Content Management Frameworks

1. Midgard

Midgard integrates world's most popular Open Source web development tools — MySQL, Apache and PHP — providing an environment for deploying powerful Internet based content management solutions.

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Operating System: Linux

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2. Apache Cocoon

Apache Cocoon is a web development framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based web development. Cocoon implements these concepts around the notion of 'component pipelines', each component on the pipeline specializing on a particular operation.

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: Apache Software License

Operating System: Unix, Windows

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3. AWF - Web framework for a CMS/portal/online group

AWF is a modern Open Source Content Management System and development framework based on PHP 5 and the Smarty template engine. It features support for multiple Web sites and languages, content versioning, caching, basic staging, community-portal functions, image upload and galleries...

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Operating System: UNIX compatible OS (like Linux, BSD, Solaris or OS X) and Apache HTTP server for production environments. Windows is experimental, but seems to work quite well.

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4. TYPOlight Content Management Framework

TYPOlight is a web based content management framework that can easily be extended. Major difference to other CMS: it is 100% accessible (frontend and backend) and strictly supports W3C standards. It also includes a powerful CSS engine to format contents.

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Operating System: All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)

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5. phpWebApp

phpWebApp is an application framework which makes easy and simple the task of building PHP web applications based on relational databases.

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Operating System: 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows Server 2003

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