PHP-Fusion 9.10.30 / 8.00.100 – Free Open Source CMS

PHP-Fusion is a lightweight open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. Founded as an open-source project under the GNU AGPL 3, PHP-Fusion is FREE to use.

PHP-Fusion utilizes a MySQL database to store your site content and includes a simple, yet comprehensive and complete administration system to manage your sites. It includes the most common features you would expect to see in many other content management system packages.

It is an all-in-one, integrated, scalable platform that fits any purpose for website production, whether you are creating community portals or personal sites.

PHP-Fusion CMS is supported in about a dozen languages besides English.

The term Addons refers to PHP-Fusion’s Infusions, Themes, Panels, Plugins, Widgets, BBCodes, User Fields, Graphics, and other similar PHP-Fusion-based components.

Highlights in PHP-Fusion 9:

PHP-Fusion Defender

• Automatic form sanitation system for your fields with form token support

PHP-Fusion Dynamics

• Automatic form API & database handler system

Dynamic User Fields

• Arrange, connect to 3rd parties, and even categorize your user profiles with tabs.

Atom Theme Engine

• Configurable CSS Overrides for any given Theme for its default CSS classes

SEO Engine

• Permalinks, pretty URLs, and normalization functions.
• A modular system like BBCodes makes it easy to customize and extend how permalinks are generated.

Multilingual Core capabilities

• An instance format with exclusion and inclusion options
• You can read more about it under Multilingual Content Explained

Model > View Templating

• The MVT has been enabled for most Core content and Core Infusions.
• All themes can modify individual core components and infusion layouts using this system.

Notification email templating

• Enabled for contact, forum notifications, and PM emails

Responsiveness

• Native Bootstrap is enabled in the system by default

GeoMap

• GeoMap is a Country > State selector + City and address fields with 250 Countries and 6832 States covered.

DatabaseFactory

• Optimized OOP-based Database handling that provides support for multiple database connection instances at once with either PDO or MySQL drivers enabled.
• Added quite a few handy and new functions for database handling, such as db_exists, dblastid, dbnextid, etc.

UTF-8

• With UTF-8 as the default for both databases and character sets.
• This is also supported by a converter script provided in the upgrade procedure.
• You can read more about it under UTF-8 Explained

A Blog system

• Included a new Blog system that comes with a Blog Archive Panel and a new Dynamic type of category system

Site links

• A new mobile-friendly system for the site links has been made.
• The new system has support for images and sub-menu items

Two new Panel positions

• Below the header and above the footer

User Migration Tool

• You can now merge user accounts with content

Back-End Theming

• A whole new Engine for the Administration to have its own Themes

Theme Widgets

• Configurable plugins directly for Themes

Two Default Admin Themes

• Artemis
• Material
• Venus
• Old_School

Two Default Themes

• Fusion Theme
• Bootstrap Theme
• Septenary Theme

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PHP-Fusion – Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
✓ Includes built-in security features such as automatic form sanitization and form-token support to help protect site inputs.	✗ Requires a PHP/MySQL-based hosting environment along with a compatible web server and rewrite support, so it cannot be deployed like a standalone desktop application.
✓ Provides SEO-friendly permalinks, pretty URLs, and URL normalization through its dedicated SEO engine.	✗ The large add-on ecosystem of infusions, themes, plugins, widgets, and other extensions can make site management more involved as customization grows.
✓ Offers flexible customization through themes, CSS overrides, widgets, plugins, and template support.	✗ Its built-in administration and customization framework may require familiarity with PHP, databases, themes, and CMS configuration for advanced use.
✓ Supports multilingual sites with a broad selection of available language translations and a multilingual core.	✗ The platform relies on MySQL for storing site content, adding a database requirement that simpler static websites do not have.
✓ Includes useful built-in site features such as blogging, user-profile customization, responsive Bootstrap support, and account migration tools.	✗ Some newer functionality depends on specific server-side requirements; for example, the latest listed release raises the minimum PHP requirement to 7.2.5 or later.

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