Hendry wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone can share your favorite PHP open source CMS to work with and > what's the reason? I'm looking for something that easily extensible. > I've googled and found severals but I'm still confused, some from the > lists: > - Drupal > - Tomato CMS > - modx > - xoops > - Symphony > > Thanks > > # Hendry
most are good in different ways; many are carbon copies with different coding styles; pick any of them and work with it till you start fighting it, then review your choice. there's no way anybody can really help you pick, you know what you want to do and what you don't; if you just want to install something load a plugin and skin it then pick drupal or something like it "a cms". If you want to code custom things quicker, then pick a framework like zend, kohana, codeigniter and fuse different classes / modules to develop your apps quickly. just to make up a phrase cos I'm in that kind of mood.. "only a foolish workman carries one tool in his toolbox" - you need different tools for different jobs, just like we need more than php we need more than one framework/class/cms. also worth considering what you want to do, if you don't wanna roll out carbon copy sites with different templates every day of life then don't take on that kinda work & forget about picking a cms; or if you just want to work agency style with clients in and out the door as quick as possible with little maintenance use what everybody knows, drupal them all safe in the knowledge that anybody with drupal skills can do the ongoing maintenance and developers / designers with the needed skills are plentiful. ps: 1 - have a quick scan of the source code of each & see if it looks easy for you to work with and is coded in a similar style to your own code. 2 - look for the most modular, lightest and mature which fits the results of 1. regards! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
