Step 1: Upload all files from phpcms to your root directory!

Step 2: Chmod some files/directories to 777 with your FTP (e.g. WS_FTP):

dir: /parser
/parser/cache
/parser/stat
/parser/include
/parser/stat/backup
/parser/stat/current

files:
stat.txt in /parser/stat/current
default.php in /parser/include

DELETE file dummy.txt in /parser/cache and in /parser/stat/backup

DONE!

Test your phpCMS by entering www.yoursite.com/parse...

Enjoy it...have phun, questions?

Zaeb

A few pointers
I've been hacking around with phpCMS for a week or so (slow going because I don't speak German and babelfish won't translate the phpCMS web pages) and I've discovered a few things that may be of help to others:

1. The "options.php" file mentioned in the English documentation is bogus. The file you should be looking at is /parser/include/default.php

2. To get to the login screen for the management interface, point your web browser to /parser/parser.php?phpcmsaction=FRAMESET You can then enter the login password (default is 'phpcms') listed in the default.php file mentioned above.

3. The file manager is going to try to index everything underneath your document root directory, whether or not it's in the phpCMS tree. If it can't access one of the directories, it will die.

4. phpCMS appears to generate Internet Explorer specific HTML. I spent quite awhile wondering why many screens came up blank in Netscape 4.72 (running on Solaris.) I finally saved the generated HTML from the file manager frame and ran it through 'tidy' which spit out tons of warnings about form inputs not being valid inside tables. On a hunch, I tried IE on the file and it displayed just fine, including several (probably copyrighted and/or trademarked) IE logos in file and navigation icons.

phpCMS looks like a great tool (with a steep learning curve if you don't speak German) but the environment I'm developing for only has Netscape 4.72 running on Solaris available to the users. The Internet Explorer requirement killed it for my current project.

Scott

Re: What are the install instructions?

> Through me a bone here.

Here's the bone: parser.php starts the GUI.
/parser/parser.php?file=/demo/index.htm should start the demo.

Re: tutorial
%quote%
> Might be good software, however,
> please provide a
> decent manual. German would be fine,
> I'm sure
> someone (I'm not really that capable
> of reading
> german) will translate it. Please ?
>
>

The manual-project is on the way. In the meantime you could look in our forum, there is an english section.

mcyra