Open source CMS software

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Open source | No Comments »

Want to set up a database-driven website? Why not try an open source CMS system? Elliot Smith rolls his sleeves up and gets his hands dirty with five ... Read more..

Exponent CMS 0.9.6.3

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Open source | 1 Comment »

Exponent CMS 0.9.6.3 IT Pro Rating: Price: Free. Licence: GPL (GNU Public Licence) Company: Exponent Review Date: May 06 Pros: Cons: Verdict: A great system for end-users, with very powerful site management functionality via the web interface; ... Read more..

Joomla!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Open source | 1 Comment »

Joomla! Price: Free. Licence: GPL (GNU Public Licence) Company: Joomla! Review Date: May 06 Pros: Cons: Verdict: A good-looking system, suitable for building a simple content-managed site and fantastic for end users. But it's inflexible for ... Read more..

Typo3 v4.0

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Open source | 1 Comment »

Typo3 v4.0 IT Pro Rating: Price: Free. License: GPL (GNU Public Licence) Company: Typo3 Association Review Date: May 06 Pros: Cons: Verdict: A complex and unintuitive system, which offers little over the other systems reviewed here Read more..

Plone 2.1.2

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Open source | 1 Comment »

Plone 2.1.2 IT Pro Rating: Price: Free Company: Plone Review Date: May 06 Pros: Cons: Verdict: An extremely powerful and flexible content management platform, readily integrated with external systems; but with an extremely steep learning curve Read more..

Drupal 4.6.6

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Open source | No Comments »

Drupal 4.6.6 IT Pro Rating: Price: Free Company: Drupal Review Date: May 06 Pros: Cons: Verdict: A great base for bespoke web applications or community sites, but not for beginners The history of Drupal gives a good idea ... Read more..

15 Project Open Source Web Application

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Open source | 25 Comments »

1. WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at ... Read more..

Getting the domain name out of a URL

Monday, January 28th, 2008 Posted in PHP & MySQL | No Comments »

  <?php // get host name from URL preg_match('@^(?:http://)?([^/]+)@i', "http://www.php.net/index.html", $matches); $host = $matches[1]; // get last two segments of host name preg_match('/[^.]+\.[^.]+$/', $host, $matches); echo "domain name is: {$matches[0]}\n"; ?>     domain name is: php.net Read more..