TangoCMS is a modular PHP content management system released free of charge under the GNU/GPL 2 license, and is part of the TangoCMS Project^[1]. One of the top priorities for the project is to stick to standards and best coding practices, such as making sure all mark-up complies to the World Wide Web Consortium HTML standards, using semantically correct mark-up^[2].

TangoCMS allows the owner/administrator of the website to create and manage content with no previous programming knowledge, including customizing the entire layout, user management and other administrative tasks.

Modules

The default modules distributed by TangoCMS are what work together to form an actual Content Management System within the TangoCMS Project. Modules are simply a group of controllers, views and models for the Zula Framework. Due to the inherent modular nature of a MVC framework, this means the actual feature set of TangoCMS can be fine-tuned to specific needs, as modules can be disabled and enabled easily through the AdminCP.

New modules can be created easily, if you have knowledge of PHP5 OOP and a basic understanding of the MVC structure.

TangoCMS offers 17 modules by default, (as of the 2.1 “Panda” series) which implement features such as^[5]:

• Articles/Blog Entries
• Media (Image, Video and Audio) Galleries
• Polls
• RSS Feeds
• Update Notifier