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Frog CMS 71
Frog CMS
Developer(s)
Philippe Archambault [1] and dev team
Stable release 0.9.5 / April 26, 2009
Operating
system
Cross-platform
Type CMS/Blog software
License GPL v.3
Website
Frog CMS [2]
Frog CMS is an open source content management system originally developed by the company Philippe
Archambault. The design decision taken from its start was to use PHP5 as the language for the software, along with a
MySQL database backend, although it also has support for SQLite (version 3). It is a port of the Ruby on Rails CMS
known as Radiant, although Frog has begun to take its own development direction.
History
Attracted to the Radiant CMS system, Archambault set about to write a PHP equivalent. The first name given to the
project was "phpRadiant", [3] although by February 2007 it was renamed "Frog" after consultation with the PHP
team. [4]
Work began in December 2006, and a first functioning public beta was released in January 2007. [5] During 2008,
Archambault expanded the development team. [6] The 0.9.5 release marked a licensing change, from the MIT license
of previous versions, to the current GPL v.3 license. The target of a version 1.0 release by January 2008 was not met,
but development continues with a stable 0.9.5 release (April 2009).
Features
Frog CMS offers the common advantages being based on the well-known PHP/mySQL pair. Resisting the
temptation to develop its own arcane scripting system, PHP is available directly to developers, but may be hidden
from users. It also makes use of an "Extra Light PHP Framework" to provide some commonly used functions to the
CMS. Otherwise, its main features include:
• simple hierarchical structured page creation and navigation
• drag-and-drop page re-ordering
• styles and metadata assigned globally or on a per-page basis
• flexible page content with reusable "snippets" (header, footer), or sidebar, or extended (custom fields) content
• lightweight core with many functions available as "plugins", including file-management, comment forms, Textile
and Markdown support, and database connectivity via PDO [7] (required for use with SQLite); user-contributed
plugins include the TinyMCE and FCKeditor wysiwyg editors, gallery, and lightbox-style image display
• user management, allowing three levels of access ("Administrator" = full site access; "Developer" = complete
access except to the "User" module; "Editor" = access only to unprotected pages) to the backend; pages can be
selectively "protected" from those with "Editor" rights
• built-in CSS editing