News-Maniac

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What is News-Maniac?

News-Maniac is feature rich, highly customizable, multi-language and user-friendly news script. It's written in PHP and uses a MySQL database to store all data.

Features

• Easy installation and update through web interface
• Highly custimizable layout because of templates and one stylesheet
• Highly customizable user and group management (each user can have different access privileges)
• Multilanguage support based on .po files
• Static RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 backend
• Newsletter system featuring optional SMTP backend
• You can create categories and assign each categorie an image
• Comment system
• XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 valid
• XHTML output is templated based
• Possibility to search news
• Use custom smilies
• Mail news to a friend
• Public users can submit news
• and many more

Documentation

The documentation can be found at http://news-maniac.sourceforge.net/docs/news-maniac/

Download

There are different possibilities to get News-Maniac.

Stable release

news-maniac-0.6.0.tar.gz

Nightly build

news-maniac-cvsroot.tar.bz2

CVS

Execute the following commands:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/news-manaic login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/news-maniac co news-maniac

In addition you can browse the CVS Respository at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/news-maniac

Attention: If you downloaded a Nightly build or the CVS source you'll need the directories admin/phpss, templates_c, smarty and images from the latest stable release

Contact

If you have problems with your copy of News-Maniac please post your issue on the specified Tracker