Suggestions for a private company web site?

[vdell]

I'm looking for a CMS (or similiar) that would allow the following simple thing:

The front page holds links to sub-pages and the links will have and expiration date after which they must be removed completely from the system (automatically of course). The links are added by employees around the country so there needs to be an secure admin page in the system. AFAIK, that's really all the features that are required but I didn't know how to format it to a search engine so I'm pondering if someone has an idea for such system?

TIA

[Jorg]

Hi there,

Why the expiration date on the pages? That sounds like an odd requirement...

AFAIK the best ones are listed at;

http://www.opensourcecms.com/

You can try them all and find the one to your liking before installing it. As for the expiration feature, maybe you can hack into an existing one by simply checking the DB for an expired page and removing it from the system completely.

- Jorgen

[vdell]

Why the expiration date on the pages? That sounds like an odd requirement...

The front page lists links to prices for travelling destinations (like lets say, amsterdam, cran canaria etc.) which are only valid for some period of time. Naturally there's no idea in keeping them in the list after that time has passed.

I think a full blown CMS system is somewhat of an overkill for such a simple task but then again it does make it possible for future extensions (like the ability to execute searches for the list and such).

[Jorg]

Ahh I see, wouldn't that be just a view on the DB? Per price item I would say, this is the date until shown on the front page. When the user looks at the page and the server time reports that it's past the expired time, simply do not show them anymore. I would not go with expirable auto-remove pages, but simply let the content in the DB auto expire, or not expire, just drop out of the view and leave the removal part to the admin who can clean up the DB once in a while.

Regards,
- Jorgen