On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 18:40 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: > I'm looking for a Content Management System written in PHP, Joomla has been > recommended. However I'm a little > disappointed to find that it is tied to MYSQL and doesn't use a generic dbms > interface such as Adodb. The application > that I have in mind will probably make use of the postgresql gis extensions. > Does anyone have any opinions on Joomla, > whether it can be bent onto Postgres or recommendations for an alternative.
drupal can do postgres out of the box. > The application that I'm developing contains most of your common web site > functions, from moderately static type > information pages, to more dynamic content, along with user accounts that > mostly just granting access to restricted > areas of the site and probably the ability for each user to edit their own > own details. There will also be a mapping > component (more than likely using google maps), and the need to store some > polygonal and other GIS based data (hence the > requirement for posgresql GIS). i'd recommend drupal if you are going to be writing some custom code on top of the cms. it has the basic features you require, and is easy to cleanly build extra functionality via custom modules. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
