6 |ForestCMS| stands for "Filesystem_-Oriented reST_ CMS_" (or
7 "Filesystem_-Oriented reStructuredText_ `Content Management System`_" for long
10 It's a `Web CMS`_ inspired in the ideas brought by the Hooks_ PHP_ framework
11 for content managements and it's intended to make easy to publish contents in
12 a filesystem_-oriented way (i.e. use the hierarchical nature of the filesystem_
13 to build a tree-like content database). This makes very easy to manage contents
14 without a web interface (by just editing files in the filesystem_). A web
15 interface can come in the future, though, it just have to manage files in the
16 filesystem_ instead of rows in a relational database.
18 |ForestCMS| is written in Python_, and the content is written in
19 reStructuredText_ instead of HTML_. Why? Just because reStructuredText_ is
20 great for writing content, and if you *really* need to do some nasty HTML_
21 tricks, you can always use the `raw directive`_.
28 If you want to quickly try ForestCMS just run::
32 And point your browser to http://localhost:8000/README to see this very same
33 file rendered as HTML_.
37 .. |ForestCMS| replace:: **ForestCMS**
39 .. _PHP: http://www.php.net/
40 .. _Python: http://www.python.org/
42 .. _reST: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
43 .. _Hooks: http://hooks.gforge.lug.fi.uba.ar/hooks/docs/html/
44 .. _HTML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
45 .. _Filesystem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem
46 .. _Content Management System:
47 .. _CMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Management_System
48 .. _Web CMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Management_System
49 .. _raw directive: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#raw-data-pass-through