Profile/Submission CMS?
 

Usually I right my own code from scratch, but to cut the amount of time, I'm looking for an already created cms-type framework that would preferably be flatfile - but it should allow users to submit 'articles' and then an admin could validate/edit/approve it before it gets posted or shown.

I know about cutenews, but I want the entire cp to skinnable - cutenews doesn't have this. Ideally, I'm looking for something where users submit info - I approve/delete it, and it gets shown on the site - with categories, etc.

Mambo, Joomla are too resource intensive and are too bulky, just wondering if anyone knows a flat file way to do this - I may have to script it myself if it doesn't exist.

i would recommend you to take a look at sNews by Solucija, although i also like to write my own code i found it really simple and effective for some projects i had. Quoted from their homepage:

More info here and you can download it here ( check the multi user version for having several editors and admins)

unfortunately it's not flatfile, and it requires htaccess - if you don't have htaccess will it still work (of course no seo urls but will it work at all?)

I think it's going to be really awkward not using a database, it's why databases were created so data could be retried and organised efficently.

My bad, i didnt noticed you asked for a flatfile based cms, beyond that no, sNews wont work without .htaccess. sorry

You might wanna check phpCMS, never used it but seems to have all the requirements you are looking for, hope that helps.

thnx I'll check it out.

@winserv
You would probably be amazed by some of the stuff I've worked on for a few sites. Flatfile can do anything SQL can - and it actually works alot faster then SQL. Granted it can be tricky and you need to properly organize the data from the very beginning, but it pays off well if the site has heavy traffic.

One site I worked on for someone has a lot of traffic, and if I were to use SQL it would have been pretty expensive (system resource wise). You can speed up your scripts by using flat file, that's why I prefer it -plus it makes backups/restores very easy and lightweight. You should take a crack at flatfile sometime.