Phoenix CMS (Content Management System) get that name by being built on the "ashes" of all similar systems I
had the opportunity to work with. This does not mean that the Phoenix was
built using "copy-paste" method. On the contrary, all code is written from
scratch, and only good ideas were taken from other systems. Moreover,
in the everyday work I have frequent contacts with the site
administrators, and I know very well all the problems they are facing. I
tried to remove all sources of these problems within the Phoenix CMS.
During creation of Phoenix CMS a great attention has been payed to security issues. Today, hacker intrusion attempts on sites are almost daily occurrences, and if the problem is not taken very seriously a lot of damage can be made.
For running Phoenix CMS so called LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) enviroment is needed.This may sound somehow exotic, but it's most usually used environment on the Net, and if there are hosting companies that do not support it - they certainly are not worth engaging.
Phoenix CMS is based on Smarty template engine. The reasons are: Smarty successfuly separates developer from design part of work, it's officially supported by PHP community, actively developed and has strong technical support, uses numerous methods of speed optimization, and so on ...
Please take a look at pages with a little bit more detailed description of frontend-a and backend-a .