About SyntaxCMS

For the past eight years Forum One has provided innovative online solutions to policy and research focused organizations. SyntaxCMS is a direct result of this experience. It is designed to simplify content publishing, ease the management of content relationships, accelerate custom Web development, and encourage reuse of site components.

Built on a PHP/MySQL architecture, SyntaxCMS has been released under the Common Public License. Project coordination and communication with the developer community is available at http://syntax-cms.tigris.org and http://syntaxblog.forumone.com

For Content Managers and Creators

  • Create and edit site content online.
  • Approve content before publishing to web.
  • Set content items to publish/expire at a given time
  • Build complex site hierarchies using sections to organize content without creating HTML or template files.
  • Restrict access and actions to content types by groups of users.

For Developers

  • Define new content types on-the-fly. SyntaxCMS automatically provides forms for adding and editing content and base classes for working with content types in PHP code.
  • Use the Collections and Filters API to query the database for matching objects without having to write SQL.
  • Customize the look and layout of any part of the site using PHP

Background

SyntaxCMS has been used by Forum One Communications as an in-house solution for delivering dynamic, easy-to-manage websites for over two years. Parts of the project have always been open source, previously hosted on sourceforge, but this is the first release of the entire CMS package. During this time, the SyntaxCMS platform has been tested, refined, and used in production environments for various clients.

Resources

The development team has an active blog at blog.syntaxcms.org