Looking for a really light CMS that supports variables and a bit more

nemuro

Greetings,

I am looking for a really really lightweight CMS that has the following characteristics:

The CMS handles only the content, I want the template to be a separate HTML/CSS file which I can edit at any time while keeping the variables the CMS uses and not worrying about changing the order of them or the rest of the structure.
Menu, submenu, and active item variables.
ability to change, edit, move or delete a page through the structure of the menu
Able to have the content in more than two languages
Able to use some text variables for the menu ( main_active, main_inactive, submenu_active, submenu_inactive)
A text variable for the content and the footer

Optional:

custom variables that can be called in my "template.html"

I know that there are alot of CMS that do that and much more, but that is the problem, I want a CMS that does only those I listed here, and nothing more.

To illustrate what I seek, I attach a quick HTML code I did to show one of the ways I could arrange the layout.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<table width="800" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
  <tr>
    <td height="200" colspan="2">{$header}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td width="200" height="500" valign="top">
        <table width="180" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center">
          <tr>
            <td height="30">{$menu_item_active}</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td height="20" style="padding:0 0 0 20px;">{$submenu_item_active}</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td height="20" style="padding:0 0 0 20px;">{$submenu_item_inactive}</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td height="20" style="padding:0 0 0 20px;">{$submenu_item_inactive}</td>
          </tr>                    

          <tr>
            <td height="30">{$menu_item_inactive}</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td height="20" style="padding:0 0 0 20px;">{$submenu_item_inactive}</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td height="20" style="padding:0 0 0 20px;">{$submenu_item_inactive}</td>
          </tr>                                        

          <tr>
            <td height="30">{$menu_item_inactive}</td>
          </tr>
        </table>
    </td>
    <td width="600">&nbsp;</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td height="30" colspan="2">{$footer}</td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Thank you.

rincewind456

I want a CMS that does only those I listed here, and nothing more.

Then you will probably have to write your own. Even with the 1000's of cms' out there it is very unlikely you will find an exact fit.

nemuro

Yes, I suppose so, but I am a web designer, that is why I seek such a simple CMS with a few features.

After a few hours:

Tried Frog CMS - very good, but no language support
Tried Modx - a bit more complex, but no language support
Tried Bigace - very complex, even from the template building perspective, but with language support.

Any suggestions?

dagon

How about getting one custom made or a pre-made one altered and passing the cost on to the clients. Or keep testing ever one out their with fingers crossed.

nemuro

I thought of that, but I have under one week to spend, i haven't found anyone who can do that in one week.

johanafm

Check out Smarty, which is a template engine.

It has simple, but easy to use, language handling (though less easy to update/maintain language files). You put your language stuff in separate files like

[en_uk]
name = name
long_text = """
You can also include
<b>html</b> markup and even $variables in the conf
"""

[fr]
name = nom
long_text = """
Il est possible d'avoir
<b>html</b> markup, et m&#234;me des $variables dans le conf
"""

Load the conf

$smarty->config_load('file.conf', 'fr');

And then in your template

{#name#}

amax

check out Drupal, bit of a steep learning curve but you could have all that functionality with a theme set up in a day

nemuro

Thanks for the advice, but joomla and drupal are too much for my needs.

I need a stripped down CMS.