Cotonti

Cotonti is a modular open source content management system and content management framework powered by PHP and MySQL.

For an end-user Cotonti is a medium-featured content management system suitable for online communities, business and personal sites in first place, that can be extended for a variety of other site kinds: blogs, E-commerce, newspapers, gaming clans, corporate portals, etc.

From a developer's point of view it consists of a minimalistic content management framework and a set of modules implementing standard behavior for exact website types. Application logic is built in conventional scripting style relying on APIs and models provided by the framework and other modules.

A typical website setup is managed completely from a user front-end and administration backend and requires no coding skills. Custom websites may require PHP, SQL or HTML/CSS coding skills depending on type of a task: content markup, layout markup, application coding and localization procedures are completely differentiated from each other which is suitable for small to medium teams.

Through the years of its evolution Cotonti has become similar to Drupal in many of its design aspects such as procedural core, bootstrapping, modular architecture and basic features found in many other systems too. But its unique tendencies are towards a harvested framework and unbound customizability in both layout and behavior.