acp3/cms

ACP3 is a highly customizable and easy to use web content management system based on PHP5 and MySQL.

v6.36.2 2025-07-21 19:27 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1
• wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin: ^2.0

Replaces

• acp3/core: *
• acp3/module-acp: *
• acp3/module-articles: *
• acp3/module-articles-search: *
• acp3/module-articles-seo: *
• acp3/module-audit-log: *
• acp3/module-captcha: *
• acp3/module-categories: *
• acp3/module-comments: *
• acp3/module-contact: *
• acp3/module-contact-seo: *
• acp3/module-cookie-consent: *
• acp3/module-emoticons: *
• acp3/module-errors: *
• acp3/module-feeds: *
• acp3/module-filemanager: *
• acp3/module-files: *
• acp3/module-files-comments: *
• acp3/module-files-feed: *
• acp3/module-files-search: *
• acp3/module-files-seo: *
• acp3/module-gallery: *
• acp3/module-gallery-comments: *
• acp3/module-gallery-seo: *
• acp3/module-guestbook: *
• acp3/module-guestbook-newsletter: *
• acp3/module-installer: *
• acp3/module-menus: *
• acp3/module-news: *
• acp3/module-news-comments: *
• acp3/module-news-feed: *
• acp3/module-news-search: *
• acp3/module-news-seo: *
• acp3/module-newsletter: *
• acp3/module-permissions: *
• acp3/module-polls: *
• acp3/module-search: *
• acp3/module-seo: *
• acp3/module-social-sharing: *
• acp3/module-system: *
• acp3/module-users: *
• acp3/module-wysiwyg-ckeditor: *
• acp3/module-wysiwyg-tinymce: *
• acp3/setup: *
• acp3/tests: *
• acp3/theme-default: *
• acp3/theme-installer: *

GPL-2.0-or-later

• Tino Goratsch

README

The ACP3 CMS is a highly customizable and easy to use Web Content Management System based on PHP and MySQL.

Features

• Based on modular components
• Low barriers for disabled people
• Automatic generation of breadcrumbs to improve usability even further
• Secure: protection against SQL-injections, salted passwords, complete input validation...
• Wordlike text input with the WYSIWYG-Editors CKEditor and TinyMCE
• Easy to customize: Layout based on html templates, which can be styled with CSS
• Search engine optimized URIs
• Access Control Lists, which allow fine-grained permissions

If you want to find out more information about the features and the requirements, just go to the official Project-Website.

Installation

To install the current development version directly from GitLab, you have to do the following steps:

Clone the repository into a new directory:

$ git clone https://gitlab.com/ACP3/cms.git <directory>

Make sure that you have composer already installed.

If so, execute the following command from the projects root directory:

$ composer install

Make sure that you have installed nvm (node version manager).

If so, execute the following commands from the project's root directory, to install the necessary frontend development dependencies:

$ nvm install
$ nvm use
$ npm ci

Contribute

Contributions to the ACP3 CMS are always welcome. Here is how you can contribute to ACP3:

• Submit bugs and help us verify fixes
• Submit pull requests for bug fixes, features and discuss existing proposals

Please refer to our Contribution guidelines for more details.

Coding Style Guidelines

PHP

We are using the PSR-2 Coding Style for all PHP files.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPL 2.0+.