CMS Release

A while back I was asked to release the CMS that I had created so that people could see how it worked, and use some of the code. Well, I’ve collected everything together, stripped out any strictly personal pieces, and have packaged the result.

I must qualify this release with a few statements:

  • This is not a full-functioning CMS. There is no administration area, I put the data right into the database with phpMyAdmin.
  • This is an unsupported application. I won’t be able to help you fix any problems associated with trying to use any part of it.
  • Use at your own risk. While this CMS performed well for me, I can’t be responsible if it crashes anything on your server. Sorry.

So, that being said, the files are available here for download in ZIP format. I hope someone is able to learn something from this CMS. It was fun, and a challenge to build. The whole process was very much a learning experience as well. There are parts of it that I would love to code over again because I feel I could do a much cleaner job now. And there are some parts of which I’m particularly proud. All in all, it was a great app, but one that took too much of my time away from writing and maintaining the content of this site. It had a good life, and I hope somebody can take it on the next part of its journey.

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Published April 06, 2005 by:

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  1. Explain how it’s a CMS if there’s no M except phpMyAdmin?

    Topher Topher

    April 6th, 2005

  2. The system manages content, but for the front-end. It’s not the most flexible beast, but it wasn’t designed to be. It was designed to meet my needs. That’s it. But the “M” is still there.

    Steve Smith Steve Smith

    April 6th, 2005

  3. Cool. Mine is exactly the same way. :) I’ve been using it for a couple years, but I’m beginning to chafe. Being at a radio station, I have several people who need to update areas FAST, and don’t have time to mess with phpMyAdmin, so I’ve built several custom admin areas (FCKeditor rocks BTW). Since they’re hacks for specific people, they’re different, and I’m coming to grips with the fact that I’ll probably need to built something more standard.

    Topher Topher

    April 8th, 2005