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Technical Introduction

to the Reason content management/publishing system

  • Overview

    Reason is a PHP/MySQL-based content management and publishing system currently serving 75+ sites

  • What's in Reason?

    Reason maintains and stores a variety of data types, meta data, and relationships.

  • What is Reason a client of?

    Reason publishes information drawn from several sources

  • How does Reason publish content?

    Reason can publish content on web pages, as xml feeds, and in pdf documents.

  • Attributes of the Reason system

    Reason provides a number of features, such as reusability and sharing of data, real-time access, distributed management, accessibile/standards-compliant output, and multilingual support.