In a new article from Builder.com today, the topic of content management via Yaapi and PHP is discussed.

If you're a developer building a content-rich Web site, you've probably looked at several solutions that include (a) a database for your content, (b) a templating system that separates GUI from content, (c) a user-friendly interface to maintain the data in the database, and (d) control over the final appearance of the rendered pages.

One very interesting solution that offers all of the above is Yaapi, an acronym for "Your Article Application Programming Interface." It's a PHP class that offers built-in methods to access content stored in a database. An administration module ships with the class to assist in managing the data, while the API itself is sufficiently sophisticated to perform most common tasks required of a CMS.

They go through a simple installation and show you how to add some content to the database, pull it back out, and format it to fit your needs. The Yaapi package is a nice, light, clean CMS that can help anyone with a bit of time and some PHP/MySQL/Apache knowhow to get a site up and running quickly.