DMANews Features:
DMANews is equipped with a very carefully balanced features set. We've deliberately tried to avoid adding a bewildering array of little used features, and have instead concentrated on ease of use. That said, you will very likely find it meets your needs, and is very flexible when it comes to templating.
Ease of use
- Supplied with clearly written documentation. (Click here to view the manual)
- Easily installed in minutes using an interactive install script.
- Once installed, no knowledge of HTML, CSS or PHP necessary for the script to be used successfully.
- Once installed eliminates the need for FTP
- ... News images uploaded via browser
- ... Category images uploaded via browser
Control panel
- Choice of 4 beautiful control panel themes
- ... Milk [view]
- ... Aluminex [view]
- ... Maggra-X [view]
- ... Aqua [view]
- Log into a friendly and attractive admin script to administer news.
- News and admin options set using simple forms.
- Courtesy features such as confirmation before deletion.
- Choice of admin themes with an easy switching theme engine.
- Even the admin script has a template to fit in seamlessly with your site design.
- One easy CSS file for the admin script.
News Output
- Headline.
- News content.
- Authors name.
- Date posted.
- Category image.
- Up to 3 news images stored directly in database
Built in news navigation system
A simple way of looking at older news aticles |
- See next/previous news item(s)
- Go to start/end news item
- Sort by date, ID, category or user
- Sort direction - ascending/descending
- Number of news items displayed can be changed by visitors using +/- links
News image handling
- Browser based image upload of images for use in news items
- ... these images are stored in the database
- ... and are deleted when the news item is deleted
Template based design
- You have 100% control over design of displayed news articles, for example, design your template in HTML, put some predefined markers where you want the template engine to place the content (eg: XXX_TIME_XXX where you want the time/date to appear) then copy/paste it into the "Configure Templates" form in the admin script.
- Support for tables with alternating row colors.
- Supplied with a variety of predefined "just click" templates for those who don't want to write their own.
Security
- Session based admin login
- Session block after 3 login attempts
- MD5 security for admin password
- 3 access levels
- All essential functions in the script are hard encrypted to deter vulnerability anaysis
Safety
- Admins cannot delete themselves, only other admins can delete an admin
PHP and MySQL, the fast, reliable and proven combination
- Blazing speeds, outperforms ASP, JSP, ColdFusion and Perl (CGI).
- MySQL database proven on sites handling over half a million pages a day.
Sponsors: 2006
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Simply make a donation here and then use the contact form to let us know who you are, the URL of your site and the URL of your logo.
We'll add your info within 48 hours and it will stay there for the whole calendar year. All entries will be sorted by donation amount. |
