Basic PHP CMS?

Smiley012

Hello,

Hopefully someone can help me, I'm looking to set up a very basic cms on a clients website, so they can just upload stories into various categories. My issue is that Joomla and Drupal can do what I need with a html/rich text editor, but they can also do a million other things too that I don't need.

I just need a basic login, which takes the user to the back end, where they can choose where to upload their story too, and a text input to copy and paste the stories. The text input needs to be editable to create line breaks etc.

I don't need all the bells and whistles, does anyone know of a suitable CMS for this?

Thanks,

Eily

zAbbo

You could create the site in HTML, and use something like these two to allow CMS functionality

http://www.cushycms.com/
http://www.pagelime.com/

NeverSayDie

You could look at using a blog engine (eg WordPress) as a CMS, if your requirements are basic enough. Never tried it, but I know folks who've used that approach when they were trying to avoid clutter and complexity, apparently works quite well for simple sites.

Random article on the topic;
http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/20/from-weblog-to-cms.html

Evil Phil

CMS Made Simple is good too.

daymobrew

Evil Phil wrote: »

CMS Made Simple is good too.

I use CMSMS for my residents association website.
The News module would work for your client - simply set up the categories (or they can do it as needed) and then they select the category when editing.
You add a few pages to the site where the only content is a tag to include news of a certain category.

Having said that, I am really starting to like Wordpress, though skinning CMSMS is much easier - no embedded PHP required.

clearz

As said above I would have to give a thumbs up for CMSMadeSimple for small to medium sites. Im not sure if it uses the MVC pattern underneath the hood but you can avoid mixing logic with the presentation using the in built smarty tag system.

Smiley012

thanks for the options guys, i'm gna have a look at all of them to see which one I reckon I can work easiest with!

willows

try perch, its a tiny cms

forbairt

Smiley012 wrote: »

thanks for the options guys, i'm gna have a look at all of them to see which one I reckon I can work easiest with!

If its ultra basic what you need snews might be an option http://snewscms.com/

But normally I'll be using CMSMS or wordpress and sometimes even both together