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

News

Cotonti Siena 0.9.23 released2023-06-22

Whats new:

  • Added Composer support.
  • Added PSR-4: Autoloader for classes
  • Improved cot_mail() function to follow RFC 2822. Added support for several recipients, CC and BCC recipients and custom sender (from)
  • Added check for file existence for hooks
  • Implemented first part of logging system improvement
  • Install - prevent execution of more than 1 process at a time
  • CKEditor updated to v4.21.0
  • Plugins 'BBcode Parser' and 'MarkItUp!' are removed from standard 'box'
  • Fixed some bugs.

You can find removed plugins here: BBcode Parser and MarkItUp!

Read more on the release page.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the work on this release, programming and testing

 

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Extensions updates2023-04-20

Recently, the project participants have updated a number of extensions:

Recent comments for Administrators, Pageavatar, Similar Pages, Table of Contents, Files module, User's recent posts, User's pages

Also the Yukon admin panel theme was updated

Added new extension and theme: User's translate и Adminkacota

Read more details on the corresponding extensions pages.
Enjoy using them :)

Cotonti Siena 0.9.22 released2023-03-19

What's new:

  • Force HTTPS. If you are using HTTPS but for some reason it is not detected automatically, enable this option in config.php
  • Ability to add attributes to included JS/CSS files via the Resources class
  • Refactored and ordered icons and resources that use them
  • Detailed information about PHP installed on the server (phpinfo) has been added to the admin panel
  • CKEditor updated to version 4.20.2
  • Minor admin panel update
  • Fixed some missing lines in language files
  • There is still some code that is not adapted to php 8.1. But there is less and less of it. In this release, we continued to work on this.
  • Fixed some bugs.

The 'Table Of Contents' plugin has also been updated

There are some breaking changes and new tags in tpl files. Read more on the release page.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the work on this release, programming and testing: KortDayver, webitproffKabak and Alex300

 

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Cotonti Siena 0.9.21 released2022-10-17

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 released2022-08-14

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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