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Modules and functions
Posted February 7, 2007 by signex
- One list of top 10 most used modules. Which could be news, search, FEU, FCKeditor, etc.
- Functions list, all tested and stable functions ready to be imported for user defined tags.
- All other modules the same way it is now.
Finding a suitable webhost solution part 2/2.
Posted January 25, 2007 by signex
- Do they make backups on a second server
- Do they use an A brand for their hardware
- Are their spare parts on the spot in case off hardware failure
- Which datacentre are they located in, try to find reviews or opinions
- What Control panel do they use, Directadmin is cheaper then Cpanel
- Do they have phone support, or only mail support
- Do they have a 24/7 phone support when your server is down
- What is their write-off period for a server, 3 or 5 years can make a big difference
- Find reviews from other costumers
- Ask about the hardware they work with
- Ask how long they exist
- Try out mail and/or phone support, is it fast enough for you
- Guaranteed uptime? then what is the compensation when they fail
- Prices to good to be true? ....they are
- Ask uptime reports from the last 6 to 12 months
Finding a suitable webhost solution part 1/2.
Posted January 25, 2007 by signex
- A small personal website - Shared hosting will most likely fit your needs.
- A corporate website (small or medium sized) - Most company websites need to be more stable a need en more secure hosting platform, but sometimes a whole dedicated server just isn't worth it. Go for a VPS (Virtual private Server).
- A big community/corporate website - Go for a Dedicated machine just for you.
- Its very cheap.
- Less secure, if other people use broken scripts and a hacker gets in, most of the time the whole server gets defaced.
- Less stable your websites speed can be heavily affected by other users.
- Not really flexible in most cases.
- Cheaper then a Dedicated machine, more expensive then shared hosting.
- Way more stable then Shared web hosting, you'll get guaranteed RAM(on Linux vps'es you'll also get burstable RAM) and CPU. Therefore you are not affected by other vps users on the same server.
- More Secure, if another VPS on the same server crashes because of software errors or gets hacked, you`re not affected.
- More flexibility, you can choose your own Operating System, your own Control Panel, and basically all software you need.
- You can do remote Reboots, you can get SSH access (possible on shared hosting too, but not many web hosters will let you gain access).
- Pretty expensive, you cant divide Control panel licences to multiple users also.
- Most secure option .
- Most stable option.
- You can be in total control.
- Direct Admin ( easy of use, but not many function, its cheap though)
- Plesk ( not much experience with it but don't like the interface, more expensive then Direct Admin)
- Cpanel (Lots a functions but its really expensive)
- VHCS (Open source, when I found CPanel, this wasn't a stable control panel then, but have no recent experience)
- Helm / windows only ( No experience with that one at all)
- Apache when using Linux, or IIS when using Windows
- PHP 5.x (php 4 will run with the current cmsms but cmsms 2.0 will require php 5)
- MySQL Databases (only 1 Database is required for cmsms, but make sure you get at least 3 to 5, for testing other software, or beta's.)
- PHP safe mode OFF (This isn't required but Safe Mode ON in php, I think, really is annoying, and doesn't work well with CMSMS)
- PHP Memory Limit set to at least 16MB (default is 8MB, and this works well for simple CMSMS websites, but bigger ones with lots off modules will need at least 16MB)
- PHP Max Upload set at 10M (default is 2M, find a host which is willing to set this at 10M, again this isn't required though)
- GD or Imagemagick (not really required but very handy)
CMS Made Simple 1.0.4 Released!
Posted January 23, 2007 by Ted Kulp
Version 1.0.4 "Lanai" -- Jan 23 2007 ----------------- - Fixed issue with number of queries not showing up properly at the end of index.php - Fixed issues with breadcrumbs, including nodes not showing up and duplicate nodes showing - Fixed the warning that showed up in the 25 to 26 upgrade script if you didn't have any events - Fixed bug with installer where it doesn't write windows paths correctly - Fixed issue with Search where it would mess with the letter case when showing the highlighted textThanks!
Upgrade 1.0.2 to 1.0.3
Posted January 20, 2007 by 3dcandy
Number 41
Posted January 19, 2007 by Ted Kulp
Modules and Security
Posted January 19, 2007 by signex
CMS Made Simple 1.0.3 Released!
Posted January 18, 2007 by Ted Kulp
Version 1.0.3 "Kauai" -- Jan 18 2007 ----------------- - Fixed several non-permenant XSS vulnerabilities - Fixed issue with breadcrumbs plugin displaying root node multiple times - Fixed issue with multiple events being entered - Removed global references to $db from the admin and include.php - Added a "Modify Events" permission - Added event for "Change Group Permissions" - Added ability to select a file for the Link content type - Added ability to specify default boilerplate page content - Fixed print plugin output so that it's xhtml compliant - Added text direction to languages for suppot of languages like Hebrew and Arabic - Fixed issue where 2 installs on the same domain shared login sessions - Fixed issue with contact form with pretty_urls turned on - Fixed issue with LoadStylesheets() not loading the modified date - Changed search schema layout. Now allows for expiration dates on entries - Changed the icon for global content so that it doesn't look like the Gentoo logo - Fixed issue with expanding content in the content list when user didn't have the Add Page perission - Added catpcha module support to the contact_form plugin (you still need to manually install the Captcha module for this to work) - Added messages when admin log is cleared - Much much moreEnjoy!
CMS Made Simple is definitely growing up.
Posted January 18, 2007 by signex
CMSMS 1.0.2 Speed Issues
Posted January 18, 2007 by 3dcandy
Who is CMS Made Simple™ for?
For Editors
Maintain and update your site quickly and easily from anywhere with a web connection.
For Designers
Freedom to design the site you want. Straightforward templating that makes turning your designs into pages a breeze.
For Developers
A modular and extensible Content Management System that, with the Smarty templating engine, is easy to customize to create the sites and applications you want.
Latest Releases
CMS Made Simple Core 2.2.20
1 May 2024
User Guide 2 v1.5
2 April 2024
Review Manager v1.1.3
21 March 2024
AWSSDK 1.1.1
7 March 2024
AWSSDK 1.1.0
7 March 2024
AWSS3 1.1.1
7 March 2024
AWSS3 1.1.1
7 March 2024
Latest Forum Posts
Modules/Add-Ons • Re: Khronos group permissions
By "johnflan" at 1 May 2024 - 17:10
Modules/Add-Ons • Re: Khronos group permissions
By "DIGI3" at 1 May 2024 - 17:06
Modules/Add-Ons • Khronos group permissions
By "johnflan" at 1 May 2024 - 16:47
Announcements
CMS Made Simple 2.2.20 - Saguenay
Posted May 1, 2024 by digi3
Category: Releases
Hello fans of CMS Made Simple!
Today we are announcing the release of CMS Made Simple 2.2.20 - Saguenay, an incremental bug fix and stability release.
This version addresses the much awaited support to the most recent versions of PHP, making it stable with PHP 8.3.0+. We have also tested thoroughly its compatibility with mySQL 8.0+ and found no notable issues while running under these recent versions.
We have thus upgraded our template engine, Smarty, to version 4.5.2, the latest on the version 4 branch. While there is already a version 5 branch there are some important changes that will impact its use with CMSMS, most notably “dropping support for the use of unregistered callables (such as PHP functions) in templates” (see this discussion) which would break pretty much every CMSMS site on upgrade and would need a considerable effort from our users base to convert these templates back to usable ones. That doesn’t mean that there are no solutions, but instead that we are considering our options moving forward so that we can keep compatibility as much as possible, and breakage to a minimum, if any, when moving to Smarty 5.
In the meantime Smarty code will spam server PHP logs if not properly filtered. We recommend that you filter ~E_DEPRECATED on productions sites, to prevent these messages from crowding the logs as this won’t impact the site functionality in any way.
A side effect from using Smarty with PHP versions above 8.1 is that the regular PHAR installer will no longer work on Windows environments. We are addressing that issue but, in the meanwhile, the Expanded PHAR installer still works properly on all platforms and can be used to circumvent that issue.
As an added bonus, the PHAR installer and redirection loop issue, an ongoing obstacle that occurred on LiteSpeed web servers, seems to have been fixed with PHP versions 8.2.16 and above, so using the regular PHAR installer on these servers should no longer present any problem.
The UserGuide2 module, currently available as an add on, has become UserGuide and joined the core modules. It is released with a CMS Made Simple Foundation video course pre-installed, streaming a handful of lessons essential to an editor. These will show an editor how to use the file manager, the content manager and the news module as well as showing them how and where to get further help. For those not wishing to include this module, it can be deselected when doing an advanced mode install/upgrade.
Additionally, this version fixes many minor bugs that have been lingering over the past few years, as well as some usability and performance improvements. Please see the changelog for a full list of fixes and improvements.
As per the Dev Team's official support policy, the only versions of CMSMS currently supported are now v2.2.19 and v2.2.20. Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your time, and have fun using CMSMS!
CMS Made Simple 2.2.19 - Selkirk
Posted November 28, 2023 by digi3
Category: Releases
Today we are delighted to announce the release of CMS Made Simple v2.2.19 - Selkirk. v2.2.19 - Selkirk is an incremental bug fix and stability release.
For further detailed information, please see the changelog where there is a full list of fixes and improvements.
As per the Dev Team's official support policy, the only versions of CMSMS currently supported are now v2.2.18 and v2.2.19. Please upgrade at your earliest convenience.
Thank you for your continued support and use of CMS Made Simple!