Xaraya

✅ Full modular architecture: Strict separation between content, presentation, and functionality — each component is an independent module that can be installed and deactivated independently.

✅ Powerful privileges system: Highly granular access control allowing access to any content or feature to be granted or denied with very precise parameters, for each user or group.

✅ BlockLayout template engine: Proprietary XML-based template system enabling designers to customise the appearance without requiring advanced PHP knowledge.

✅ Dynamic Data model (DD): Creation of custom content objects and extension of existing modules with tailored properties, without any additional development.

✅ Complete multilingual system (MLS): Full translation of the interface and content, with localisation of dates, times, and regional data.

✅ Robust and extensible API: A comprehensive programming interface providing access to and manipulation of all server data, modules, and Xaraya subsystems.

🚀 Hooks system: An event-driven mechanism allowing any module to extend the behaviour of another — for example, adding comments, ratings, or statistics to any type of content.

📊 Dynamic Data (DD): A data modelling tool enabling administrators to create custom business objects, define their properties, and export them between Xaraya sites.

🔌 Modular authentication: Support for alternative authentication methods via dedicated modules (LDAP, PAM, etc.), enabling integration with enterprise directories.

🔗 Short URL support: Automatic generation of friendly, SEO-optimised URLs for the majority of modules, with no complex configuration required.

📦 Block system: Free positioning of dynamic content (menus, RSS feeds, polls, widgets) in any zone of the page layout.

💡 Multiple use cases: The platform is suited to blog portals, online communities, e-commerce sites, brochure websites, corporate intranets, and custom web applications.

🔹 Strict validation of all inputs: Xaraya sanitises and validates all user-submitted data by default, reducing the risk of SQL injection and XSS attacks.

🔹 Granular privileges system: Fine-grained access control allowing each resource or feature to be individually granted or denied for each user or group.

🔹 Multi-level authentication: Management of administrator, contributor, and visitor roles, with an LDAP login module for enterprise authentication.

🔹 Secure session management: Protection of user sessions with mechanisms to prevent session hijacking attacks.

🔹 Built-in security module: A dedicated tool for monitoring connections, managing unauthorised access attempts, and administering user rights.

🔹 Web standards compliance: Adherence to XHTML, CSS, and W3C recommendations for a clean, secure codebase.

✔️ Exemplary modular architecture: Perfect separation between content, presentation, and functionality — a particularly clean and elegant design model.

✔️ Very powerful privileges system: One of the most granular and flexible access control systems among PHP open source CMS platforms of its era.

✔️ Database independence: MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite compatibility via PHP-ADODB — a rare feature among PHP CMS platforms of 2002.

✔️ Completely free and open source: GPL licence, source code available on GitHub, with no licensing fees whatsoever.

✔️ Maximum extensibility: The Hooks and Dynamic Data systems allow the platform to be customised and extended without ever modifying the core.

✔️ Native multilingual support: Integrated MLS system covering both the interface and content, with support for over 40 languages via community language packs.

❌ Project in end-of-life (abandonware): The last stable release dates from 2013; active development has largely ceased, introducing unpatched security risks.

❌ Steep learning curve: The advanced architecture (Hooks, BlockLayout, Dynamic Data, MLS) is complex to master, particularly for beginners.

❌ Sparse and mostly English-only documentation: Learning resources are scarce, outdated, and almost entirely absent outside of English.

❌ Very small community: The active user base has become marginal; community support is nearly non-existent compared to modern CMS platforms.

❌ Incompatibility with recent PHP versions: The 1.x branch does not support PHP 7+ without patches, and the 2.x branch is limited to PHP 5 without a third-party fork.