40+ Great PHP content management systems for your Website

PHP Content management systems (PHP CMS) are customizable plug and play scripts for organizing website content built on top of application frameworks and makes extensive reusable php code running on MySQL/PostgreSQL database powered by PHP.

Each is CMS is unique and code simplicity, skeleton, customizing with plugins, snippets to your needs are most important to consider before deciding on a CMS.

Lets take on some of the best CMS scripts,  you can use to kickstart your website.

1. WordPress

www.wordpress.org

WordPress is one of the most popular scalable CMS which initially started for blogs but now it can be used to create any kind of website with plugin or theme. The enormous simplicity of code, excellent codex documentation , wide user base are main reasons why wordpress is so popular out there. Deployment and configuration of wordpress can be done in a fly within few clicks.

• Category: Blog CMS
• License: GPL
• Platform: PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=88

2. Drupal

www.drupal.org

• Category: Websites and Applications
• License: GPL
•  Platform:   PHP and MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=191

3. Joomla

www.joomla.org

• Category: Websites and Applications
• License: GPL
•  Platform:   MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite
• Demo: http://demo.joomla.org/

4. Typo3

www.typo3.org

• Category: Websites and Applications
• License: GPL
•  Platform:   MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle.
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=66

5. vBulletin

http://www.vbulletin.com/

• Category: Forum CMS
• License: GPL
•  Platform:   MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle.
• Demo: http://www.vbulletin.com/vb5-trial/

6. Text Pattern

www.textpattern.com

Easy to use, simple and light weight content management system made for PHP

• Category: Light weight blog
• License: Free and open source
•  Platform:   MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle.
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=86

7. Concrete5

http://www.concrete5.org/

• Category: Simple & Lightweight
• License: Free and open source
•  Platform:   MySQL
• Demo: http://www.concrete5.org/about/trial/

8. Tango CMS

www.tangocms.org

• Category: Websites and content publishing
• License: GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://tangocms.org/demo

9. Redax Script

http://redaxscript.com

• Category: Ultra lightweight website engine.
• License: GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: n/a

10. CMS Made Simple

http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/

• Category: Light weight content publishing
• License: GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=9

11. Cushy CMS

www.cushycms.com

• Category: Light weight content publishing
• License: –
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: www.cushycms.com/en/static/demo

12. Pixie

http://www.getpixie.co.uk/

• Category: Light weight content publishing
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: www.cushycms.com/en/static/demo

13. PHP Fusion

http://www.php-fusion.co.uk

• Category: Light weight content publishing
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/demo/1/52/PHP-Fusion

14. Dolphin

http://www.boonex.com/dolphin

• Category: Social Networking
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://boonex.com/demo

15. Mambo CMS

http://www.mamboserver.com

• Category: Light weight content publishing
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://demo.mamboserver.com

16. B2Evolution

http://b2evolution.net/

• Category: Light weight content publishing
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://demo.b2evolution.net/

17. Frog CMS

http://www.madebyfrog.com/

• Category: Simplified content publishing
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL/ SQLite 3 with PDO
• Demo: http://www.madebyfrog.com/

18. MediaWiki

http://www.mediawiki.org

• Category: Wiki
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=153

19. Geeklog

http://www.geeklog.net/

• Category:  CMS Web
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://demo.geeklog.net/

20. MyBB

http://www.mybb.com/

• Category:  Forum
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=118&name=MyBB

21. TinyCMS

http://tinycms.designskate.com/

TinyCMS is an open source, lightweight PHP CMS script

• Category:  Simple No database CMS
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://tinycms.designskate.com/?page=demo

22. Wolf CMS

http://www.wolfcms.org/

• Category:  Lightweight and fast CMS
• License:  GPL
•  Platform:   MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=334
  

23. PHP Fox

http://www.phpfox.com

• Category:   Social Networking
• License: Paid
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://phpfox.com/demo

24. Coppermine Gallery

http://coppermine-gallery.net/

• Category:   Photo Gallery
• License: GPL
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg15x/

25. Quick CMS

http://opensolution.org

• Category:   CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://demo.opensolution.org/Quick.Cms/?our-offer,3

26. Pligg

http://pligg.com/

• Category:   Digg style voting
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://pligg.com/demo

27. Contao

http://www.contao.org

• Category:   CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://demo.contao.org/contao/

28. Zen-cart

http://www.zen-cart.com

• Category:   Shopping/eCommerce
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://demo.zen-cart.cn/

29. phpWebsite

https://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/

• Category:   Shopping/eCommerce
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=56

30. phpBB

http://www.phpbb.com

• Category:   Bulletin board
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: https://www.phpbb.com/demo/

31.  4Images

http://www.4homepages.de/

• Category:   Image Gallery CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.4homepages.de/4images/demo.php

32. Open Classifieds

http://open-classifieds.com/

• Category:   Classifieds CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://open-classifieds.com/demo/

33. Moodle

https://moodle.org/

• Category:   Learning course CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL/PostGRE/Oracle/MSSql
• Demo: http://demo.moodle.net/

34. Jetbox

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jetboxone/

• Category:   CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: n/a

35. Habari Project

http://habariproject.org/en/

• Category:   Blog CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://demo.habariproject.org/

36. Phorum

http://www.phorum.org/

• Category:   Forum CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.phorum.org/demo/

37. Vanilla

http://vanillaforums.org/

• Category:   Forum CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo:  http://www.forum-software.org/demo/vanilla

38. Serendipity

http://www.s9y.org/

• Category:   Blog
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL, PostgreSQL, MySQLi, SQLite
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=84

39. Silverstripe

http://www.silverstripe.com/

• Category:   CMS/Framework
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle
• Demo: http://ss3.demo.silverstripe.org/

40.  e107

http://e107.org/

• Category:   CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=19

41. Processwire

http://processwire.com/

• Category:   CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://processwire.com/demo/

42. PivotX

http://pivotx.net/

• Category:   Blog CMS
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://pivotx.net/page/screenshotspage

43. Prestashop

http://www.prestashop.com/

• Category:   eCommerce shop
• License: Free
•  Platform:   PHP/MySQL
• Demo: http://www.prestashop.com/en/demo