Kudos CMS

[ETbyrne]

You can now downlaod Kudos v0.5!!!!!
> Kudos Content Management System (CMS)

Please register and post on the forum to give it a little kick start.
> Kudos Support Forums

[John]

I'll test it over the weekend.

[ETbyrne]

Yay! Thanks!

[ETbyrne]

I just released the Kudos version 0.6 and it supports custom plug-ins!!! Yaaahooo!

Download version 0.6:
> http://www.evanbot.com/kudos/bin/kudos-v0-6.zip

Patch for version 0.5 users:
> http://www.evanbot.com/kudos/bin/patch-v0-6.zip

I'll make a short "hello world" plug-in tutorial soon and show you all how easy it is to make a plug-in. And to install plug-ins is really easy, just upload the folder and it works!

[John]

Well I just installed it - Haven't played with the CMS much but I have two recommendations.

1. A more graphic installer, "noob" users don't particularly like having to edit PHP files to install a CMS.

2. A huge no-no is to allow the CMS to fully operate with the install.php file still active. If someone installs the CMS, gets everything working fine, has hundreds of users register - then someone comes along and sniffs the directory and sees install.php is still there - all they have to do is run install.php and the entire website is wiped out. A simple

PHP Code:

if(file_exists("install.php") die("Delete install.php"); 


would do the trick. I'll let you know more when I play with it some more.

[ETbyrne]

Thanks for the recommendations.
I would like to note (this is directed to those of who haven't installed Kudos) that it tells you to delete the install.php file before configuring your installation.

I'll implement your security idea in the next patch.

I plan on creating a graphic installer for version 0.7