Symphony is a web publishing system made for web developers.

Symphony is a web publishing system made for web developers. It gives you all the power and flexibility you'll need, while keeping out of your way.

Symphony lets you organise everything the way you like, from your publishing environment to your website's URL structure. Built to be versatile and customisable, Symphony really is what you make of it.

Symphony's templating engine is pure XSLT goodness. XSLT is a standard recommended by the W3C, so learning Symphony means that you're learning skills that you can also use outside of the system. If you already know the XML and CSS standards, then chances are you should be able to quickly pick up XSLT.

Symphony lets you to create small blocks of XSLT code called utilities, which you can use as building blocks to construct your site's pages.

Due to the nature of XSLT, these utilities are highly reusable, so the next time you're developing a website you'll probably find you've already done half the work.

Features:

The Engine

Symphony is modular, which helps make life easy if you're moving your site around, say from a local development version to the live online site. This is also great for collaborating and sharing themes with the Symphony community.

If your site needs more than what Symphony is capable of, Campfire services (Symphony's extension modules) can add extra functionality where it's missing.

The User Interface

By making every aspect of the publishing environment customisable, Symphony gives you complete control over how authors publish. Every field is customisable, from order to validation rules.

While you can manage everything from within the admin interface, but Symphony is also designed to work with FTP, so if you'd rather edit files directly on the server or with your favourite text editor, you can.
Symphony's XML-RPC Campfire services allows desktop applications like MarsEdit to publish entries to your website remotely.

Requirements:

· PHP 4.3
· MySQL 3.23 and above
· XSLT Support (LibXSLT or Sablotron)
· Some common modules: XML Support (LibXML), ZLib Compression Library and mod_rewrite Apache module