Not just another pretty face!
Posted by vscribe on July 14, 2007
In fact, its more! I have been watching closely the new budding culture growing around Aliro, a new fork. I am very excited about the features: (source link here)
Aliro features
Aliro is an evolutionary development from Mambo and Joomla. By using the latest technology (PHP5 and MySQL5) it is able to advance significantly in quality of code and efficiency of operation. Major features include:
- Accessibility – Aliro is designed for accessibility. Almost all XHTML is removed from the core, and what little remains is purely semantic. The admin side can be run without JavaScript. Since the core of Aliro does not provide any user visible services, the user side can also run without JavaScript so far as Aliro is concerned. It is the responsibility of extensions to maintain this standard.
- Site templates – the template model is made more advanced by giving greater control to the template. Other elements that create the output for the browser are expected to produce only semantic XHTML.
- The design of Aliro makes it fast, efficient and scalable and includes smart cache services
- Authentication of users is optional – when used it is flexible and extensible
- Aliro contains a completely new Role Based Access Control system that is powerful and efficient
- All requests from a browser that accepts cookies are sessions, so a shopping cart or similar can be active immediately
- The rationalised object model used in Aliro makes development of extensions quicker and easier
- Database capabilities have been extended to require much less to be fixed in code, and therefore to allow much easier customisation
- An integral error recorder traps problems without giving diagnostic information to users (who may be hackers) while retaining extensive diagnostic information
- The Aliro standard folder manager provides an arbitrary depth structure around which a site can be built
- A simplified plugin architecture allows much greater use of plugins for customisation and integration
- Menu logic permits more powerful choices for extensions and leaves presentation issues to replaceable modules
As you can see this is a powerful start to a great new CMS.
