Zotonic is an Open Source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 CMS and Web Framework built in Erlang and released under the Apache 2.0 license. The CMS part of Zotonic is designed to be user friendly and hides development tasks from the user. One of Zotonic's primary goals is speed, and it claims to be up to ten times faster than PHP based frameworks. It's also easily extended by with modules, scomps, filters and models.

Features

• Fast: Zotonic claims to be 10 times faster than PHP based content management systems.
• Simple user interface
• Easy to design through a templating system
• Extensible
• Event-driven: It is possible to build event driven Ajax websites without writing javascript.
• Plugabble access control modules.

Used technologies and methods

• Erlang (programming language)
• Comet
  Comet
  A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
  
  
• PostgreSQL
  PostgreSQL
  PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
  
  
• JQuery
  JQuery
  jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig...
  
  
• ErlyDTL (an improved version there of)
• MVC
• Modular design
  Modular design
  Modular design, or "modularity in design" is an approach that subdivides a system into smaller parts that can be independently created and then used in different systems to drive multiple functionalities...
  
  

External links

• Zotonic — Zotonic homepage
• Google Code project
• Linux Journal, Issue 204, p. 58 (June 2011) "Zotonic: The Erlang CMS"
• ReadWriteWeb, 10 May 2011, The Next Drupal? Zotonic: a modern CMS written in Erlang