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Features

The following tables give you an overview of the various possibilities papaya CMS has to offer.

Functions / General features

  • Open source
  • Accessibility
  • Multilanguage and full UTF-8 support
  • Blogs
  • Newsletter with archive (Text, HTML, PDF)
  • Page output as HTML, XHTML, XML, PDF and more
  • Community
  • RSS/Atom export
  • Asset Management / Media database
  • Feedback form with form editor
  • Aliases (short URLs)
  • Extensive error page management (redirects, 404, etc.)
  • FAQ
  • Link database and Link management
  • Podcasts
  • Poll and Quiz system
  • Access protected pages
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Page rating
  • Download pages
  • News pages
  • Image galeries
  • Sitemap
  • Questionnaire
  • Event manager
  • Submit / recommend page
  • Integration with search engines "solr", "elastic search"
  • Spam filter for forum entries, form data, etc.
  • Guestbook

Technological Features

  • XML based storage and delivery of content
  • support for Loadbalancing / Clustering
  • Open source code
  • 100 % UTF-8 support
  • Compatible with Apache, NGINX, PHP: Built-In, Lighthttpd
  • MySQL Support
  • SQLite3 Support
  • PostgreSQL Support
  • Reporting bugs from the Backend
  • Open standards Templating system (XSLT)
  • Object oriented PHP Code
  • Multidomain capabilities / "Virtual hosts in CMS"
  • Plugin API (extension interface)
  • Session management
  • Debugging functions
  • Error logging (Errors, warnings and notices)
  • Bug reporting from the Backend

Performance and Scalability

  • Caching for pages
  • Caching of partial contents (boxes)
  • Individual Cache settings per page
  • Separate database connection for reading and writing

Design, Templating System and Output Formats

  • Accessibility
  • Browser independence and compatibility of generated Code
  • Easily adaptable base templates
  • Template management
  • Different template sets per domain
  • Open standards for templating system (XSLT)
  • Various output formats for content (HTML, PDF, XML, RSS/RDF, atom, WML, WAP, iPhone, PDA)
  • Print version
  • Dynamic (graphical) navigations
  • Multiple navigation and page types

Content Shating

  • AjaX
  • RIA
  • RSS feeds
  • Video integration
  • Google Maps integration

Health Communication / e-Health

  • Accessibility

Community

  • Community management
  • Double opt in
  • User profile extendable
  • Contact networks / relations
  • Manage contact
  • Ratings, comments
  • Poll
  • Forums
  • Blogs
  • Comments

Workflow and Editorial Team

  • Content approval
  • Page versioning
  • Assets / Media items versioning
  • Undo feature
  • Messaging system
  • To do list / Task management
  • Mail overview
  • Reminder
  • Task sharing and und responsibilities
  • Internal article search
  • List of last changed articles
  • Multilanguage backend (user specific)
  • Form editor / form generator
  • Backend editing
  • Clipboard
  • Shortcuts
  • Workflow oriented user interface
  • WYSIWYG editor / rich text editor (RTE)
  • Simultaneous editing warning
  • Recycle bin feature
  • Time-controlled publishing
  • Browser based operation
  • Online help

User management

  • Roles and access control concept
  • User management and access
    control management
  • User groups
  • Constraining user access
  • Customizable backend interface

Asset Management / Media Database

  • Asset library
  • Setting access limits for files
  • File management
  • Downloads
  • Versioning
  • CDN connectability
  • Media player

Multimedia and WebTV

  • Video inclusion
  • Web TV broadcasting
  • Web TV scheduling

Image editing and usage

  • Scaling and cropping
  • Changing image format
  • Image positioning
  • Captions, title text, alt text
  • Custom image frames/borders
  • Dynamic text in images
  • Direct embedding of various media formats

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

  • Search engine friendly URLs / URL rewriting
  • Metadata editable for each article page
  • Integration for external statistic systems (e.g. Google Analytics, SiteCatalyst, etc.)
  • Valid XHTML
  • Tableless CSS
  • Google sitemaps

Business Requirements

  • Google Analytics integration

Security

  • Black and whitelist for user login
  • Captchas for forms
  • Brute force attack recognition system for logins
  • Email verification
  • Login log
  • Backend usage logging (Audit trail)
  • Granular access control management
  • LDAP authentication
  • SSL compatibility frontend
  • SSL compatibility backend
  • SSL login
  • Double-Opt-In

Documentation

  • User manual
  • Administrator's manual
  • Source code documentation via phpDoc
  • Documentation of error messages

Support & Services

  • Online help
  • Public forum
  • Public mailing lists