XOOPS

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Xoops
Developer(s)The XOOPS Project
Stable release
2.5.11[1] / 2023-12-24[±]
Preview release2.6.0 alpha 3 (September 18, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-09-18)) [±]
Repository
Written inPHP
Typecontent management system
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Websitexoops.org Edit this on Wikidata

XOOPS /ˈzps/[2] is a free open-source content management system (CMS), written in PHP. It uses a modular architecture allowing users to customize, update and theme their websites. XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is free to use, modify and redistribute.

Overview

XOOPS is an

weblog or journal, but this can be expanded upon and customized, i.e. users might add the appropriate modules (freeware and commercial) to store content in news, forums, downloads, and others.[3]

Key features

Community
Because XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) the growth and development of XOOPS is dependent on the contributions of a worldwide community effort.
Database
XOOPS uses a relational database (currently MySQL) to store data required for running a web-based content management system.
Advanced access control layer
Administrators have the ability to grant specific groups of users specific access rights to content and features such as edit, delete, upload, add attachments, publish content, and so on.
Modularized
Modules
can be installed, uninstalled, activated, and deactivated using the module administration system.
Core features usable by modules
XOOPS possess a number of core features that can be used by modules like permissions, comments, notifications and blocks features.
Personalization
Administrators have the ability to set specific permissions for user access and control of individual elements of their websites.
User Management
The ability to search for users by various criteria, send email and private messages to users through a template-based messaging system.
International language support
The XOOPS community has official support sites for non-English-speaking users. Additionally XOOPS itself supports multi-byte character sets for languages that use characters not in the Latin alphabet, for example Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc. The multi-language support is also available on the PDF generation feature provided by the TCPDF library.
Theme-based skinnable interface
XOOPS uses themes for page presentation. Both administrators and users can change the look of the entire web site by selecting from available themes.
Templates
XOOPS uses the Smarty templating engine which allows many benefits such as easier separation between business logic and presentation logic as well as content caching.
Built-in LDAP authentication
Some SEO add-ons
A number of XOOPS modules contain features to facilitate the indexing of a website in
URL rewriting
is possible, XOOPS often uses redirects that may confuse search engines. In addition, some XOOPS modules create duplicate content by making the same information available on more than one URL while in other cases (especially in case of multilingual sites), several sets of content may be made available through the same URL.

Screenshots

See also

References

  1. ^ "XOOPS 2.5.11 Final Released". xoops.org. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
  2. ^ "All About XOOPS - XOOPS Web Application System". www.xoops.org.
  3. ^ Spick, Goeff (October 27, 2009). "Latest XOOPS Web CMS Release Bolsters Admin Usability". CMS Wire.
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