Hi I've been working on a PHP CMS for some time now. It's called Ripe Website Manager and I have just recently uploaded some pages for it. Would anybody like to check it out and offer some feedback?

Although it's not concrete yet but the plan is to open source this project so if anyone would like to chip in with any help then get in contact.

Thanks

not a bad looking cms are you planning on offering a mod and theme pack with the release

Yup, doesn't look bad at all. I suggest you making some visitor tracking mods

Just recently got approved for sourceforge pages so I have set up my pages there now along with download of the current version.

not a bad looking cms are you planning on offering a mod and theme pack with the release

The system will have a modular style plug-in system and I have plenty of mods on my mind to be developed. You will start seeing various mod release soon.

A new theme/template design has just been completed and is visible on the site now. The CMS will come with a set of default designs to pick from. If you meant a different theme pack for the admin area then this will be available at a later date.

Yup, doesn't look bad at all. I suggest you making some visitor tracking mods

There is already a very basic visitor stats system in the current release. However it is very basic at the moment but one of the next things I will be working on is improving the stats. I have already got some cool flash graphs that I worked on previously so I just need to set it up.

Originally Posted by paaaaaaaaaa

There is already a very basic visitor stats system in the current release. However it is very basic at the moment but one of the next things I will be working on is improving the stats. I have already got some cool flash graphs that I worked on previously so I just need to set it up.

Perhaps you can tell me when your flash graphs are ready? I'm interested...

Looks interesting - i'll bookmark it and call in from time to time to monitor your progress. Cant help you too much as Im not that good at PHP, maybe when it is done though I can throw together a few themes/skins Obviously depends on how your styling system is setup though

Its very good!

When adding pages, people tend to work DOWNWARDS, so it might be a thought to add a 'save page' link at the bottom as well as the top?

Looks awesome...Ill definately look into this.

The only thing I can think of is adding a captcha module. (You may have already diddnt see one though.)

I'm glad everyone likes it so far.

feraira: Thats a very good point about people working downwards I will add a save button at the bottom as well as the top.

omnibus: Your right a captcha mod is not there yet. With all the horrible spam around it will be an extremely needed piece of work.

downliner: My template system is very easy to use. It's worked by having special tags inside your html template file. I'll soon be documenting the tags and what they do so hopefully I will start getting some designers interested in developing some templates.

A key thing I have done with this project is assign a BSD licence. This way designers can easily sell templates mods etc.

Thanks again for your comments the more I get the better this project will become.

I like the design and overall feel of the CMS. I feel like you should make the large images in the index.php admin page into links (just a thought).

Very good. Do you only offer MySQL support? Does it create a new file for every page or are those directories htaccesed? I plan on using this for some of my sites I should be making soon.
Great job.

Originally Posted by Mattmaul1992

Very good. Do you only offer MySQL support? Does it create a new file for every page or are those directories htaccesed? I plan on using this for some of my sites I should be making soon.
Great job.

Thanks. Yes so far just mySQL. There is no rush to get it working with others yet but it is a future plan.

I decided to make Ripe create new folders and very light weight index pages in the folders. The new version creates index files of only 130 - 150 bytes. I didn't want to take the htaccess because it's just extra effort for the general user to set up and also there are server issues, some servers don't do mod rewrite etc. My way just works.

It would be great if you use Ripe for your sites. Let me know when you use it as I will be making a showcase of Ripe sites when a few start dotting about.

I like the design and overall feel of the CMS. I feel like you should make the large images in the index.php admin page into links (just a thought).

Yeah it has always annoyed me that I can't click those images. Anyway there is a whole new back end design in the making which will be ready for version 0.9. This design will be a lot slicker and easier to use.

I'm looking for 0.9 to be ready in a couple weeks. The way the development has been going lately it should be possible but I want to make sure it's very stable and solid. Then back onto the features development for the big 1.0 release.