RE: [PHP] Enterprise grade CMS+Ecomm
Larry Garfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:36 PM said: On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:30, Chris W. Parker wrote: Drupal has its own ecommerce suite that is reasonably robust all on its own. Yeah I saw that module. I think today I am going to try to set them both up. Thanks for your input. Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Enterprise grade CMS+Ecomm
Hello, So we're getting ready to redo our website once again to integrate some modern changes and a shift in branding. I'm currently looking at all my options as far as software goes. The question I have to answer is Do I write everything by myself from scratch and spend 3-6 months doing it? Or do I spend that same amount of money on a prebuilt system and spend 1 month integrating our new branding? The answer doesn't even have to be specifically one way or the other. It could be a mixture of the two. Perhaps I use something like Drupal (which I have no experience with) for the CMS part and write my own ecommerce application. Or perhaps I write my own basic CMS and purchase an ecommerce application? I've seen X-Cart and at first glance it doesn't look terrible so far. At least the design templates look to be pretty flexible. I'm definitely not interested in osCommerce or derivatives thereof. Why? Because I've worked with osC in the past and I dislike it very much. As for a CMS, I just watched a video on Drupal 4.7 and it looks quite interesting. Opinions? I'm also currently looking at www.opensourcecms.com and have been to the Joomla, XOOPS, Xaraya, and Mambo websites also. Thanks, Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Enterprise grade CMS+Ecomm
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 09:30 -0700, Chris W. Parker wrote: As for a CMS, I just watched a video on Drupal 4.7 and it looks quite interesting. Opinions? How about having a look at http://avoir.uwc.ac.za/ ? Its Free, very easy to learn and has a very active user and developer community. Its built on a MVC design pattern, so its really easy to write adaptor classes that you can quickly and painlessly integrate OSCommerce or whatever else you may need in there. --Paul All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/uwc2006/content/mail_disclaimer/index.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Enterprise grade CMS+Ecomm
-Original Message- The question I have to answer is Do I write everything by myself from scratch and spend 3-6 months doing it? Or do I spend that same amount of money on a prebuilt system and spend 1 month integrating our new branding? The answer to this question depends heavily on your needs. What kind of functionality do you need to get out of your website? If you are looking for a website that is similar to others in function, than I would definitely suggest looking at an existing CMS package. Even if you will need some custom functionality, it may be worth the time and effort to create your own module for an existing system. But again, that depends on the complexity of the system you need. The answer doesn't even have to be specifically one way or the other. It could be a mixture of the two. Perhaps I use something like Drupal (which I have no experience with) for the CMS part and write my own ecommerce application. Or perhaps I write my own basic CMS and purchase an ecommerce application? I would suggest that you take a look at the different CMS options as well as the community released modules / plugins. You may well find a CMS that has a module that will meet your needs, or be close enough that you could take the code and customize it to what you are looking for. As for a CMS, I just watched a video on Drupal 4.7 and it looks quite interesting. Opinions? I'm currently migrating from a Mambo site to Drupal. My main reason for doing so is the multi-site functionality. We have a few different websites that we maintain for different business goals, but we want them all to authenticate against the same database due to the fact that some of our users will need to use all of the sites. Using drupal it is very simple to setup several sites on one codebase, and telling them to all authenticate against the same database table is very easy. The other nice thing is that you can setup drupal to share the sessions table as well, so logging into one site logs you into all of the sites at once. Having said that, Drupal is a little more difficult to understand than some of the other CMS systems. At least it was for me, but that probably reflects more on me than on Drupal. ;) For a single site setup I would probably stick with Joomla, but that's just a preference. The bottom line is that there are lots of great CMS options, and the best way to choose one is to know exactly what you want from a CMS and compare them with that in mind. Good luck, Brady -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Enterprise grade CMS+Ecomm
Brady Mitchell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thursday, July 20, 2006 12:25 PM said: The answer to this question depends heavily on your needs. What kind of functionality do you need to get out of your website? If you are looking for a website that is similar to others in function, than I would definitely suggest looking at an existing CMS package. [snip] The bottom line is that there are lots of great CMS options, and the best way to choose one is to know exactly what you want from a CMS and compare them with that in mind. Yeah I understand that it's a pretty open ended question, and thanks for the info about Drupal. We want to maintain 2 different sites as well and authenticating against the same table sounds nice. But as for recommendations, keeping in mind the difficulty in answering a question like mine, I am mostly just looking for things like what you've said: I use $cms because I like that it can do $feature. Thanks, Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Enterprise grade CMS+Ecomm
On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:30, Chris W. Parker wrote: The answer doesn't even have to be specifically one way or the other. It could be a mixture of the two. Perhaps I use something like Drupal (which I have no experience with) for the CMS part and write my own ecommerce application. Or perhaps I write my own basic CMS and purchase an ecommerce application? Drupal has its own ecommerce suite that is reasonably robust all on its own. Drupal's main advantage: Whatever you're trying to do, odds are you can already do it with some combination of existing modules. Drupal's main disadvantage: There's a metric fuckton of modules and just as many ways to combine them. The don't code, just configure option is not always easy to figure out because it's just so flexible. (Disclaimer: I am a Drupal developer, albeit a minor one.) -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 6817012 If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
