CptAwesome — Thu, 04 May 2006 16:57:58 +0000

You might want to look at some old CGI/Perl CMSes, since they work about the same, but since they are based on an older language were written pre-database, greymatter is a perfect example of this. http://noahgrey.com/greysoft/ that's what I used when I started my personal site 5 years ago.

demonhale — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 03:30:01 +0000

and its sometimes a pain to backup a MYSQL Db for a small site... FTP copy works for no db... right pepe?

pepealayo — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 02:36:13 +0000

The reason is that I found a great free hosting 11w11.net and this hosting supports only php. That's it.

ablaye — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:00:03 +0000

Not sure what someone would want to a CMS without a database.
Most hosts give you a free MySQL database anyway so why not use it.

GDVS — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:23:06 +0000

VanillaBlog, MeshCMS, Xaraya, Typo, Trac, Toenda, PhpCms, and AngelineCMS are all capable of running database free. Some do use SQLite but as that's a flat file database built into PHP 5 I believe that counts. This Wikipedia page is a good place to get an idea of what CMSs require what database.

demonhale — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 03:41:06 +0000

Ok the difference is speed, using mysql or sql for management of contents in cms is faster, although if the sql database screws up, the site does too... and the second is you need special backup access to backup your sql Dbs, flatfile cms, uses text files to store data with special line markings etc. as decided by the designer, most flatfile cms work fast when theres a few content to query, as the size and content grows, the slower it gets, but then it can easily be FTP backed-up, but also you have to read through a bunch of code to manage it while on db, a query is jus made...

As for Cmsimple, it uses I guess flatfile, although not entirely, it doesnt use any DB, it uses php files saved independently and reloaded upon request of the main php file... it uses mce for editing and whatnots, a good cms I might say...

There are a lot of PHP progs that do not use a db, if you search at hotscripts, try to include the flatfile query string, like "guestbook flatfile" with or without spaces you can try and find several of what you are looking for...

pepealayo — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:30:19 +0000

I don't know exactly what you mean.
Cmsimple needs only a content file, this file has all the pages for your site.
Cmsimple divides this content in pages by using the tags .

Busy — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:52:18 +0000

Does it use a flat file?
Some hosts don't allow them these days (if it does) as they can take up a lot of resources