Is this the best open source CMS ever created?
Meet TYPOlight, a powerful Web content management system that specializes in accessibility (back end and front end) and uses XHTML and CSS to generate W3C/WAI compliant pages.
Accessibility
A growing number of countries around the world have introduced legislation which either directly addresses the need for websites to be accessible to people with disabilities, or which addresses the more general requirement for people with disabilities not to be discriminated against. TYPOlight does not treat accessibility as just an additional feature and is thoroughly accessible.
Web 2.0
PHP 5 and Ajax are modern “Web 2.0″ technologies that you can find in a lot of contemporary applications. TYPOlight has a solid codebase built on the new object-oriented programming features of PHP 5 and can therefore be considered a future-proof software. To ensure back end accessibility, every Ajax feature includes a graceful fallback in case JavaScript is disabled.
Page features
- Different page types
- Multiple websites in one tree
- Manual or timed publication
- Hidden pages
- Password protect pages
Editing features
- Clipboard feature
- Edit multiple records
- Built-in rich text editor (TinyMCE)
- Different content elements and modules
- Multilingual spellchecker
- Insert tags (similar to server side includes)
- Manual or timed publication
File manager
- Multiple file uploads
- Image thumbnails and file preview
- Edit uploaded files with the source editor
- File operation permissions
- Copy, move, rename files or folders
- Delete folders recursively
Form generator
- Automatic input validation
- Store uploaded files on the server
- Send form data via e-mail
- Send uploaded files as e-mail attachment
Search engine
- Automatic page indexing
- Search indexing on protected pages
- Phrase search, wildcard search, AND/OR search
- Search result caching and pagination
Full feature list
- Intuitive user interface
- Accessible XHTML strict output
- Meets W3C/WAI requirements
- Web 2.0 support (mootools-based)
- Live update service
- Accessible administration area
- Multiple back end languages and themes
- Generates search engine friendly URLs
- Multi-language support
- Powerful permission system
- Versioning and undo management
- Advanced search and sorting options
- Front end output 100% template based
- Automatic e-mail encryption (spam protection)
- Supports SMTP in addition to PHP’s mail function
- Supports multiple websites in one tree
- Supports GZip compression
- Print articles as PDF
System features
- Open Source (LGPL)
- Web-based administration
- Platform independent
- Over 150 third party extensions
- Multilingual documentation
Really nice mate! Just tested it, it’s cool!
Christian Beikov
May 14, 2009 at 5:23 am
Could you tell us why it’s the “best open-source CMS ever created”? Why it’s better than Drupal for exemple.
Thank you
aubin
May 14, 2009 at 9:59 am
Really nice clean OO code. Soo much better than Joomla. Well done Leo.
Greg
May 14, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Hi aubin,
Drupal is not a bad CMS, specially if you are developing small sites. Drupal modules are very easy to install and they work out-of-the-box. However, the admin interface is not very intuitive. Also, the CSS, template and PHP files are all mixed together, and they are very difficult to edit, due to the fact that they have weird extensions, like .module for example. The problem with this is that text editors treat files with unknown extensions as text files. And finally, extending and maintaining procedural code is not an easy task.
Federico
May 14, 2009 at 9:30 pm
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May 20, 2009 at 6:51 am
Let me tell you why this is not better than Drupal in one word: Modules.
Drupal has hundreds of modules available that allows you to create whatever you can think of, and if it doesn’t exist, there is a Content Creation Kit (CCK) for you to create your own stuff.
I saw this CMS looking for the best of them all and even though Federico is right when he says that is not an easy task to maintain procedural code, they have their reason why they did it that way.
If you have any other CMS to show me, I will be happy to see it.
Jorge
May 22, 2009 at 8:43 pm
I use Drupal because I like some of the concepts which I can not find on other CMS’. For instance, there is no separation between Front End and Back End in Drupal. I see no point at all in separating them. But all lot of CMS’ including TYPOLight are doing it.
But that is about the concept. About the support from the developer community, I think Drupal is at the bottom of the list. I think TYPOLight is better in this respect.
Anto
June 9, 2009 at 3:15 pm
i used typolight during 2 years but i’m not sure it is the best cms created. it has some good points like ‘content elements’, something leo borrowed from typo3 and an accessible backend. But there’s a lot of things i dislike:
o- it’s _not_ a community driven project
o- it required an ugly signature in the source code (like typo3, phpwcms..)
o- leo’s ask for denouncement: http://www.typolight.org/forum/message/50894.html is the point where i decided to no more use this piece of code
o- the core is too feature rich, too heavy for simple website and it not scales well for larger ones
alphonse
August 10, 2009 at 8:24 am
Typo3 uses old approach. Every day more and more popularity get the new way to manage the content, when all pages you can build from blocks.
Mangirdas Skripka
September 17, 2009 at 9:04 am
I’ve seen a demo of a CMS that is supposed to be launched in the next weeks which is just amazing. It’s clealy the next generation of CMS, a very intuitive interface, all the design in drag and drop, automatic keywords detections for SEO, online image editing, it is just amazing, they declare to be able to realize very complex sites fully customized in few hours and I trust them !!!
I know that the demo is reserved to beta testers right now but its far beyond everything I’ve ever seen. And by the way includes already all the features you mention plus even more !
jean
September 24, 2009 at 5:31 am
Hi all,
if you like typolight but not the way it is managed, you may want to join the first attempt to fork it.
René moser began a project on github:
http://github.com/opentypolight
here is the beginning of a roadmap:
http://twitter.com/opentypolight
Peter
October 1, 2009 at 8:20 am
@ jean
what is the name of this new CMS you talked about
I would be very interested to have more informations
Thanks
Ann
October 9, 2009 at 6:13 am
@Peter Thanks mate
Federico
October 9, 2009 at 9:09 am
Hi Federico,
you seemed very enthousiastic, a few months back, about typolight. And what about now are you still thinnking it’s the best cms ever created? did you use or are you still using it? if not, what is your php choice for this kind of software.
i’m asking you, because your reading is, for me, still very inspiring.
thanks for your answers
Ann
November 11, 2009 at 2:56 pm