PHP MySql == CMS

Hi not sure again which forum to pop this in so went for the safe option, can anyone recomend a very good of the shelf CMS which uses PHP Mysql etc, there are loads out there and if people have used one before they feel is good i would love to know.

Cheers

Go to http://www.opensourcecms.com/, you can try different cms and blog system before you install it yourself.

Joomla was my choice amongst many, though there may be more out there at this stage. Seemed to be the biggest community as well

Cheers Guys ill look into them, one more qick question i tend to use custom built CMS's either i build them myself i have yet to look into free one's when are your guys views on custom built or free ones?

Cheers

I try to avoid re-inventing the wheel where ever possible...

..this is of course once the wheel has proved to be a safe reliable component and with reasonably good documentation, and suits the axel

My view is that a CMS is a very complicated thing. If you're up to the code skills and work (and wanting to do it for fun / learning is a very good reason), go for it. But there are lots of security and performance issues that will crop up that established CMS systems such ad Drupal and Joomla seem to have mastered already.

But whatever you do, forget about *nuke. They are all, by and large, junk. Geeklog is "nuke-like" if that's what you want, and it has a good rep as far as I've heard. But nuke sites are generally all cookie cutter butt-ugly wrecks.

I like the look of the Joomla one, ill get it downloaeded and have a fiddle..

Cheers Guys

You should really consider Drupal as well. It's better...

In what way Arty ...

I created my own CMS. I did it for the learning experience. It's not portable at all however. If I had to do it over again, I would have made it more general. But it works great for the tasks I use it for.

I said this once before here, that I think there is nothing wrong with specialized CMSs. I think that one of the usability, customization ease and management problems with CMSs comes from trying to be everything to everyone. Sure, you can make CMSs like Drupal and Mambo do just about anything, but do they do it well? Usually not across the board.

A while back, I was involved in writing the specifications for a CMS to manage medium size on-line editions of newspapers. We looked long and hard at of-the-shelf application suits that could be modified, but in the end opted for a custom solution for a perfect fit. It felt much better to have something that met our spacific needs rather than cobbling together something that sort of did what we wanted.