MODx vs CMSMS: Comparative Review

[crossconnect]

Please see a brief review comparing MODx and CMS here:

http://rahul.rahul.net/reviews/modx-vs-cmsms.html

Rahul

[Pierre M.]

CMSms v1.0.6 is very outdated. v1.2.3 is available today.
I don't know MODx.

Pierre M.

[faglork]

All in all nice work, with some helpful hints, especially the SEARCH issue. In that case I agree wholeheartedly.


CAVEAT: "See the description of "CMSMS: Pisearch Module" for an example of just how bad documentation can be."

--> Pisearch is a third party module, not CMSMS core.

Cheers,
Alex

[hexdj]

Interesting Review

I think ModX is at a very early stage at the moment, I have seen the online demo and it's way behind CMSMS, but I believe it won the "Most Promising CMS" Packt Award last year so they might be up to something good.

[saitanay]

just  tried modx .. its beautiful.. and as easy as cmsms..

[Vin]

They have importing static HTML pages to the system... interesting.

But I like smarty logic more, somehow.

[wesyah234]

I've used both, CMSMS much more than modx, and I really appreciate cmsms's handling of templates and stylesheets completely in the database.  Modx stores the template in the db, yet not the stylesheets.  You can edit them within the admin tool, but the stylesheet is just treated as a "resource" in the resource manager, while the template is stored separately as a "template".

Also like the new versions of CMSMS that keep you where you were editing in the text area even after pressing the Apply button... (GREAT idea)

This comment by the reviewer is also a good idea I'd like to see in a lot of web based systems:

Neither package printed the error messages in a form that could be copied-and-pasted to apply fixes. Suppose a number of files are not writable. The CMS installation procedure should ideally print the filenames in a list, so the user can copy-and-paste them into a single command to write-enable the files. Instead, these CMSes tended to print many error messages, one for each file, making copy-and-pase rather tedious.

One thing I like more about modx is the Ditto plugin:
http://modxcms.com/ditto_documentation.html

They each do a good job of allowing the user to create menus.

The tree navigation in modx is great... it makes it easy to create pages at a certain level in the tree (with the popup menu)

All that being said, I still stick with cmsms.. I've created 4 client websites with it so far and I'm very happy.

[factor1]

I looked at modx almost 2 years ago, (when CMSms was in 0.6 or maybe 0.. I liked the modx interface (still do), but it works almost the same for me.

I always leave my CSS external.