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e107
The open source content management system e107. This program is great for a timely set up of a website or even for community portals. A portal when talking about the web means that the web gives personalized capabilities to the visitors of the site. These portals can give out applications and middleware and hardware and give services from many different places. The e107 0.70 was first released in January 2006, and then version e107 0.7.1 was released again in January. Then in February 2006 0.7.2, May 2006 saw 0.7.3, 0.7.4 and 0.7.5. November 2006 was 0.7.6, December 0.7.7 and the latest was February 2007 0.7.8.
This program was created to use PHP and a database through MySQL. The program does have support that holds many different languages and you can download it like Drupal. The name comes from the simple fact that the creator of e107, was working on his 7th project and just simply named it e107. Not many people know this but the code for e107 was borrowed from the code that was used on the LiteStep website. The e107 was recently nominated in 2006 as one of five finalists in the Packt Open Source Content Management System Award.
Some of the award nominated features the e107 has to offer users of content management software are that is has a high performance file based caching. It is a very easy to use program that allows you to create your own template. It has a legitimate XHTML 1.1 Output. It also has a very easy to use Admin system. That is one of the most common complaints of users of CMS that the admin system is too complicated to use and users get frustrated and then try to find something easier to use.
There is a lot of praise for the e107 and the features we just mentioned are just some of the great things about the program but there are some requirements that your system will need in order to work the e107 with their system. These are not criticisms of the system but it can only be used with MySQL of 3.22 version or newer and PHP version 4.3.0 or above.
It should be noted that the PHP should be set up with support for the MySQL in order to run the e107 without a hitch. The creator recommends that Apache be used for using the e107 but any server that can work with PHP or MySQL should be ok to use. So unless you have any of the following then the e107 will not work on your system.
The e107 CMS has its problems like other CMS software does but these concerns are being addressed and with every release there are more and more enhancements being made and more bug fixes. They are still a relatively new content management system. There are going to be glitches and there are going to be many versions of the main product. But that is what makes the product and the creator good. They address the customers concern and they take care of it by revamping the program. If you want to take a better look at the software and what the program can do in depth. Check out their official site, it is e107.org.
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