Absolut Engine
news publishing system / content management system / PHP framework
Download Absolut Engine v1.73 (we are not dead!)
Absolut Engine v1.73 is fully compatible with PHP v5+. Many webhosting companies now fully support PHP 5, so just ask you webhoster to migrate to PHP 5. You can also choose to stay with PHP 4 and run v1.73 or lesser without a problem. Future versions will be no longer tested on PHP 4!
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Modules: Download modules - including: discussions & comments, directory (categories), eventcalendar, flickr, google maps (API) + editor, messaging, nowplaying, rssfeed, rssimport, weather (METAR)...
DokuWiki module: Download DokuWiki bridging module - for use with DokuWiki - great and easy-to-use PHP wiki system. DokuWiki module serves as a bridging module that brings authetication model of AE into DokuWiki. For use with dokuwiki-2006-11-06 version. Other versions' code could differ. Copy dokuwiki into admin/modules/wiki and copy dokuwiki bridging module over the files.
Translations: Romanian messages (by Nelu Campean).
Absolut Engine, a news publishing system once, more of content management system (CMS) today, aims to be a simple and flexible PHP framework. With introduction of modules in v1.70 and a rewrite in v1.72 everything seems to be on way to stable and efficient PHP framework. This is CMS with XHTML 1.0 Strict valid output, using PHP/MySQL, clean URLs/friendly URLs, SEO (search engine optimization) enabled CMS.If doing manual install or upgrade, do not forget to set permissions to 777 for both files and images directories.