Introduction to top rated Zend Framework CMS projects

The Zend Framework is no doubt  one of the most reliable and trustful PHP frameworks. It has throughout time matured into a simple, traightforward, secure, object-oriented and rigid codebase that provides simplicity and extensibility for developing Web applications and web services.

However, the Zend Framework still can be considered as a young Framework in PHP community, that's why so far there is no many Zend Framework based CMS available, and not as popluar as Joomla!, Drupal, TYPO3...

As a professional Zend Framework development outsourcing company, EveBit really hope there would be certain powerful CMS and speedup the development.

The good news is that now the situation is changing, and this blog will give a introduction to top rated Zend Framework CMS projects:

Pimcore CMS

http://www.pimcore.org

Pimcore is purely written in object-oriented PHP 5 and is based on the Zend Framework. The application structure of pimcore follows the basic Model–view–controller pattern and all additional Zend Framework APIs (database abstraction, caching, i18n,...) modules and helpers (Zend View Helpers,...) can be used within pimcore. The frontend of the administration interface is powered by the Javascript ExtJS user interface toolkit. The communication between frontend and backend is purely based on asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

Pimcore is extensible through plugins and widgets. Extensions can be distributed by using a dedicated plugin server or by using the main plugin registry. Pimcore provides interfaces for integrating Java-based applications and objects by utilizing the PHP-Java-Bridge and Apache Thrift.

Pimcore is more than just a full-featured CMS – it is an enterprise-ready CMS with a Product Information Management (PIM) framework. This allows Pimcore to offer a true multi-channel publishing and integration into e-commerce systems like Magento. All content can be easily managed using drag and drop and context-sensitive based WYSIWYG editing.  You can set custom permissions for the different pages and it includes a versioning system. The strength of Pimcore however relies on its open content and integration support. You can easily syndicate and publish information in formats other than RSS. As such, integration with Twitter, YouTube or Google Docs is just a matter of a few lines of PHP code.

Digitalus CMS

http://digitaluscms.com

Digitalus CMS takes a different approach to conventional Content Management Systems. Instead of bundling the script with endless lists of features, the developers added an API to the base so that you can easily customize any aspect of the system. This creates a flexible platform that can be adapted to a wide range of sites and requirements.  The script comes with some default modules like blog, contact form, site search and slideshows but you can download other modules from the site. It takes only a few minutes to convert your HTML page to a Digitalus template or you can also download some of the free templates available from their site.

TomatoCMS

http://www.tomatocms.com

TomatoCMS is a modern CMS based on the Zend framework, the jQuery JavaScript library and the 960grid CSS framework. Each page within TomatoCMS is made up blocks of content known as widgets. These widgets can be ordered and resized using the built-in Layout Editor. TomatoCMS supports a module system combining both core modules and built-in modules like advertising management system, poll, tag, upload, etc. You can easily write your own module using its hooks. TomantoCMS caters a lot for SEO and performance. The database is well optimized and pages can be cached.