Want An Open Source PHP CMS? Here Are The Top 15!

Any developer worth his salt would know that a good CMS is often the key to doing well at a particular task.

PHP is a scripting language that is used for creating web pages. But creating a web page also requires a content management system (CMS) to control the flow of data. So, which one do you use? Here are the top 15!

1. DynPage

This is an editor that allows you to edit websites online and make content editable. It uses the well known CKeditor.

2. DynPG

This is a free CMS that actually stands for dynamic web pages. It has been created using PHP and MySQL.

3. Havalite

This is an open source lightweight CMS that is based on SQLite and PHP. 

4. Elxis

There aren't many multilingual content management systems that are available, but this is one. It supports UTF-8 encoding in its core level.

5. Kajona

This is one of the comparitively newer content management systems available out there, but it packs quite a few useful features.

6. Lemon CMS

This is another lightweight CMS. It is quite powerful too and is capable of making dynamic and search engine friendly web pages without requiring a database.

7. LitePublisher

This CMS brings you features like Wiki, blogs, image gallery, ticket system and audio/video player etc.

8. eliteCMS

This is a pretty powerful CMS that is very useful for users with comparitively less knowledge of PHP and HTML.

9. Mac’s CMS

This is an AJAX CMS that is based on XML and SQL Lite, which uses the Edit In Place editing concept.

10. PHP-Fusion

This is an open source CMS that has been created using PHP4 and is lightweight. It implements the MySQL database .

11. phpWarmSky

This is a complete CMS that comes with more than 40 modules and 10 themes. It is available for free.

12. PivotX

This is another free software CMS that can be used for creating websites that are updated frequently, like weblogs and journals.

13. EmbryoCore

This is a CMS that is meant specially for blogs. It has been written in PHP5. 

14. Pixie

This is a very simple CMS that is completely open source and is available for free.

15. Podcast Generator

As the name suggests, this is a free software that works as a PHP podcasting script.