andy206uk — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 22:57:22 +0000

Pmachine has a free option for non commercial use. and Expression Engine only has a trial version for free.

Suzanne — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:48:46 +0000

See that nice search box up there? Type in CMS and go. There are many threads here with many recommendations, some of which are free.

I don't know if this link will work, if so, I've done the work for you: http://www.webmaster-forums.net/search.php?searchid=13732

Just looking for something to build on...

jjinno — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:39:05 +0000

Nothing against PMachine, but for a single installation lisence, $150 - $200 is a little out of my budget. Any others you may have heard about?

I try at various times to sift through the rubbage at places like hotscripts.com, but I have rarely come across a general PHP/MySQL content system that was capable of doing anything more than a specified task or set of tasks.

Im not much of a UNIX guru, I just hold my own. Nor am I the greatest at visual layouts and eye-candy. But when it comes to hacking up code to getting it to do my bidding, I continually exceed even my own expectations. I just have a way of sitting down with a language and figuring out how to do stuff, even with no idea about syntax etc. (Well if error messages dont exist and there is no debugging capabilities Im done for - but hey)

Anywho...

- J

Suzanne — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:30:48 +0000

ExpressionEngine is PMachine's new CMS and apparently it rocks. I am installing it this week for my own site.

Check around here, there are a number of threads on this topic.

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 05 Jul 2004 12:40:01 +0000

I know some people swear by pmachine.com. I've never used it. Usually I do things the hard way, writing a crude engine from scratch on each project. Although, recently I've looked into using smarty.php.net to manage templates.