CMS Testing

[X96 Web Design]

* The links to the project website can sometimes be very slow... They will load, they may take up to 25 seconds to do so, though.


If you have a bit of free time on your hands, I'd love for at least one person to test the new version of my free CMS I developed. So far I think I'm the only one who actually uses it...

It's called X96 Panel, and can be downloaded from here: http://x96-panel.99k.org/download/beta

Minimum Specs:

• PHP 5
• MySQL 5
• Apache 2
• Create/edit/delete priviledges to the database

* Please read the Before You Begin documentation

I'd really appreciate some feedback on it.

Everyone who submits feedback will get their name on the thank-you list and anyone who contributes code will get their name on the credits page.

Thanks,
X96

[bluewalrus]

You have a test version on your site?

[X96 Web Design]

Not sure what you mean... I have a test install on my private home server at home.

Or do you mean that I'm offering the beta for download?

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[djr33]

I think he meant to ask if you have a page where we can test it, rather than installing it ourselves.
But for a CMS, it's difficult to test without having access to the server, etc., so downloading might make more sense.

[X96 Web Design]

Like a demo install...

I'm on it...

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[bluewalrus]

You replied before I finishied hah.

[X96 Web Design]

@bluewalrus: I hate it when that happens! :P

I set up a full-install of it here: http://x96-panel.99k.org/demo/

The user name and password is test

I'll work on a reset script that I can run to reset the database every couple days.

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[djr33]

Not bad. I just played with it quickly, but it reminds me of some of the old free sites (with a little more control) where you could add around 10 pages and put content in each.
Is there any way to include php in the pages? That's one thing I find limiting about CMS systems in general-- if I built my site with one, I'd want to be able to do things like connect to a database from within a page, etc.

[X96 Web Design]

Yea... I tried PHP, but PHP won't parse if it's already been called from a database.

I used to have a "free code" site, one of the codes was PHP-based and I used one of the very early X96 Panel versions; I remember the PHP wouldn't parse for the demo...

I'll fiddle with some stuff, though, and I may figure out a way...

Thanks!

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[djr33]

I understand that it is hard to setup. That is the main reason I don't use this sort of thing-- I need more than it can reasonably offer. In theory the major CMS projects like joomla offer most of this, but at the same time I'm not convinced it would be easy to keep coding as I do and embed it into a CMS.