Overview
20th May 2008 - SCMS version 0.5 Beta released
SCMS Version 0.5b is the first beta version to be made available, and addresses a number of security and usability issues with version 0.4a as well as adding the ability to create directories.
You can download it in both .tar.gz and .zip formats from the SCMS download area on SourceForge.net. I'd be grateful for any testing feedback at craig@cwatson.org.
Project Overview
Sonica Content Management System (SCMS) is a web-based plain-text CMS, and is a personal project of freelance web developer Craig Watson while studying Computer Science at Aberystwyth University. It has been developed with the intention of being a test-bed for my PHP coding skills.
The main feature of SCMS is to allow online editing of files without the need for FTP access, therefore allowing the user to edit files from anywhere in the world. Programmed using the PHP back-end language and XHTML and CSS front-end technologies, SCMS can be run on any webserver that supports PHP.
By providing no WYSIWYG interface, SCMS will allow webmasters to edit their files remotely, cleanly and efficiently, with added features to create or delete files from the SCMS File Manager.
All code contained within SCMS is intended to validate to W3C XHTML and CSS standards to aid cross-browser compatability. The system is currently being tested on a Windows XP/Vista platform running the Apache web server and PHP 5.0, although as further testing is needed, it might be required to release beta versions of the system to test on various other server combinations.
