ocPortal

ocPortal
ocPortal
Developer(s) ocProducts Ltd
Initial release February, 2004 [1]
Stable release 7.1.5 / 06th September, 2011
Development status Active
Available in English
Type Content Management System
License CPAL
Website ocportal.com

ocPortal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP and based on a MySQL backend database. The software has been developed by British software developer Chris Graham since 2004,[2] with contributions from programmers Chris Warburton, Paul Duffy & Philip Withnall and designer Allen Ellis.[3]

Contents

Associated companies

Bitnami announced the release of a new installer stack for ocPortal towards the end of June in 2009 [4]. Installatron, a plugin for hosting control panels also includes ocPortal within its list of included scripts [5]. In early 2010 ocPortal was one of the first websites to use Facebook's Hiphop HP on a live site and in Production. ocProducts founder Chris Graham completed a number of tests and reported a number of bugs which had not yet been found by Facebook[6].

Features

ocPortal has a number of features which can be included when installing the software or added later [7]. Some of those features are:[8]

Standards compliance

ocPortal complies with a number standards.[9] covering areas such as web publishing, accessibility and internationalization, metadata and data storage and distribution.

Web publishing

HTTP 1.1, XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.1, HTML5 rel semantics, OpenSearch 1.0, DOM, SVG & ECMAScript

Accessibility and internationalisation

WCAG 1.0 and 2.0, with support for AAA, Unicode, ATAG[10], Internationalisation, UK Government, recommendation for access keys & Section 508,

Data and feeds

XML, RSS 2.0 (all formats/variants), Atom 1.0, iCalendar 2.0, LDAP 3 & OPML.

Metadata

Dublin Core, hCalendar, hCard, hReview, rel-nofollow, rel-enclosure, rel-license, rel-tag & XFN (limited support)

Criticisms

ocPortal's weak points have been noted as its relatively small community. Very few community addons or themes have been released for ocPortal [11] when compared to projects such as Drupal and Joomla. [12]

Early versions of ocPortal were hit with a setback in the form of a HTTP Remote File Include security vulnerability which “presents itself when an attacker provides a remote path to the 'req_path' variable through the URL” [13]. This security vulnerability was fixed in later versions and several processes were added to make any future vulnerabilities less likely.

History

ocPortal was originally released in February 2004 [1] and the current version is Version 7.1.5. In September of 2009 ocPortal was added to the CMS reports top 30 web applications from a list of 1,700 [14]. In December 2009 ocProducts moved to new offices in Sheffield [15]

Version history

  • March 2004 – version 1 Released; Included limited page support & basic features [16]
  • August 2004 – version 2 Released; Software largely re-architected
  • November 2004 – version 2.1; introduced member database, attachments
  • October 2005 – version 2.5; Added discussion forums
  • July 2006 – version 3 Released; Included a UI overhaul
  • August 2008 – version 4 Released
  • January 2009 – Included in the Opensource CMS Demo program [17]
  • June 2009 - included in the Killerstartup's “Web App Tools” list [18]
  • September 2009 - version 4.2 released. [19]; Included Joomla, Wordpress & HTML website importers
  • February 2010 version 4.3 released [20]
  • July 2010 version 5 released [21]; Included a major Adminzone overhaul, Gallery re-design, Added the ability to transcode video and an innovative real time visual usage tracker.
  • March 2011 version 6 released [22]; Included many performance improvements, stability improvements, and usability improvements.
  • May 2011 version 7 released [23]

References

  1. ^ a b Quarkbase information relating to ocPortal
  2. ^ Interview with Chris Graham on The Admin Zone website
  3. ^ About ocProducts
  4. ^ Bitnami press release
  5. ^ Installatron ocPortal script
  6. ^ Facebook engineering blog post
  7. ^ The Industry Standard, 3.18.10
  8. ^ CMS Matrix ocPortal page
  9. ^ ocPortal standards list
  10. ^ ocPortal ATAG Compliance
  11. ^ WebmasterFormat review of ocPortal
  12. ^ Alexa traffic rank
  13. ^ Symantec Security Response
  14. ^ CMS Report - ocPortal added to CMS Reports top 30 List
  15. ^ Syndication of ocPortal news relating to the new office
  16. ^ ocPortal history – major versions
  17. ^ Opensource CMS ocPortal Review page
  18. ^ Killer Startups ocPortal listing
  19. ^ CMS Wire Version 4.2 release article
  20. ^ CMS Report Version 4.3 release article
  21. ^ ocPortal Version 5 release article
  22. ^ ocPortal Version 6 release article
  23. ^ [1]

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