Been testing multiple PHP CMS systems these past weeks. Joomla, WordPress, Mambo, MediaWiki, and Concrete5. They are all capable systems, they all have their quirks, and have performance issues on my development system.
This dev system is an AMD Duron 1.8 GHz with 512MB of RAM running Fedora Core 9 with the LAMP stack, and Apache Tomcat5 Java app server.
The one interesting difference is the administrator modules. Adding content is a breeze in Mambo, with granular control over most content attributes.
- MediaWiki: This is the software that powers Wikipedia. It is powerful, extensible, and is what it claims to be – a wiki engine. I guess it could be a CMS, but I am debating using this for general site management functionality with so many more powerful CMS platforms to choose from.
- Pros: A very powerful wiki platform that runs on any platform that supports MySQL and PHP.
- Cons: Having to edit the .php file that contains constants to result in changes to the pages.