While a large part of our likes or dislikes come down to personal taste, there are still quite a few things that I think most of us want in a Content Management System. Here’s my list, and I’ll carefully explain why nothing satisfies it, and nothing ever will.

Free and Open Source (GPL, anyone?)

Heckle if you wish, but this is a biggie for me. I need to be able to download and play with it for free! I need to be able to use it on my auntie Barb’s beauty parlor site that she’s not paying me a dime for. I need to be able to screw with the code and reuse the code and branch off from the code without getting sued.

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For a project we’ve been working on, I recently had to implement a calendar in PHP to show upcoming events. The solution was a wee bit tricky (and pretty annoying), so here it is in all it’s glory, in case someone else is looking. It’s pretty easily skinnable, and very scalable, so it should fit in nicely with your project.

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