About Dragonfly CMS

• A little of history
  Dragonfly CMS is a powerful, feature-rich, Open Source content management system originally based on PHP-Nuke 6.5. Since the early "CPG-Nuke CMS" days, we paid close attention to security, performance, scalability, efficiency and reliability. Subsequent development of DragonflyCMS marked yet another exciting milestone in our history.
  
  
• Server requirements
  The minimum requirements are
  PHP 5.4.
  MySQL 4.1 or PostgreSQL 7.
  Apache 1.3, IIS5, Raiden and others.
  
  
• Preferred setup
  PHP 5.6.
  MySQL 5 or PostgreSQL 9.
  Latest version of the web server used.
  At least one image manipulation software: GD2, GraphicsMagick (v10) or ImageMagick.
  

• Why Dragonfly CMS
  We maintain a high level of security and a slow release cycle. So that you spend time managing your site, not patching or updating.
  
  
• Dragonfly CMS support
  Knowledge that Dragonfly CMS is a free software. While the software is tested and great support is provided trough our forums, we do not offer or guarantee any warranty or support. Please read our Rules and Regulations.
  
  
• Dragonfly CMS community
  You will find a wide range of resources, GPL and Commercial, in the following links:
  - Foreign Languages: Read/write in your own language
  - Resource Digest: Themes, modules, blocks and custom coding.
  
  

Dragonfly Core Features

• Caching and accelerators
  Cache control panel.
  Templates and settings caching.
  Schedule based RSS caching.
  MMCache and eAccelerator control support (when installed on server).
  Control panel to bcompile (when installed on server) your website, highly experimental.
  
  
• SQL
  Conforms to, and require, SQL:1999 standards.
  Supports MariaDB/MySQL and PostgreSQL.
  Prepared queries, write to master and read from slave (v10).
  
  
• Security
  Security control panel.
  CSRF protection (v10).
  Encrypted login cookies (v10).
  Extensive antispam solution (v10).
  
  CVE details: Dragonfly vs Joomla vs WordPress vs Drupal
  
  
• i18n UTF-8 Integration
  International language support
  Dragonfly auto-detects the users language and sets as default.
  Configurable by user or admin override
  All languages fully UTF-8 encoded, simplified file structure
  Afrikaans, Shqip, عربي, Bosanski, Basque, Brazilian Português, Chinese simplified, 汉语 , Български, Český, Dansk, Nederlands, Eesti, پارسى, Suomi, Français, Galego, Deutsch, Ελληνικά, Magyarul, Íslenska, Indonesian, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Kurdi, Latvisks, Lietuvių, македонски, Melayu, Norsk, Polski, Português, Româneste, Pусский, Srpski, Slovenský, Slovenščina, Español, Kiswahili, Svensk, ไทย, Türkçe, Uyghurche, Українська, Tiếng Việt, and English
  
  
• BBcode Enhancements
  Use BBcode in all postings
  HTML support (admin only)
  Multimedia support (flash, video, etc.)
  
  
• Dragonfly SCM
  Get the source
  Project home
  Project statistics
  
  
• EMail Support
  Full site-wide SMTP/PHP mail, email support.
  

Dragonfly Interface Features

• Advanced Administration Features
  Installer with rollback support in case of failure
  Which sideblocks to show on module level
  Groups Administration allows the restriction of a module or block to a given group
  Members Administration (admin area)
  Sub-Administrator admin, allows the administrators of a given module or set of modules
  Custom smiles with i18n language support
  Admin menu ordered by category
  Unrestricted HTML for admin posts
  Ordered news (allows you to arrange the order of news)
  BBcode news stories and submissons
  Send member private message on registration
  Advanced Debugging system and page query list (including times)
  Admin notepad for sharing messages with other admins
  Server information module
  Administrators can always change their password
  Control over security areas like flooding, email and referral spam.
  Recognition of existing, and addition of new, search engine bots.
  
  
• Custom Group Features
  Blocks: Set blocks to be visible only to group members
  Messages: Set messages to be visible only to group members
  Modules: Set modules to be visible only to group members
  
  
• Dragonfly Theme Features
  Theme preview system
  Themes have collapsible side and center blocks, and forum categories.
  Hide left - right - both side-blocks on command.
  CSS Menu dynamically linked to database driven menu.
  Full template capability for ease of customization.
  
  
• Dragonfly Custom Features
  Preview theme system
  Language selection block (select international languages i18n)
  Send newsletter to a group
  Highly advanced "My Account" module
  Add-ons system, just install what you need
  Integrated quick reply to forums and private messages
  Integrated forum attachments
  Integrated forum topic icons
  Site statistics include recognition of web browsers and search engines
  Search module allows sitewide searching
  FAQ module includes searching and sorting
  
  
• My Account
  Customizable COPPA agreement form (memberships config area)
  Customizable user registration page (memberships config area)
  Completely configurable memberships (memberships config area)
  Advanced avatar system including upload and avatar size checking
  
  
• Coppermine Photo Gallery
  Multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web picture gallery
  Complete groups integration and adminstration
  Supports uploads and user galleries
  
  
• Forums
  High powered, fully scalable, bulletin board package
  Groups Integration and Administration
  Derived from phpBB 2.0.x (phpbb.com)
  Clean linking (session ID is removed from URL)
  Attachment Mod, Topic Icons Mod and Merge Topics Mod included