Aliro is designed to carry forward the state of the art in CMS development. It fully exploits PHP 5 and also requires MySQL 5. It adopts totally object oriented architecture. Efficiency, flexibility, accessibility are key goals. Practically speaking, Aliro comprises three distinct projects:

• A framework for creating a CMS that works as a platform for building add-ons. Key goals are to provide a consistent range of valuable services to add-ons and to be a comfortable and effective development environment. The framework has an administrator interface, but requires add-ons to provide a non-trivial user interface.
• Some basic add-ons that provide sufficient services to turn the Aliro framework into a CMS. There is no obligation to use this particular set of add-ons, and others are encouraged to develop better alternatives, either as part of this project or as independent projects.
• Provision of services for developers working outside the main Aliro project. These include the ability to create and download usable skeletons for new add-ons that kick start the creation process and the hosting of a translation repository that provides for add-ons to be lodged and for translators to create gettext compatible language packs for them. Visit the dedicated developer site.