phpCMS, the php based Content Management System is one of the most high performing and flexible CMS available today. Be it small private web pages or complex professional high traffics website – phpCMS is suitable for all. Above all, it is free and open source software, comes with GNU General Public License.

phpCMS is not only a simple CMS. It is a combination of template engine, content management system and an application framework.

phpCMS allows providing dynamic menus with unlimited levels, and use templates and sub-templates without requiring any database. It is search engine-friendly and proxy-friendly software. PHP code can be added to the HTML page of any template and content file with an optional module. It supports the caching of parsed pages and gzip compression.

phpCMS is the perfect content management system for beginners as well as for professionals. It provides immense freedom to the web designers for exploring their creativity because it keeps page layout separate from the actual content – this made it the most popular CMS among the designers.

phpCMS does the following tasks easily including: automatic updating of the sitemap, central administration of menu entries, and provision of a comprehensive text search.

phpCMS comes with various modules. These are:
· Parser module - the most important part of phpCMS, creates several elements like menu structure, layout and content the web sites.
· The cache module - provides multi-level caching, which makes this CMS flexible
· The menu module – for defining the central menu structure of the site