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Main features

  • Database abstraction:

    X3 use PDO and, in theory, can use many databases.
    We have selected (and tested) only:
    • SQLite for small web sites (to rewrite),
    • MySQL for large web sites and web applications.

  • Standards and accessibility:

    The X3 CMS is W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) compliant.
    In particular:
    • each page is xHTML 1.1 strict valid;
    • the layout is defined with validated style sheets CSS 2;
    • the X3 CMS help You to respect WAI's accessibility criteria and the Guidelines for web accessibility WCAG 1.0.

  • Freedom of Layout:

    The X3 layout is customizable. You can choose a pre-existing theme or make your own. Each theme can contain one or more templates. Each web site area can use a different theme and each page can use a different template.
    A template is composed of an php file and at least one css files. If you are not experienced with xHTML and CSS files you need a technician for this.

  • Easy to use:

    To add, edit or delete pages and menù items you must know at least a word processor (e.g.: Microsoft Wordpad is enough).

  • Modular:

    The X3 CMS provide a simple way to add features to your web site: the plugins. After the ftp upload you can install a plugin and put it into a page. Some modules have got an administration section and some have got a configuration section.
    The CMS comes with some useful plugins:
    • X3search provides an internal search engine
    • X4site map provides a simple area map
    • X3flags provides a language switcher
    • X3get_by_key is an aggregator for articles with the same key
    You can find many other plugins, free and non-free, in our shop.

  • Advanced tools:

    Some additional features embedded into X3:

    • Groups and Users:
      X3 CMS supports an unlimited number of groups and users and lets you define permissions for each user on each element.

    • Private and public areas:
      X3 CMS provides as default one public and one private area and you can add unlimited public and private areas where only enabled user can access with login.

    • Multi language:
      with X3 CMS you can easily made a multi language web site. Each language have indipendent menù and contents.

    • Simple or Advanced editing:
      with simple editing (the default option) you have one page-one article. With advanced editing you can have one-page-many section of contents and each section can contains many articles.

  • Some comforts:

    • search engine friendly URLs;
    • different url, name, title, description and keywords for each page;
    • automatic sitemap.xml creation;
    • automatic breadcrumb;
    • unlimited menù;
    • temporarily off line mode;
    • centralized file manager;
    • debug mode;
    • caching mode;
    • database back up (to rewrite);
    • counter (you can set a tracker like Google Analytics into the template);
    • Ajaxed admin interface.

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The rewrite

During 2009 we have completely rewritten X3 CMS.

Starting with 0.4 release the engine is made up X4webapp, a MVC framework derived from Kohana.

With the rewrite we have tried to include those features that was not possible to implement in the old X3 and we have maintained, simplifying and in some cases improving, features already present.

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