We are happy to announce to all of our visitors and to the Open Source community that our own propriarity CMS, Qool, is now available as Open Source software. We wanted to give Qool, the opportunity to evolve and become a new sollution and addition to the world of CMSes. You can grub it’s source code here. The package is GPL licenced.
Update: The project is hosted on Sourceforge too. Anyone interested can opt in for membership.
What is Qool
Qool is a content management system (framework) that is greatly inspired by Joomla and Wordpress. It is extendable and fast. It is completely modular and nearly all functionality can be substituted with ease.
Built-in Tools
We have added some extra functionality in Qool’s core.The admin module is one of the 3 pre-installed modules (the others are the user manager module and the system module) and has built in features like:
- Image Editor
- Archive Editor
- Text Editors
- Rich Text Editor
- Language Editing
- Reading of Microsoft Excel files
Analysis of Qool Features
Multisite creation
Qool supports a Wordpressμ like functionality allowing you to create and manage multiple sites running on the same package. So you can create unlimited sites with just one Qool installation.
Comment Support on Everything
The commenting system can be used to comment all modules and module items on the Qool cms. Each module can be configured to support commenting or not.
Publish Content in Various Formats
Qool can export content in various formats like:
- XML
- RTF
- Open Document Text
- Printer Friendly Format
Modules Support Multisites too
Each module runs the same way Qool does. So you can use the same module for any site, without the need of seperate folders and directories and not mess each other around. Modules can use their own blocks.
Wordpress Plugins Support (Experimental)
Qool is able to run some Wordpress plugins too. Most of filter type plugins can be run in Qool too. For example the share buttons plugin for WP
SEF URLs
Qool CMS supports SEF URLs by default. A typical Qool URL looks like: www.example.com/articles/article-title.htm
Templates
Not only Qool has it’s own template system based on Smarty, but it also supports Wordpress, Xoops and Drupal themes with little or no modifications. Some examples of this functionality :
- Qool Running with the Wordpress Pixel Theme
- Qool Running with the Green Drupal Theme
- Qool Running with the EADJ2.1 Xoops Theme
Localization
Qool takes into consideration user locales. It can also be translated to any language using the builtin language files editor.
Easy and Safe module setup
Installing and removing modules is plain easy. Everything is controlled from the Qool system and if a module fails to install, the process rolls back and everything is like before.
Internal Recycle Bin
You can delete and restore nearly anything. From articles to users and comments, Qool CMS treats everything as content that can be managed.
SQL abstraction layer
The CMS uses the PEAR DB package to support other databases than MySQL. MySQL is officialy supported but the community can use the layer to add support for other DBs too.
Qool CMS also supports and has functionality for:
- Content Approval
- Pagers
- Macro Language
- Email Posting
- Image resizing
- File searching
- RPC
- Shortcuts
- Session Management
- Caching
- Zip, Rar, Tar Support
- Email Client
- Versioning
- Workflow Engine
- Sitemaps for Search Engines
- Audit Trails
- FTP Support
- File Manager
- Antiflood mechanism
We make a call to the Open Source community to help us improve Qool CMS. We know that the code can be better, more secure, and faster. We want to make this cms the bridge of features from popular CMS’s like Wordpress, Xoops, Drupal and Joomla and leave out all the not needed functionality.
API Documentation and Qool Manual
The manual(not complete) and some api documentation can be found online and is also included in the Qool Package bellow.
Download
You can download Qool CMS from Sourceforge
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Sounds like a promising new CMS. Its been added to CMS Match for comparison! Have a look via the website link above, and compare instantly with hundreds more CMS systems.
It would be even better if you were to move it to git ;)
Lots of strict errors in the pear libraries…
Well, the code looks a little convoluted (strange array lists for kernel/ includes), and slightly as if it were written by a Windows programmer. Configuration data doesn’t belong in the database, and localization per array is a bit outdated, and don’t get me started about Smarty or the noveltylessness of using the GNU GPL for another WebCMS.
However, it at least uses parameterized SQL. That’s five easy bonus points for security!! I’m definitely going to check it out more in deep later…
I have already created a git project but haven’t found the time to push it there. I will during the next days.
@mario The project’s kernel was built 2-3 years before. A good alternative would be to use I8n for the localization purposes. Thanks for the feedback :)
Is this project still in the works? I’d be interested in getting more info for http://www.cmscritic.com
The CMS is always active. You can see a site built with Qool CMS here: http://www.qoolsoft.gr and you can see how it manages subdomains at:
http://blog.qoolsoft.gr
http://labs.qoolsoft.gr
http://manual.qoolsoft.gr
These sub domains are all handled by Qool. You can read the manual for any info you want and you can download it in order to try it.
For any other info, you can post here again. Thank you.
wow.. good sound. I’ll try it. Nice posting. Thank’s a lot for info sharing ^_^