DevCMS

Overview

DevCMS is a flexible system for maintaining a MySQL-driven website. It provides a framework for integrating various types of data into a dynamic website, such as news articles, links to web resources, a repository of user-contributed projects, etc. If you have a large body of data you want to make available on the web, you may wish to check it out.

It's fully working and fairly bug free - it's the system that runs devdsp.net, a site with news for computer musicians. The current released version (0.9) contains the following applications out of the box:

• Articles/Announcements
• Web links
• User comments
• Forum
• User blogging
• Site-wide hierarchical categories system
• Flexible, multi-level admin system - users can be given admin rights seperately for each application

What it doesn't have:

• An easy to use installer (installing devcms isn't terribly difficult, however)
• A slick admin interface

DevCMS is written in perl, it can run under mod_perl (recommended) or as a CGI application, and it requires access to a MySQL database. Other than the perl DBI::MySQL module, DevCMS doesn't require *any* external modules.

If you want to extend DevCMS (you probably want to) it's extremely easy, provided you have a working knowledge of perl.

Currently Working On

Recently Added

Wish List

• Make the user pages a little more interesting
• A nice installer
• Mailing lost passwords. Should have done that a long time ago but I was too lazy
• Limit the number of results for searches shown on one page
• Regular expression searching.
• File uploads
• Assign categories to blogs - this isn't possible yet because it's slow
• Integrated RSS feed creation
• Integrated reading of RSS feeds
• Multilingual support - doubt this is ever going to happen, though, as it would require a complete rewrite of the core. And since I don't need this feature myself ...
• Shove everything into a perl module rather than use require statements.

Where to get it

You can grab your copy of DevCMS from its sourceforge page