Is there a freeware PHP package for a site of a local cultural
association, which offers the following:

- simple user interface
- easy to upload new content: schedules, programs for the next few
months, announcements, newsletters
- there are every now and then events. Photos are taken and it should be
easy to set up photo galleries about these events.
- Would be cool if everything was interlinked: you add an event to the
calendar with a description, then you have the option of sending an
invitation to all members by email, once the event is over you add the
photo gallery of the event. Events can be gatherings, meetings, outdoor
activities etc.
- periodic newsletters sent to members
- members database (this is nice to have, not essential)
- forum (also nice to have, not essential)
- search engine friendly

The current site of the club is here:
http://www.malaysiaclubbayern.de/

It has been done manually mainly with Frontpage. I'm taking it over now
and was wondering if there is something more sophisticated which
automates the process of content management and generation and offers a
better user interface.
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molonCANCEL [at] yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Is there a freeware PHP package for a site of a local cultural
| association, which offers the following:

there are tons. i found mamba to be the easiest/quickest to get up and
running.

btw, i prefer the english culture club...everyone else is just playing their
covers. ;^)

On Mar 24, 6:00 pm, Alfred Molon <alfred_molonCAN... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there a freeware PHP package for a site of a local cultural
> association, which offers the following:
>
> - simple user interface
> - easy to upload new content: schedules, programs for the next few
> months, announcements, newsletters
> - there are every now and then events. Photos are taken and it should be
> easy to set up photo galleries about these events.
> - Would be cool if everything was interlinked: you add an event to the
> calendar with a description, then you have the option of sending an
> invitation to all members by email, once the event is over you add the
> photo gallery of the event. Events can be gatherings, meetings, outdoor
> activities etc.
> - periodic newsletters sent to members
> - members database (this is nice to have, not essential)
> - forum (also nice to have, not essential)
> - search engine friendly
>
> The current site of the club is here:http://www.malaysiaclubbayern.de/
>
> It has been done manually mainly with Frontpage. I'm taking it over now
> and was wondering if there is something more sophisticated which
> automates the process of content management and generation and offers a
> better user interface.
> --
>
> Alfred Molonhttp://www.molon.de- Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

basically you need a cms for that type of functionality.

read about the cms packages available and pick one from here:

http://opensourcecms.com/

i recommend joomla or drupal.

Alfred Molon wrote:

> Is there a freeware PHP package for a site of a local cultural
> association

Look into groupserver.org. It's not PHP, but Python. It's very good though.

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In article <sQiNh.45$xQ7.27 [at] newsfe05.lga>, no.one [at] example.com says...
>
> there are tons. i found mamba to be the easiest/quickest to get up and
> running.

Do you perhaps mean mambo?
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

In article <1174781739.510360.65190 [at] y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
nickadeemus2002 [at] gmail.com says...

> http://opensourcecms.com/
>
> i recommend joomla or drupal.

I downloaded joomla and will give it a try. Hopefully it's not overkill.
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

In article <hvrhd4-j4c.ln1 [at] ophelia.g5n.co.uk>, usenet200703
[at] tobyinkster.co.uk says...

> Look into groupserver.org. It's not PHP, but Python. It's very good though.

What is Python?
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

Alfred Molon wrote:

> What is Python?

A snake or an object-oriented scripting language. Take your pick.

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Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
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"Alfred Molon" <alfred_molonCANCEL [at] yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| In article <sQiNh.45$xQ7.27 [at] newsfe05.lga>, no.one [at] example.com says...
| >
| > there are tons. i found mamba to be the easiest/quickest to get up and
| > running.
|
| Do you perhaps mean mambo?

what did i say? ah yes, i see...my typo.

In article <1174781739.510360.65190 [at] y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
nickadeemus2002 [at] gmail.com says...

> http://opensourcecms.com/
>
> i recommend joomla or drupal.

I gave a try to Joomla. But it does not have a photo gallery
functionality (i.e. attach photo galleries to events), has no forum, and
members cannot upload content. Or did I miss something?

If Joomla indeed does not offer these functionalities which other
package does?
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe

Alfred Molon wrote:
> In article <1174781739.510360.65190 [at] y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> nickadeemus2002 [at] gmail.com says...
>
> > http://opensourcecms.com/
> >
> > i recommend joomla or drupal.
>
> I gave a try to Joomla. But it does not have a photo gallery
> functionality (i.e. attach photo galleries to events), has no forum, and
> members cannot upload content. Or did I miss something?
>
> If Joomla indeed does not offer these functionalities which other
> package does?
I know Mambo the software that Joomla was kind of built out of (when
Mambo was no-longer being worked on, did have a plug-in for a gallery.
It was quite good as well. Joomla should have a similar thing. From
memory members should be able to upload content in Joomla, they could
in Mambo. The thing I don't like about the CMS packages is that they
are hard to customize.
I think that PHP Nuke might be what you want in the pre-fab CMS's
though. Although I did not think a lot of it when I tested it out, it
seamed very low on features and it was not as user friendly as Mambo /
Joomla.
I hope that helps.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.cjb.cc

Alfred Molon wrote:

> In article <1174781739.510360.65190 [at] y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> nickadeemus2002 [at] gmail.com says...
>
>> http://opensourcecms.com/
>>
>> i recommend joomla or drupal.
>
> I gave a try to Joomla. But it does not have a photo gallery
> functionality (i.e. attach photo galleries to events),

http://extensions.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&task =listcats&cat_id=1779&Itemid=35

> has no forum,

http://extensions.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_mtree&task =listcats&cat_id=1778&Itemid=35

> and members cannot upload content.

Page 33 of the User Manual:
http://help.joomla.org/images/User_manual/user_manual_v1%200 %201_10%2021%2006.pdf

If you mean upload files to some kind of repository, there's Docman:
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task ,viewlink/link_id,82/Itemid,35/

> Or did I miss something?

If/when you find 3rd party extensions you're interested in, best also
have a look here to check for security issues:
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,101240.0.html


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