Content Management System

From M3:DEV

What is a CMS

As defined by Wikipedia: view CMS Wikipedia Article

CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content. These concepts represent integrated and interdependent layers. There are various nomenclatures known in this area: Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Digital Records Management, Electronic Content Management and so on. The bottom line for these systems is managing content and publishing, with a workflow if required.

There are hundred of CMSs out there. You can compare and rate them using The CMS Matrix. This may prove to be a valuable resource as the BrikerBraK system is rewritten.

Popular content managment systems

So far we have found the following CMSs are popular in the PHP community.

• Drupal
• Joomla
• Mambo
• PHP-NUKE ( Still researching this one )