On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Ajai Khattri <a...@bitblit.net> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Damion Hankejh wrote: > >> The need for customization >> outstripped the usefulness and time savings of its base functionality. After >> ~2 months of working with it and some top-shelf Drupal consultants, we >> scrapped everything in Drupal and returned to our custom PHP/MySQL/Smarty >> code base -- I quickly grew tired of hearing, "Drupal does things this way, >> so we have to rewrite this module." In hindsight, the time spent >> customizing Drupal to meet our requirements would have been better used to >> roll our own features. > > This mirrors my own experience using content systems to build web sites, > and why I moved on to frameworks. At some point there are just too > many integration points where it becomes more costly to modify and > maintain than building with a solid framework. Drupal is not really a > framework and wasn't designed to be, but ome people have molded > (twisted?) it to do more.
I was in a similar situation at MTV - and opted to go with the Joomla framework (and NOT the CMS) for this exact reason. A CMS has to be a one-size-fits-all proposition in order to be useful to a wide audience, and that makes bloat and inflexibility an unfortunate passenger. I used the Joomla framework much in a way one would use CodeIgniter, Zend or Kohana - I built exactly what was needed, and nothing more. No timezone support, no dynamic navigation, no multibyte characters, etc. That is the only way you can make scalable websites, and I think that is the main reason the stack/scaffold frameworks like RoR, Symfony and Cake get such a bad rap for scale. Until Drupal truly makes a framework under their CMS, they will have the same problems - something I discussed with some core contributors several years ago. I hope that is the route they take, as that provides many additional benefits as well. -- Mitch _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
