Mandarin CCDS is a PHP5/MySql5 based CMS including Smarty Template Engine, Xajax and jQuery with multi language support, in place editing and much more useful features.

Mandarin CCDS uses a different approach of storing and returning contents than most other content management systems. The backend stores all objects (contents) in a tree structure. All objects belong to a certain class and each class consists of basic properties and (optional) content fields (mysql tables) and/or parameters. The entire frontend is completely customizable using Smarty templates. There are no predefined column layouts and/or content areas. Mandarin CCDS adds its own functions to the template engine for querying all kinda objects from the database. If you are already familiar with smarty and sick of writing your own custom backends, you will like it!

It's bright, shiny, fast and absolutely lovely :)

Installation

Copy all files and folders to your webroot. The trunk contains the SQL scheme called ccds3.sql. Create the database and afterwards change the paths and mysql information in the configuration file located in /ccds_config/config.inc.php. When using apache make sure the .htaccess file is located in your docroot. You can also copy the rewrite rules into your vhost configuration.

Afterwards you can login at: http://yourdomain.com/ccds/

The default login is admin:administrator. Don't forget to change your login after successful installation.

Updates notes:

2009-09-22

This update contains a lot of improvements and bugfixes. All core functions & modules are included as well as the Mysql database scheme.

The current version is not yet fully translated. Most messages and labels are still german, but will be translated soon.

The caching has been improved and support for memcached is fully integrated. The mysql queries for retrieving contents have been improved and the number of necessary queries to deliver webpages has been reduced. The imagine resize engine on smarty templates now supports:

• imagick PECL (

• imagick PECL 2.0 (>=PHP 5.2.x)

• imagick via shell_exec (convert)

• magickWand

• GD (basic implementation)

Feel free to download and try.

ROADMAP

Some bigger milestones:

Backend * Customer / Contact Management * Workflow Features

Shop Features * Shipping configuration * Order management * voucher/coupon management * rebate

Newsletter / Mailing Features

Logging Features / Statistics

Internationalisation

HISTORY

Third version, still under feature developement. Nearly 100 installations since 2006 are up and running.

SCREENSHOTS

Login User Preferences Object Properties Listview Content Edit Mode Filemanager Gallery View Filemanager File Upload Object Editor Template Manager Project Properties Domain Preferences Frontend Editing