Bricolage (software)

infobox Software
name = Bricolage



caption = Bricolage's administration panel
developer = David Wheeler
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Content management system
latest_release_version = 1.10.5
latest_release_date = release date|2008|04|29
license = BSD license
website = http://bricolage.cc/

Bricolage is a content management system (CMS) written in the Perl programming language.

Bricolage has been touted as an Enterprise Class CMS, [Citation | last = Rapoza | first = Jim | author-link = http://www.eweek.com/author_bio/0,1908,a=2164,00.asp | title = Enterprise Apps, Bricolage 1.8.1 | publisher = eWEEK.com | date = August 2, 2004 | year = 2004 | url = http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1627959,00.asp | accessdate = 09/12/2007] competitive in features and capability to high end, high cost proprietary products. [Citation | last = Pastore | first = Michael | title = Faster, More Flexible Bricolage Challenges CM Vendors | publisher = Intranetjournal.com | date = 5/5/2003 | year = 2003 | url = http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200305/ij_05_05_03a.html | accessdate = 09/12/2007] Examples of organizations whose web sites use Bricolage include the World Health Organization, Rand Corporation and Macworld.

Originally authored by David Wheeler to manage content for Salon.com, Bricolage is now maintained by a small group of core developers. Released under the revised BSD license, Bricolage is free and open source software.

Design

Bricolage runs on the Apache web server on the Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Solaris platforms. It uses the PostgreSQL database management system and mod_perl. [cite book | last = Rolskey | first = Dave | coauthors = Williams, Ken | title = Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason | publisher = O'REILLY | date = 2002 | pages = 260 - 279 | url = http://www.masonbook.com/book/appendix-d.mhtml | isbn = 0-596-00225-4]

Bricolage is inherently a multi user CMS, [Citation | last = Lerner | first = Reuven | author-link = http://lerner.co.il/ | title = At the Forge - Bricolage | publisher = Linux Journal | date = 2006-10-25 | year = 2003 | url = http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6934 | accessdate = 09/12/2007 ] designed to manage workflow for large websites with many contributors. [Citation | last = Lerner | first = Reuven | author-link = http://lerner.co.il/ | title = At the Forge - Publishing with Bricolage | publisher = Linux Journal | date = 2004-01-01 | year = 2004 | url = http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7202 | accessdate = 09/12/2007 ] Bricolage uses a template development model and completely separates presentation from management of content. The CMS can (and often does) reside on a different server than the web site or other data store being managed. [Citation | last = Gibbs | first = Mark | author-link = http://www.linuxworld.com/Home/mgibbs.html | title = A look at Bricolage open source CMS | publisher = Linux World | date = 08/17/05 | year = 2005 | url = http://www.linuxworld.com/newsletters/web/2005/0815web2.html | accessdate = 09/12/2007 ]

Native PHP support was added in Bricolage 1.10, [Citation | title = Kineticode Releases Bricolage 1.10 | publisher = Kineticode, Inc. | date = January 23, 2006 | year = 2006 | url = http://www.linuxworld.com/newsletters/web/2005/0815web2.html | accessdate = 08/05/2008 ] that embeds a PHP 5 interpreter inside a Perl 5 interpreter. As a result, PHP code runs in a native PHP 5 environment, but can also transparently make use of any and all Perl libraries, including the complete Bricolage API.

See also

* List of content management systems

References

External links

* [http://bricolage.cc/ Project home page]