CMS Critic: Symphony CMS is a beautifully minimal PHP+MySQL-based open source content management system that uses XML and XSLT as its backbone.

On the surface, Symphony is similar in function to ExpressionEngine, Textpattern, WordPress, or Drupal. While Symphony is certainly capable of running a standard website or blog, its conceptual elegance and focus on data structures puts it in a unique position, straddling the line between a CMS and a full web application framework such as Django or Ruby on Rails.

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We are working hard to release TomatoCMS 2.0.7 with new features and new interface.

Here some new feature will available in TomatoCMS 2.0.7

Inserting tracker/counter code (SEO module)

TomatoCMS already supports inserting Google Analytic tracker code to your website via gatracker hook.

Also, this plugin allows user to insert tracker code of most popular analytic systems, such as:

• Google Analytic
• Hitstats

Supports Google Webmaster Tools (SEO module)

If you want Google search engine to crawl data on your site, you have to register the site with Google Webmaster Tools.

Shows some Google Analytic reports (SEO module)

In next TomatoCMS 2.0.7, we are going to use Google Analytic API to show some popular reports in chart.

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• Charset: Allows user to configure charset for website:

• Selecting thumbnails: In article adding/editing page, shows all available thumbnail images after uploading the image

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As much as I talk about Drupal here at CMS Report, I often don’t talk about Drupal point releases that provide solely security and bug fixes and no new features. Every once in awhile though there is a new version of Drupal 6 that has been especially polished by Drupal’s developers. Drupal 6.17 is one of those releases which contain significant changes I think are worthy a mention.

I’m probably most excited about the improvements made in Drupal 6 for better PHP 5.3 compatibility. A couple weeks ago I tried upgrading my server to PHP 5.3 and there were just too many annoying errors showing up in the Drupal 6 system logs.  I’m hoping with Drupal 6.17, I have better luck this time around (currently running this Drupal 6 sites with PHP 5.3).

With over 55 patches committed to improve Drupal 6, the following are the highlights of changes included in Drupal 6.17:

• Improvements of session cookie handling
• Better processing of big XML-RPC payload
• Improved PostgreSQL compatibility
• Better PHP 5.3 and PHP 4 compatibility (my fingers are crossed)
• Improved Japanese support in search module
• Better browser compatibility of CSS and JS aggregation
• Improved logging for login failures
• An incompatibility of Drupal 6.16’s new lock subsystem with some contributed modules was also resolved

The latest version of Drupal may be downloaded from the project page at Drupal.org. Whether you’re new to Drupal or currently maintaining a Drupal site, this latest release of Drupal is a clear indication that there is plenty of life and plenty of development taking place with the Drupal 6 release. Now what other Drupal 6 sites do I have that still need this upgrade to Drupal 6.17.

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Packt is pleased to announce Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook, a new book that helps Magento developers solve real-world Magento sales problems with the help of simple and effective recipes. Written by William Rice, this book is part of Packt’s Cookbook series containing recipes with a carefully organized sequence of instructions that helps completing tasks efficiently.

Magento is an Open Source, e-commerce web application that was created by Varien, and built on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is the hottest and most powerful e-commerce software and has gained popularity in a short period of time. Users can control the look, content and functionality of their e-commerce web site with the help of Magento’s powerful theming engine.

Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook will help developers increase revenue on their Magento websites by implementing proven sales tactics. It includes straightforward instructions for implementation and customization of the default Magento storefront. Readers will also learn about Magento’s directory structure which will help their store grow in scope and sophistication.

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“The core of the book is about writing a web site to sell things. Early on the author introduces the handful of patterns that will be used (MVC, Registry, Singleton) then immediately provides a runnable skeleton MVC framework that handles only Products and Categories. After that, it’s an incremental build chapter by chapter as the author adds features to the web site.”

Review can be found here.

Packt is pleased to announce Magento 1.3: PHP Developer’s Guide, a new book that helps PHP developers build applications that interface with the customer, product, and order data using Magento’s Core API. Written by Jamie Huskisson, this book is packed with examples for effective Magento development.

Magento is an Open Source, e-commerce web application that was created by Varien, and built on components of the Zend Framework. Magento is the hottest and most powerful e-commerce software and has gained popularity in a short period of time. Users can control the look, content and functionality of their e-commerce web site with the help of Magento’s powerful theming engine.

Magento 1.3: PHP Developer’s Guide will help developers extend and customize the Magento e-commerce system using PHP code. They will get familiar with the architecture and internal structure of Magento and learn about the best modules available. Developers can then build a shipping module for their Magento store to give users options for receiving their items once they have paid for them.

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The XOOPS Projects has released Alpha 2 of its upcoming XOOPS 2.5.0 release.

This new release a major redesign of the Administration module which has been AJAX-ed with jQuery. Some of the new features are breaking a new ground for XOOPS, like the visual placement of blocks, and we’re sure that the users will love them. The 2.5.0 release will be definitely the most innovative XOOPS  release in years.

Some of the major improvements/additions include new Help System for Admin and modules, MySQL Dump function, Tables Maintenance and Cache Clean-up in Maintenance, new Redirect messaging system, and Column sorting in tables. 

The focus on improved usability resulted in more visual administration using drag & drop, among them module ordering and block placement, and direct access to files for editing and folder management via a new File Manager. 

The developers also did a lot of code refactoring to use the latest XOOPS API. 

You can see a video with overview of the main new features on YouTube 

For more info and download links, please visit XOOPS Site

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Packt is pleased to announce a new book that teaches users to build dynamic, content-rich Flash CS3 and CS4 applications for Drupal 6. Written by Content Management expert, Travis Tidwell, Flash with Drupal helps users to integrate Flash applications with Drupal CMS.

Drupal is a free Open Source modular framework and Content Management System (CMS). Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Written in the programming language PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design means it is one of the most popular choices for creating a CMS website.

Users will learn about the evolution of a real Flash application designed for Drupal, and will be taken through a step-by-step approach to create and customize an embedded Flash application within Drupal. They will also learn about the important modules and asynchronous programming techniques that will make it easier to work with Flash in Drupal. The reader will also learn to build a custom voting service and create a Flash-driven 5-star voter for Drupal using the popular FiveStar module.

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One of the most requested solutions for a Open Text RedDot CMS project is a template for RSS feeds. And because many customers use PHP on their live sites it would be nice to already have it written in PHP. Hence today a solution for you based on PHP, brought to you by a German RedDot Developer. There is also a ASP version which you can find here.

Download the template here and before you use it donate $1 to keep this site up and running.

This template is a nice piece of work from the German RedDot Developer Ingo Hillebrand, also known as shift8.de. Simply insert the guids where required or replace them with your placeholder. Links to the specific page the feed points to have been realized with a dynamic list element because Render Tags can’t reference pages within a target container setup.

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