User:Aaron Liu/Contao

The Contao content management system has built-in search engine, file manager and form builder tools and features automatic live updating. With its CSS framework and built-in jQuery and MooTools libraries, it readily supports multilingual content (UTF-8 character set) throughout), as well as for documentation and in the back-end administration area, uses Web 2.0 and Ajax techniques and offers version control and cancellation management (undo/redo), permitting a user to review and, if necessary, roll back changes to a prior state. Although the program makes use of a graphical interface, many program instructions require resorting to a command-line interface.[https://docs.contao.org/manual/en/cli/ Command Line], Accessed 13 August 2024. From the administration area, a user may choose to install, update or uninstall any of over 1,700 extensions or update the database.[https://docs.contao.org/manual/en/introduction/contao-quickstart/ Contao Quick Start], Quick Start, Accessed 13 August 2024..

As of version 5.0, Contao requires a web server that routes requests to PHP, PHP version 8.1+, MySQL 5.7+ or an equivalent MariaDB version, and 11 PHP extensions. Contao is compatible with and recommends using the latest version of PHO and MySQL/MariaDB.{{Citation |title=System requirements |work=Contao Manual |url=https://docs.contao.org/manual/en/installation/system-requirements/ |access-date=2024-08-13}}

At launch, Contao was named TYPOlight. To avoid confusion with TYPO3—another open-source CMS—{{Citation |last=Laurent |first=Pierre-Edouard |title=Avis Contao : un CMS orienté flexibilité et organisation |date=2021-08-30 |work=Clubic |url=https://www.clubic.com/pro/creation-de-site-web/test-produit-376041-avis-contao-2021-un-cms-oriente-flexibilite-et-organisation.html |access-date=2024-09-15 |language=fr}}and the association of "light" with having a small number of features, it was renamed to Contao in 2010 with version 2.6.{{Citation |last=Schürmann |first=Tim |title=Erweiterungen im PHP-CMS Contao |work=Linux Magazin |volume=2013 |issue=11 |publication-date=November 2013 |trans-title=Extensions in PHP-CMS Contao |url=https://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgaben/2013/11/contao/ |access-date=2024-09-20 |language=de-DE}}[https://contao.org/neuigkeiten/items/typolight-wird-zu-contao.html Aus TYPOlight wird Contao] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120101150226/http://www.contao.org/neuigkeiten/items/typolight-wird-zu-contao.html |date=2012-01-01 }} (German)

In his Contao book, Peter Müller offered his interpretation of the name: C, O, and N are the first letters of content, and tạo is a Vietnamese word that means 'to model, generate or shape'; together, the name represents how Contao "allows content to be generated, shaped and managed".Peter Müller, "Das ist Contao", in Websites erstellen mit Contao. Galileo Computing, 2010, p. 25. {{ISBN|978-3-8362-1651-7}}

In 2007 Packt Publishing named TYPOlight, as Contao was then known, the second-place winner in its "Most Promising Open-Source CMS" awards category.[http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners Open Source CMS Award, Previous Winners] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707094004/http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners |date=2009-07-07 }} at packtpub.com In 2023, Pierre Edouard Laurent of Clubic gave Contao an 8 out of 10 for its light resource usage, simplicity, and features despite conceding its high entry barrier.

{{As of|November 2023}}, Contao is the sixth most widely used CMS int he world with 0.5% of the market share. It is mostly used in Germany and Switzerland.

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• Leo Feyer: Das offizielle Contao-Handbuch: Der Leitfaden für Anwender, Administratoren und Entwicklung (Official Contao manual: Guide for users, administrators and developers). Addison-Wesley, Munich 2010. {{ISBN|978-3-8273-3014-7}}
• Thomas Weitzel: Mit Contao Webseiten erfolgreich gestalten: Konzeption, Umsetzung, Beispielprojekte (Successful Contao websites: design, implementation, sample projects). Addison-Wesley, Munich 2010, 264 pages. {{ISBN|978-3-8273-2892-2}}
• Nina Gerling: Contao für Redakteure: Inhalte editieren und verwalten mit dem Open-Source-CMS (Contao for editors: Edit and manage content using the open source CMS). Pearson Deutschland, Munich 2010. {{ISBN|978-3-8273-2893-9}} [http://www.contao-handbuch.de/buchindex.html Online Handbuch]
• Anne-Kathrin Merz: Contao: Das umfassende Praxisbuch (Contao: The comprehensive practice book). Addison-Wesley, 2010. {{ISBN|978-3-8266-5532-6}}
• Peter Müller: Websites erstellen mit Contao (Create websites with Contao). Galileo Computing, 2010, 536 pages. {{ISBN|978-3-8362-1651-7}}, third edition (2012), {{ISBN|978-3-8362-2010-1}}
• Thomas Reindlmeier: Contao: Webseiten clever gestalten (Contao: cleverly designed websites). KnowWare, Osnabrück, 2010, {{ISBN|978-87-91364-93-8}}

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