Although the site above has a lot of informations it’s really hard to find a CMS that fits your needs, most of the people who use this kind of tools are regular users and their main goal is to install and manage the CMS with success.

That way most of the reviews that I’ve found are written without a developers perspective.

At the moment I need to find a CMS that is Open Source, written in PHP under a Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, that has some good support/documentation and a big community behind it.

Till now, the only one that I found that fulfills the specs above is Joomla! Unfortunately I’ve already read some bad reviews on it, saying that it’s too complex and it’s code is a bit messy.

I’ll keep on searching, but in the next few days I’ll have to make a decision so that I can start working.

If you have any useful informations on this subject please tell me something.

Some of the features are:

• Built on top of PHP 5, for me that’s a plus since I’m only working with PHP 5 at the moment.
• MVC support makes application building faster and easier.
• CRUD generator will reduce code repetitions and useless boring time spent on building this tasks.
• Lots of support, when you start learning something new, all the support available you can get is a plus.
• And a lot of other features, such as: Ajax support, smart URL’s, cache management, multilingualism and l18N support, scaffolding, among others. You can check the features list at Symfony Project website.

The only thing I think it’s a bit hard, is the learning curve. What I mean is, you really have to “waste” some time to get to know how the application works, but I think in the end it will compensate.