Introduction

CMME, "Content Management Made Easy" is an open source web content management system that aims to be easy to use and doesn't have a lot of requirements while still allowing for reasonable flexibility. CMME is written in PHP5 and completely file based, it doesn't need a database.

CMME is one of the few content management systems that doesn't need a database and has been written for people that have hosting packages without a database or don't know how to configure one. It is very easy to install, not requiring much resources of the hosting platform at all. CMME has been deliberately kept simple, not only in usage, but also in it's software.

For a user, CMME works a lot like a wiki. There's no difficult administrative module. Creating a link in a page to a new page is enough to start that new page. Pages are created using page parts that can be marked up usng a page template. Each page part is formatted by a plugin. There are a few plugins that can be used, e.g. plugins for:

• WYSIWYG content editing.
• static HTML (for advanced users)
• weblog functionality.
• counting visitors and keeping statistics.

Using special tags in the WYSIWYG markup, it is possible to include page parts in other pages; generate rss lists in a page, using MathML or include program code to be marked up in a page.

Where to go from here

You'll want to know more about installation. After that, you'll want to know how to edit a page. For more advanced usage of CMME you'll want to know about administration and page templates.