News-Maniac provides a news script that is easy to configure, easy to customize, and feature-rich. It uses Smarty as a template engine and phpSecureSite as a session manager. Because of this, it is easily customizable and extensible, even if you haven't learned PHP. Its administration center features multiple users and four different user groups. It is XHTML 1.0 valid, and the user doesn't need a browser with JavaScript support. An RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3 backend is implemented. Installation is easy because database entries are all provided by an installation script. It supports multiple languages (currently English and German).
