Web Content Management Systems

eZ Publish – PHP application framework

eZ Publish is a professional PHP application framework with advanced CMS (content management system) functionality. As a CMS its most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable and extendable content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general PHP development, allowing people to develop professional Internet applications fast.

Standard CMS functionality, like news publishing, e-commerce and forums is already implemented and ready for you to use. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform, database independent PHP projects.

eZ Publish is database, platform and browser independent. Because it is browser based it can be used and updated from anywhere as long as you have access to the Internet.

Features include:

  • User defined content classes and objects.
  • Advanced search engine.
  • Role based permissions system.
  • Advanced template engine.
  • Version control.
  • Professional workflow management.
  • Multi-lingual support.
  • Support for Unicode.
  • Task system for easy collaboration.
  • Image conversion and scaling.
  • Database abstraction layer.
  • XML handling and parsing library.
  • SOAP communication library.
  • Localisation and internationalisation libraries.
  • Several other reusable libraries.
  • SDK (software development kit).
  • Full documentation.

Website: ezplatform.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: eZ Systems
License: GNU General Public License or eZ Publish Professional License

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Graham Brookins
Graham Brookins
2 months ago

Please update your article to show eZ Publish 6.0 on PHP 8.3. It’s just been released for everyone to install.

Maybe show users how eZ Publish 6.0 can be installed via composer.

eZ Publish lives on side by side with eZ Platform.

Graham Brookins
Graham Brookins
2 months ago

Installation example command: composer require se7enxweb/ezpublish:v6.0.0;

Graham Brookins
Graham Brookins
2 months ago

Please update your article to reflect that ezsystems is now called ibexa and they stopped eZ Publish 5.4 releases over 10 years ago and the community of eZ Publish developers has kept it running until 7x stepped up to continue releasing the cms

Graham Brookins
Graham Brookins
2 months ago

You should have separate articles for eZ Publish and eZ Platform as they represent different feature sets and requirements for installation and development.