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Hey, I'm looking at making a web site for hosting 3rd party UI files for an online game. Similar to http://www.eqinterface.com/.

EQInterface was nice and all, but they never did regulate submissions very well, and a lot of them are quite buggy.

Would anyone experienced with CMS care to offer me suggestions? The features that I absolutely must have are: file and image hosting, seamlessly integrated into a single submission page. they submit a file, include a screenshot of it, and the system creates a new page for it for staff to look at and either approve, making the page accessable to other users, or denied, and removed.

I also need a forum, I'm most familiar with phpBB, so a wrapper to phpBB would be good enough. If it could be possible to tie website and forum registration together somehow, that would probably be even better.

A video section of the site might also be nice, but not essential.

I'm presently looking at phpWebSite, it looks like it might be comparatively easy to learn, and plenty powerful enough for the task, possibly with existing modules already available for my needs. (I know they've got a phpBB wrapper, not sure if it can integrate website and forums registration or not. If not, there is also another module for a forum integrated into the CMS.).

One problem I am going to run into is that I have no experience with modern website building. good 'ol HTML 4.0, not even XHTML, and definitely not PHP or ASP. Your recommendations please

I don't think it gets any better than Dragonfly CMS:

http://www.cpgnuke.com/

whoa, thanks for that link man, it has exactly the features i need. even including a downloads module that could quite possibly be hacked to become the submissions system that i need.

See also the wonderful Joomla, a fork of mambo : http://www.joomla.org/

And if you want to try others CMS before install : http://opensourcecms.com/ (there is a nice list of CMS to try, enjoy)

i'm already going with Dragonfly CMS, it has the features i need already available without requiring me to find someone to hack it for me. joomla does not have what's needed, doesn't even come close.

I also recommended Joomla... I used it, and I think it's great CMS

bugalinux wrote:See also the wonderful Joomla, a fork of mambo : http://www.joomla.org/

And if you want to try others CMS before install : http://opensourcecms.com/ (there is a nice list of CMS to try, enjoy)

Bugalinux is right about http://opensourcecms.com/ It offers a huge list of all the open source cms options and makes it very easy to sample each option. It is updated rather frequently and lets you do whatever you want to each sample.

You can choose PHPnuke and make a community of it all. if you want to have your own design(theme) they are good guides of how you can make the site a PHPtheme

Not done this myself but i've seen and heard of people doing it!

Good Luck

My personal favourite is cmsmadesimple. It really does a good job at staying out of the way while at the same time providing useful functionality and such.

trick wrote:My personal favourite is cmsmadesimple. It really does a good job at staying out of the way while at the same time providing useful functionality and such.

Thats the system where they store all the info in files instead of databases right?

EUR1LEC wrote:

trick wrote:My personal favourite is cmsmadesimple. It really does a good job at staying out of the way while at the same time providing useful functionality and such.

Thats the system where they store all the info in files instead of databases right?

Not at all. It's the other way around. There's only a small config file that's not in the database. Just about everthing else is stuck in there. The exception is media stuff like images and other files.

Definetly recommend Joomla. Massive user base with tons of modules (components) and modifications, both free and commercial.

It's really a geat CMS, and urge you to check it out.

Also check out plone at http://www.plone.org. Pretty strong CMS software with a large IRC following on freenode.[/url]