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I would check out http://www.opensourcecms.com They have a list of hundereds of CMS systems written in PHP and MySQL. The great thing about that site to is you can demo any of them live on the site without having to actually install them. Then every hour or so, they get refreshed so you can always see the vanilla install.

Wordpress.

WordPress, of course.

If you are looking for simple CMS solution, WP is recommended. But if you would like to have shopping cart, a forum, ticketing system, news, events calendar and many more things, then I recommend using Mambo (http://www.mamboserver.com). It powers a big Intranet portal in my company (I installed it).

Hope this helps!

I'm with cpoteet and winnopeg with using WordPress.

You can make it do all kinds of things it was never intended to do and it works nice for sites as a CMS that are not blogs as well.

Due to client confidentiality, I can't post links in open forum but feel free to contact me via my site if you want to see some examples of what I've done using WordPress as a backend.

Gravis: There are now a few really nice cart options for WordPress and forums that integrate with WP smooth as silk.

But I also agree with you, Mambo does have some nifty options as well.

I used to use Mambo/Joomla for awhile and I grew to not like it. It seemed like a little too much, but then again it really depends on what you use it for. It was a hassle to customize for me.

I would always recommend Wordpress before anything. The community behind it is huge and really helpful.

You can do a lot with WordPress besides just blogging.

I've tried PHPnuke, CPGnuke, mambo, joomla, etc (can't even remember the names of the others).. and I didn't really like any of them.. until I used WordPress.

I know PHP/MySQL so I can really expand the functionality of WordPress by making customized themes and many customized Plugins for my needs.

IMHO wordpress has the best theme system and best plugin system.

And WordPress's friendly URLs / permlinks / URL rewriting is very powerful... one thing I really need are friendly looking URLs. Some of the CMS's spit out crap URLs that look horrible and I think some search engines may have problems indexing them as unique pages.

I use Rick Eliis' Expression Engine. In my eyes it's the most versatile CMS around (for that price), and I have tried most of the others. It does have a learning curve, but once you start getting into it, there's some amazing stuff you can do with it. Just take custom entry fields, of which you can have as many as you like to set up. Just have a look at EE's feature list ... it's impressive.

Use my own, but also wordpress for cheaper alternative and never let me down.

Joomla is very stupid on search engines , its template ar'nt very customizable , so i ( like peopel who respond you ) recommend you to use Wordpress .

I changed from Expression Engine to Wordpress.

I use EE (ExpressionEngine) for 99% of my clients. As Deus62 says, it's an awesome tool.

honestly they all work just fine, movabletype, ee, wordpress, etc etc etc

How you want to implement those things on your site is the determining factor. I would suggest starting with a free solution, let your site grow a little, then see what you need, what you want, etc. Is your site commercial, if so, then a paid solution usually has a higher cost and of course you have to pay the annual fees for upgrades. Do you need a lot of support? If so, then community size makes a difference. If you are getting the site designed, then that is another consideration.

Decide what you want to do and you'll usually see over the long term some CMS' drop off because they don't have the features you'll need as your site grows.

I am really surprised that no one mentioned Textpattern. I honestly think that it is one of the most versatile CMS systems out there. Give it a look.

I've been very impressed with Expression Engine. I'm a long time Wordpress fan, but EE really is a better application. It doesn't have the same quality of developer community support, but it's noticeably a better system.

I will suggest to look at the different content types involved, and if the website is supposed to behave separately for them. Wordpress works most of the times, but depending on the complexity you can look at some more CMSs. I usually consider Drupal and eZ publish for PHP.

I've used several including joomla, movabletype, typepad, and blogger but settled on wordpress and couldn't be happier. I do still use joomla for my school site though. I guess which one works best really depends on the end use of the site.

Drupal

Gotta be Wordpress. I've used them all -- Movable Type, Textpattern, Drupal, etc. -- and nothing compares to the power, simplicity and reliability of Wordpress. And no other CMS can match WP's active development. The WP team is churning out a new version every few months, so it's constantly getting better.

take a quick look over the template tags at the codex and you'll be able to customize wordpress in a way ahead of just blogging.

WordPress isn't really a CMS. It's for blogging. Later versions support static pages and you can get plug-ins to force a static front page instead of the blog, but it doesn't come out of the box like that and it takes some configuring.

Drupal gets my vote, version 5 released yesterday (or so), 6 years old - worth a punt IMO.

To update this: Volkher is playing with WordPress, loves it, and is thinking of moving everything over to WordPress. I switched from Expression Engine to WordPress back to Expression Engine.

We can say what we prefer (personally) but in the end, write down what you want to do, how you want to do it, then see which CMS fits. Keep in mind, as you can see many have switched between different ones so make sure you can get your data out AND back into another CMS of your choice.

I wonder what jammed picked...

For Aldaynet.org I tried everything before settling on Wordpress. Started with Movable Type then when too many pages turned into waiting a minute for the refresh I tried Expression Engine, which was way beyond what I needed. Then moved to Textpattern, which was nice and I used it for a year but the support is pretty skimpy. It had like 3 developers and a plugin community that was almost nonexistent so you would get a new version every year or so and a new Contact Form plugin every other month. yipee!

Wordpress is where it's at, a HUGE community of theme and plugin developers and updates every few months.

You should know I use WordPress. ;-)

Wordpress for myself. I have done a couple projects with PostNuke, But boy is that a pain and I don't reccomend it.

I love WordPress as a blogging tool, but with my home.php solution you can make it look somewhat more of a CMS.

If I wanted to build a real full-blown community site, then I would have to pick Joomla for its userbase and features. Couple it with Community Builder and Joomlaboard and you've got a complete community solution.

Where is Habari already?

When we look at simplicity and power index, I think wordpress is number one. It is very simple, even for nonexpert user (by hiding advance features) it is becoming a candy. And it's very powerful even you can use it as cms. When I tried to use it as cms, I didn't have any problem except a menu management system, so I wrote it myself. Therefore I think wordpress is a good choice. On the other hand I should say that, user management may not be enough, if you are considering to build a community.

Mmmmm, Habari looks delicious. Might have to try it out and implement it over Wordpress for the new blog.

I'm on the textpattern bandwagon here. It's not very crowded, so I can stretch my legs out.

I use Wordpress with shitloads of plugins on my new music blog
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