PHP Language - Content Management Portal

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Content Management Portal

Fabri

2006-03-23, 7:58 am

Hallo everyone,

I'm planning to start a website offering services as:

Registration
Forum
Private sections
Announcements
Chat
Private Messages
....
and so on...

Which Content Management Portal is better for my idea in PHP+MySql?

Any help much appreciated.

Best regards.

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IT-Manager

2006-03-23, 7:58 am

Ciao,
Ho notato che hai bisognio d'aiuto - se vuoi ti posso aiutare. il mio MSN:
info@adit[no_spam].pl Consultazione gratuita :)

Adam

2006-03-23, 6:58 pm

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:59:54 +0100, Fabri wrote:

>I'm planning to start a website offering services as:
>
>Registration
>Forum
>Private sections
>Announcements
>Chat
>Private Messages
>... and so on...

>Which Content Management Portal is better for my idea in PHP+MySql?

I gave a few of the more popular ones a quick test (Joomla/Mambo,
e103, Drupal and G

log).

Most of them have modules that you can mix & match to get the features
you need. Some are better/easier than others to customise - from a
graphics or functionality point of view.

There's a website somewhere that compares the features of most of the
common ones - I'll see if I can dig it out.

I ended up going for Joomla for a few projects. As with any Open
Source application, it's in a constant state of flux and has a fair
few bugs that you maybe wouldn't tolerate in a commercial product.
However, it seems well supported - very much alive and going places -
and does a pretty good job. Like Firefox, it's as good as its
extensions/modules/components.

One thing I will say though - you *may* have to "get down and dirty"
occasionally and look over the PHP code, but you *most definitely*
will need to brush up on your CSS skills. Joomla in particular seems
to make heavy use of the "cascading" functionality of styles.

I'm still far from writing true, "modular" code - that I can re-use
efficiently from site to site, so it was a "quick fix" for a few sites
where the client needed a simple "back end".

For me, though, the real drawback to any CMS is the "straitjacket" it
forces you to use. Joomla, for instance, is very "blog" orientated and
you sometimes don't quite get the flexibility you want. For a
beginner, it's not *that* easy to add a few pages of your own [custom]
code - you have to get to grips with the whole CMS publishing logic.
You basically need to know how to write a component or module - plenty
of help around for that, so it's not impossible.

Take a look at:
http://www.mackellarcoffee.co.au

- to see how "un-bloglike" you can make a Joomla site. In this case, I
just used it so the client could easily update the site via the back
end. The budget wasn't huge, so not all that much time went into it
(you can be as rude as you like - I won't mind!).

Adam.

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