My new client wants a site very similar to this one: trato.fr/fr/products/. Gallery image of the products + details for each.

I thought to use a e-commerce system (such as magento or zen cart) but actually the client doesn't need a shopping cart. He just wants to be able to add new categories, products and description of the product.

Besides, visitors should be able to download the technical documentation of a product. You can see an example at trato.fr/fr/products/products.php?h=2&p=97#. It is called "Fiche Technique" in french (the PDF document at the bottom).

Do you know any CMS that would do that or should I code the site myself (in that case I will use a PHP framework).

Thanks.

Well, you could use an e-commerce solution like osCommerce, magento or zencart, and modify the script to remove the shopping cart functionality. That would be your best bet, I think.

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er.. i thought that looked ugly

If you know how to, code it yourself.
If you dont feel like doing so, just do what brother said.

You may be able to use a CMS out, like 4images or even something like drupal (i know my friend used it at one stage)

Have you looked into Joomla?

Is Joomla seriously that good?
A few people have recommended it for eCommerce, but I didnt think it would be what an eCommerce site would be looking for...

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Joomla is first and foremost a blog. It's just much more powerful than Wordpress or Blogger. It can however be used as other types of sites and has plenty of free add-ons, including image galleries, to make it whatever you want.

thanks =]

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Subdreamer is really nice, unfortunately it's not free.

What are some others besides joomla?

Well Joomla seems to be the favorite, but there are plenty of other things, such as e107, OsCommerce, Drupal, umm.. There was a box one that looked alright but I don't know where it is.

Try look at opensourcecms.com

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