Recommendations: Flat-file PHP CMS

[headbank]

Hi,

I'm putting up a basic website for a friend -- just a business-card job really -- but I thought I'd see how much I can achieve with PHP available and no database. I found a couple of CMSes that work without a database -- GetSimpleCMS and GuppY -- but both are presenting a few difficulties.

I wonder if anyone here has had much experience with this type of CMS/blog engine and if so, do you have any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

[Jeff Mott]

There's always going to be a database. Even a flat-file is still a database, albeit a less capable and probably slow one. But if your real goal is to have a serverless, zero-configuration database, then I recommend SQLite. You get all the benefits of a SQL database, but it reads from and writes to an ordinary disk file.

EDIT: And, it looks like people have already tried -- and succeeded -- in making the popular CMSs work with SQLite.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/s...th-wordpress-3
http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/INSTALL.sqlite.txt/7

[ralph.m]

Here are some other nice flat file / no database CMSes I've heard good things about:

http://unify.unitinteractive.com/
http://statamic.com/
http://www.pulsecms.com/
http://staceyapp.com/
http://www.cmsimple.org/
http://www.razorcms.co.uk/
http://cmsfromscratch.com/

In particular, I like Pulse, although it has a small cost.