F3Site 2009 - rapid vortal system

Try new version of F3Site

F3Site is a lightweight CMS written in XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS and PHP 5. It lets you create multilingual websites without necessity of separate installation for each language. Requirements:

PHP 5.2 or newer with enabled PDO extension
database: MySQL 5.0.2+ or SQLite 3+
PHP sessions

Speed up your vortal

Speed of generating pages is our priority. F3Site code is written and optimized in order to make it very fast also on slow servers. It doesn't rely on heavy libraries that slow down operations.

Adjust appearance without PHP knowledge

F3Site has been offering new template system with easy and intuitive syntax. You can adjust view of every module to fit your needs. Every skin contains CSS stylesheets describing elements set, colors, fonts... Visitors may change CSS scheme.

Segregate content

By default F3Site supports 5 types of content: articles, files, multimedia, links and news. Every item is assigned to category by editors. You can create as many subcategories as you want. You may also define welcome text.

Build your community - users

Internauts may register their personal accounts in Your vortal. You can give users particular privileges for editing content in selected categories and set them special rank:

User - standard user - default rank
Editor - access to content editing
Administrator - access to admin panel
Owner - all privileges
Inactive - cannot log in

New content editor

F3Site 3 has a new HTML and BBCode editor written in JavaScript. Text formatting and inserting emoticons is even easier. You can short your time of putting tags using keyboard shortcuts. The editor contains a set of the most popular special characters. Moreover, with dynamic preview function you will see, how the effects of your efforts look without sending them to server.

Multimedia gallery

Besides images you may insert Flash animations or games, video clips played in Apple QuickTime and movies in OGG format (HTML 5).

Detects language automatically

F3Site detects preferred user language basing on browser settings. If no selected language is available, it will load default. The language can be changed by clicking country flag.

Extend features

You can add new features to Your website with extensions. Guestbook? Chat? You will find them in extensions category. Are you PHP and SQL programmer? You can get involved and join F3Site Add-ons developers community!

Interesting functions

content priorities (high, normal, low)
sorting items setting for every category (title, ID ascending, ID descending)
random content / ads rotator
polls - users may select one or more answers according to poll settings
news archive - from all categories
private messages
RSS channels generator
panels: online and new content
word replacement / censorship
database export (security copy)
free pages - out of any category - with PHP support

License

F3Site is distributed under free licence GPL 3. You may also use it for commercial purposes without any fee.

Are you interested in creating skins and extensions? You will find guides in HELP category. If you need help, visit our forum

Beta testers and merits

PanYeti (CyfroGraf)
jareQ
rafal
skygod
Fenek
Sh1moda
bolek12
Lavanos
BŁogi
DJ ProG
Ervil
mati1d
Petermechanic
RoboKomp