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WordPress is a blogging software that supports multiple users, themes, widgets, and extensions that can add functionality. You can separate posts by categories and tags. It includes a WYSIWYG editor that allows you to post without having to know any code. If you are just looking to build a simple website where you can post your ideas and interact with visitors to your site, WordPress is a great place to start. |
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Drupal is an advanced CMS that includes functionality such as blogs, wikis, forums, user management, and more. It's functionality can be extended through a wide variety of modules that can add almost anything. It can be themed to look like almost any way you can think of. If you want to get an idea of what can be done with Drupal, just check out some of the sites using it. |
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PHP is a server side scripting language that can be embedded into HTML. PHP is most often used to create dynamic websites that pull information from a database (such as MySQL). |
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Apache is an open source web server that runs on Linux or Windows. While there are easier ones to setup, Apache is the most widely used because it is fast, secure, extensible, and extremely powerful. Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April 1996. |
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MySQL is a fast and reliable, open source, relational database. It is the most popular open source database in the world. MySQL integrates well with PHP and is used by well known sites such as Facebook, Youtube, and Flickr. |
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MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia. A Wiki is a set of pages on a website where any reader can freely modify the content of the page or even add new pages. You can require that users register to get permission to change the wiki. Media Wiki keeps a history of all changes to a page to allow you to easily restore a page to an earlier state. |
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Simple Machines Forum is by far the easiest forum software I have ever used in terms of installation, installing mods, daily use, and administration. I have read plenty of articles saying that it is both faster and more secure than phpBB. They have even created an API so you can easily integrate the forum into your PHP driven web site. |
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