PHP Programming Language - Cultural View

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It consistently ranks as Top 5 CMS in the Open Source CMS Awards organized by Packt Publishing. In 2008 it
ranked Top 5 in Best PHP Open Source CMS [10] , and was Top-5 finalist in 2009 Best Overall CMS Award
category. [11] Onokazu, a founder of XOOPS, won the title as one of "Open Source CMS Most Valued People" at the
2008 Packt awards. [12] , and Taiwen Jiang, the current Lead Developer, won the same award in 2009.
Key features
Community
Database
Because XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) the growth and
development of XOOPS is dependent on the contributions of a worldwide community effort.
XOOPS uses a relational database (currently MySQL) to store data required for running a web-based content
management system.
Advanced access control layer
Administrators have the ability to grant specific groups of users specific access rights to content and features
such as edit, delete, upload, add attachments, publish content, and so on.
Modularized
Modules can be installed, uninstalled, activated, and deactivated using the module administration system.
Core features usable by modules
XOOPS possess a number of core features that can be used by modules like permissions, comments,
notifications and blocks features.
Personalization
Administrators have the ability to set specific permissions for user access and control of individual elements of
their websites.
User Management
The ability to search for users by various criteria, send email and private messages to users through a
template-based messaging system.
International language support
The XOOPS community has official support sites around the world for non-English-speaking users.
Additionally XOOPS itself supports multi-byte character sets for languages that use characters not in the Latin
alphabet, for example Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc. The multi-language support
is also available on the PDF generation feature provided by the TCPDF library.
Theme-based skinnable interface
Templates
XOOPS uses themes for page presentation. Both administrators and users can change the look of the entire
web site by selecting from available themes.
XOOPS uses the Smarty templating engine which allows many benefits such as easier separation between
business logic and presentation logic as well as content caching.
Built-in LDAP authentication
Some SEO add-ons
A number of XOOPS modules contain features to facilitate the indexing of a website in search engines, like
metatags, title tags and occasionally some URL rewriting. However, XOOPS does not give its users full
control over their URLs. Where URL rewriting is possible, XOOPS often uses redirects that may confuse