Silk CMS Progress

I’ve gotten some inquiries regarding the status of Silk CMS, the content management system I am developing. Since there is some interest in the project I decided to announce that the google code project page has been activated and that I have committed the project to svn. I don’t want to go too much into the design philosophy here since I am planning a large article on CMS design in general however I wanted to start posting about my progress as it gets closer to a production-ready state. Thanks everyone for being patient. I actually created the google project page some time last year when I had been able to work on it and then there was a huge stint of client projects that bombarded me at eroi so I had to move the project to the back burner for a time. Suffice to say, I never had any intention of letting this project become vaporware and I can guarantee that it will not since I can certainly leverage it pretty effectively at my job.

So to preface, Silk CMS is ‘not’ production ready however it is far enough along to tinker with and hack on. I suspect within the next month (time permitting), i will have a pretty impressive release. In the meantime, I am only releasing the code as a checkout from svn. There have been no optimizations and the architecture is not finalized and the module api is subject to change, oh and, there is no documentation. I will run through the code and add documentation when it’s ready to release.

Current features:
-Dynamic Type definitions (via web interface or php modules)
-User/Role management
-Object ACL
-Plugin/Module api
-Core Module

Core Module includes:
-Pages
-Layouts
-Content Blocks