Pluck offers the flat file goods

Pluck seems to be a fine flat file PHP content management system. I had trouble installing it last year, but gave it another try last week, and it installed without any trouble.The control panel is very nice - both clean and logical. And it's fast. Pluck is designed as a CMS, but comes with a blog module built in, along with a gallery module. You can create a number of blogs and galleries with just a few clicks each. The script also includes a statistics area, but the stats are limited to just two - total site "hits" (actually, page views) and...

Categories: Flat File, Pluck

Etomite - Day two

After a couple of looks at my Etomite installation, I still like it.One very interesting thing I discovered is Etomite's 'Edit Pages' function. Enter that area of the control panel, and you see a folder display of everything on your server. That's right, not just the Etomite files, but every file on your entire server. Using Etomite, I can view all the files in my Drupal, Joomla and other folders. Not only that, but you can edit most of them online. There's a built-in "safety" feature that prevents you from editing a few key types of files, including...

Categories: Etomite, online editing

Etomite

I installed Etomite on my test server last night. It's a fairly mature PHP and MySQL content management system. The install went smoothly. The installer tried, but could not create the database, so I did that manually with PHPMyAdmin. Then the installer completed its tasks in less than a minute.At first glance, Etomite looks good. The admin interface is clean and is well organized. The default page template looks okay. It runs quickly. Adding a new page was fast, and it automatically appeared in the main public menu. It has some built-in search...

Categories: Etomite, MySQL

Pivot

I have had high hopes for the new version of Pivot, a blog engine that has a fairly long history. It has used flat files for storage, so it requires only PHP to work on any server.I liked the test installation of version 1.45 I played with last year. But it was slow. The public pages were slow to load, and the administration pages were brutally slow.The developers have been working on a major update for several months, and I tried version X alpha 3 earlier this spring. It was a improvement over version 1.45, but not enough to get me excited.This...

Categories: Flat File, MySQL, pivot

WordPress 2.5 is terrific

WordPress is one of the most-used blog script systems in the English-speaking world. A new version, 2.5, has just been released. You can get a copy to install on your own server at www.wordpress.org. A companion site, www.wordpress.com, based on the same technology, is a free blog host service not unlike Blogger.I've messed around with earlier versions of WordPress during the last year, and like it. It has proven stable, it has a large number of available plug-ins, and there are hundreds of templates for it, some of them very nice. This new version...

Categories: MySQL, WordPress