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Top 23 PHP Content Management Systems (CMS) Projects
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Magento
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Project mention: Contribute to Adobe's Open Source Magento 2 with Contributor License Agreement | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-02 -
You've convinced me to give it another shot. Another commenter also pointed out Drupal's complexities, which I should have realized, in retrospect.
I am also looking at October, which sounds like it checks some of my boxes, but we'll see. Thankfully, there is no time-table for this project, so I can try a few things out before we settle.
https://github.com/octobercms/october
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WooCommerce
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Platforms like WordPress combined with WooCommerce allow for seamless website and e-commerce management.
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PrestaShop
PrestaShop is the universal open-source software platform to build your e-commerce solution.
Project mention: Vvveb CMS alternatives - Medusa, Ghost, OpenCart, WordPress, and PrestaShop | libhunt.com/r/Vvveb | 2024-07-24Ecommerce platform alternative
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OpenCart
A free shopping cart system. OpenCart is an open source PHP-based online e-commerce solution.
Project mention: Vvveb CMS alternatives - Medusa, Ghost, OpenCart, WordPress, and PrestaShop | libhunt.com/r/Vvveb | 2024-07-24Ecommerce platform alternative
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use Joomla\CMS\Helper\LibraryHelper; use Joomla\CMS\Cache\Cache; /** * Function called before extension installation/update/removal procedure commences. * * @param string $type The type of change (install or discover_install, update, uninstall) * @param InstallerAdapter $adapter The adapter calling this method * * @return boolean True on success * * @since 1.0.0 */ public function preflight(string $type, InstallerAdapter $adapter): bool { if ($type == 'uninstall') { return true; } /** * * Joomla when updating extensions of the library type, it actually deletes them (along with the data in the database), * and then installs it again. * In order to avoid losing library data from the database, we are writing this crutch. * * @see https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/39360 * */ if ($type == 'update') { $lib_params = LibraryHelper::getParams('Webtolk/Amocrm'); $jconfig = $this->app->getConfig(); $options = array( 'defaultgroup' => 'wt_amo_crm_temp', 'caching' => true, 'cachebase' => $jconfig->get('cache_path'), 'storage' => $jconfig->get('cache_handler'), ); $cache = Cache::getInstance('', $options); $cache->store($lib_params, 'wt_amo_crm_temp'); } return true; }
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Bolt
Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL. (by bolt)
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Drupal
Verbatim mirror of the git.drupal.org repository for Drupal core. Please see the https://github.com/drupal/drupal#contributing. PRs are not accepted on GitHub.
Project mention: The 50 best open-source alternatives to popular SaaS software | dev.to | 2024-07-10GitHub: Drupal GitHub Repository
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Attendize
Attendize is an open-source ticket selling and event management platform built on Laravel.
Project mention: 25 Project Ideas from Beginner to Advanced with Open Source Contributions | dev.to | 2024-11-13View on GitHub
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Open Source POS
Open Source Point of Sale is a web based point of sale application written in PHP using CodeIgniter framework. It uses MySQL as the data back end and has a Bootstrap 3 based user interface.
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Pimcore
Core Framework for the Open Source Data & Experience Management Platform (PIM, MDM, CDP, DAM, DXP/CMS & Digital Commerce)
Project mention: 8 Open-Source Tools to grow your app and reach new markets! 🔥 | dev.to | 2024-10-11Star the Pimcore repository ⭐
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Project mention: Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-12-27
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Project mention: Show HN: Recommendarr – AI Driven Recommendations Based on Sonarr/Radarr Media | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-02
The best recommendation system I encountered was the "similar artists" cloud on what.cd on an artists page. Has never failed me.
https://github.com/WhatCD/Gazelle/blob/master/classes/artist...
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TYPO3
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Project mention: TYPO3: Open-Source Enterprise CMS for Robust Web Content Management | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-05 -
eLabFTW
:notebook: eLabFTW is the most popular open source electronic lab notebook for research labs.
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Backdrop CMS
Backdrop is a full-featured content management system that allows non-technical users to manage a wide variety of content. It can be used to create all kinds of websites including blogs, image galleries, social networks, intranets, and more.
Have you checked out Backdrop CMS? https://backdropcms.org/
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Thelia
Thelia is an open source tool for creating e-business websites and managing online content. Repo containing the new major version (v2)
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Project mention: Matt Mullenweg, Automattic's CEO, Seems Bound and Determined to Wreck WordPress | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-20
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
PHP Content Management Systems (CMS) discussion
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Content Management Systems (CMS) projects in PHP? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Bagisto | 17,430 |
| 2 | Magento | 11,744 |
| 3 | october | 11,083 |
| 4 | WooCommerce | 9,633 |
| 5 | PrestaShop | 8,429 |
| 6 | OpenCart | 7,689 |
| 7 | Joomla! | 4,859 |
| 8 | Bolt | 4,166 |
| 9 | Drupal | 4,137 |
| 10 | Attendize | 4,081 |
| 11 | Pico | 3,859 |
| 12 | Open Source POS | 3,600 |
| 13 | Pimcore | 3,509 |
| 14 | CraftCMS | 3,334 |
| 15 | Gazelle | 1,847 |
| 16 | MODX | 1,374 |
| 17 | Kirby | 1,367 |
| 18 | TYPO3 | 1,094 |
| 19 | eLabFTW | 1,070 |
| 20 | Backdrop CMS | 999 |
| 21 | ProcessWire | 969 |
| 22 | Thelia | 861 |
| 23 | Textpattern | 815 |
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