CMS with support of Multilingual and custom url rewriting

Question

I'm searching a CMs that can offer me these features :

• Localized fields with a custom number of languages

• Each article belong to a category that may have parent categories

• language and category could be calculated from url example /en/maincategory/subcategory/my-article-url-rewrite

I was looking in drupal for these features. I haven't yet found something on localization. I have found another solution that could satisfy my need which is Plone but I can't decide which can can give me what I want. Can Drupal do all this ? Plone ? Or there is another solution ?

Answer 1

Plone seems quite a good choice for this project.

• Localization can be handled using the excellent product LinguaPlone;
• Hierachical categories can be handled using collective.virtualtreecategories, or using hierarchical vocabularies and a custom field with a collective.dynatree widget (I did something similar in a recent project);
• Plone does not retrive content using URL dispatch, but path traversal; however, using correct content placement inside folders, you can have a directory structure that complies with your format.

Of course, you will also have access to Plone's powerful User and Group management facilities, ACLs, workflow engine, and many other features.

If you are knowledgable in Python, you might also want to look at Django, which is more like a framework than a CMS, but hey...