alfred molon

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

steve

| 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. ;^)

chrisv

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.

toby a inkster

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

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alfred molon

In article <sQiNh.45$xQ7.27@newsfe05.lga>, no.one@example.com says...


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

alfred molon

In article <1174781739.510360.65190@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>,
nickadeemus2002@gmail.com says...

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

alfred molon

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

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

toby a inkster

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

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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
Geek of ~ HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python*/Apache/Linux

* = I'm getting there!

steve

| In article <sQiNh.45$xQ7.27@newsfe05.lga>, no.one@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.

alfred molon

In article <1174781739.510360.65190@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>,
nickadeemus2002@gmail.com says...

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