Cotonti is a powerful open-source web development framework and content manager with a focus on security, speed and flexibility.

Why choose Cotonti?

Cotonti combines the flexibility of a web framework with the rapid deployability and featureset of a content management system. Despite having features such as user accounts, content creation, file management and community tools out of the box, it can be easily extended using modules or plugins. Cotonti is powered by its own template engine which is both fast and easy to learn, even if you are not an experienced programmer.

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Major features

  • Open source, community driven
  • Secure and reliable
  • Fast and lightweight
  • Modular and extensible
  • Layout separated from logic
  • Fast and easy template engine
  • Internationalized
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News

Cotonti Siena 0.9.21 released 2022-10-17

Whats new:

  • Removed outdated 'News' plugin. Please use 'Index news' instead.
  • The CotDB class has been rewritten. We have taken the first step to using different databases, not just MySQL.
  • The cot_import_date() function can now accept string values. Date/time values ​​are allowed in any format that the strtotime() function supports. See: https://www.php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.time.php. This makes it easier to use different datepickers on the frontend.
  • Compatibility with PHP 8.1
  • Htmlpurifier updated to version 4.15.0
  • Improvements in 'i18n' plugin. (Support for multilingual content in core and extensions)
  • Several improvements and fixes
  • Lots of fixes and improvements

For more detailed info see:

Commits list

Closed 0.9.21 issues

 

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Cotonti Siena 0.9.20 released 2022-08-14

Whats new:

  • Dropped support of PHP 5.3, now minimal requirements is PHP 5.4
  • Compatibility with PHP 8.0. We are waiting for the Htmlpurifier update to implement compatibility with PHP 8.1
  • CKEditor updated to version 4.19.1
  • Htmlpurifier updated to version 4.14.0
  • Installer errors have been fixed
  • Improved work with MySQL (InnoDB engine instead of MyISAM, and utf8mb4 charset)
  • Improved email sending
  • Lots of fixes and improvements

For more detailed info see:

Commits list

Closed 0.9.20 issues

 

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Language files on Transifex 2016-07-18

As far as you can know we host language files of our project on Transifex service. It allows any user to collaborate in Cotonti translation for any language. 

This announcement had posted to inform you that all files in Siena project is updated to actual 0.9.19 and wait for your help in translation.

1 Comments | Author: Macik

Code reference is updated to 0.9.19 2016-06-30

We update our API and code reference according to 0.9.19 version.

By the way —

  • we renew page styles to be more clean and pretty
  • fix source code listing error that cause unexpected redirects 
  • source code listings now have a syntax highlighting
0 Comments | Author: Macik

Cotonti Siena 0.9.19 released 2016-06-24

We glad to announce the long-awaited 0.9.19 release!

Let's see what we get with it:

in total of 217 commits.

We work hard and we get it! Thanks for this release contributors and our community volunteers.

 

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7 Comments | Author: Macik