How to update website's content?

best content management system for site for free or under $500 or phpnuke

• **sorry - only answers from researchers rated four or five stars will be accepted** what are the best content management systems for websites ? timescale - would like an answer within the next 5 days I want to be able to build a site visually how i want (ie not be restricted too much by a content management template) and yet easily update the site and allow certain others to update the site too Features of the system must include: Essential - password protected login for users to update the site - and i choose who gets a password - say 5 users will be udpating in total (perhaps only three on concurrently ) - ability to post a news story to a specific section of the site - ability to upload an image or images with a news story - ability to upload a document file eg pdf or MSword with a news story - ability to upload a document file eg pdf or MSword to a repository type area of the site - compatible with some form of on site search engine - relatively easy to backup - works on a shared hosting type set-up ie does not require a dedicated server Desirable - ability to upload a news story or item for approval stage before publishing by author with higher level authority - ability to automatically create "viewer poll" - ability to automatically create a calendar of events type page that can be administered via the cms and generates pretty looking calendar pages on the site - includes own onsite search engine - includes features to make backup easy - perhaps a hosted solution NOTE I want to run this on a unix server so please don't suggest windows based solution I favour php and mysql type solution Is phpnuke anygood ? the kind of thing i need ? I also like article manager from interactivetools.com - very user friendly and has most of the essential features but it seems a bit slow in delivering the pages (uses shtml) and security worries me on cgi based stuff Also you don't seem to be able to get at the underlying database with that system so if i ever needed to upgrade and extend to something new it would be a problem i think to port to a different system Summary What are the best php mysql CMS systems out there that meet my requirements ? What other solutions might suit that would run on unix ? Is their a suitable hosted solution instead ? Ideally Please give a feature and cost comparison table. thanks 1234

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  Hello, I did some research through a friend of mine concerning your question, who works with what you're asking for on a regular basis, and this is the answer he gave me. " Ezpublish does all this, http://developer.ez.no. It's licensed under the GPL, meaning it's 100% free. They do hosting also so you don't have to install on your server. Essential: - password protected login for users to update the site - and i choose who gets a password - say 5 users will be udpating in total (perhaps only three on concurrently ) ezpublish does fine grain permisions, you can give a user as little or as much access as you want - ability to post a news story to a specific section of the site It does sections, front page posts, etc - ability to upload an image or images with a news story Each story can have it's own images, or reference images in a main image repository. - ability to upload a document file eg pdf or MSword with a news story Each story can have files attached also - ability to upload a document file eg pdf or MSword to a repository type area of the site There is a 'files' area that does this. - compatible with some form of on site search engine You can run one of the scripts via crontab that will update it's index nightly so that the search feature works. - relatively easy to backup I believe everything is stored on mysql, so a simple mysql database dump will give you a file you can back up. The images and the files may be stored elsewhere on the site. So, you can just do a recursive download of the whole site and get everything stored there, along with your configuration changes. - works on a shared hosting type set-up ie does not require a dedicated server It works best on a server that you have access to edit the apache virtual host entry, as it will use mod_rewrite to create easy to read paths. It will work on a non virtual host, or a virtual host you don't have access to by using the .htaccess file to configure it. All your documents will be mapped off the script that handles that type of document. The install documents explain this better. Using a host from one of their partners would be the easiest way to go. Desirable: - ability to upload a news story or item for approval stage before publishing by author with higher level authority It supports pending articles in the ezArticle module - ability to automatically create "viewer poll" Polls can be attached to the site. - ability to automatically create a calendar of events type page that can be administered via the cms and generates pretty looking calendar pages on the site There is an ezCalendar module, there is a modification available that lets the public view the calendar. - includes own onsite search engine See the above answer about searching - includes features to make backup easy I don't know of any specific easy backup function, but it wouldn't be very hard to back up regardless. - perhaps a hosted solution They offer their own hosting, and hosting partners. http://shop.ez.no/shop/hosting/ As to your question about extending it, you can write add in modules for it. Each of the modules I've talked about are built on their core APIs" So, I believe this is your solution, as far as a feature/cost comparison table, there is none, since it is free. If you need any further information or clarification, don;t hesitate, and we can expand upon any of the information here. Nenna-GA