> > ummm, from my experience, in the end it is REALLY easy to just write your > own CMS. You can trash 98% of what the bloated CMS packages out there give > your. You just don't need it. It's so overkill. > > >
The ease of doing it from scratch varies depending on the complexity of both the site's front end, and the internal editorial/content approval processes that need to be provided, and of course as usual you have IT managers who are convinced that "doing it with frameworks" will save tons of time and money. I've also had the experience of debugging and stabilizing some extremely poorly designed written-from-scratch PHP CMSes which lacked basic stuff like proper edit-mode handling and whose UIs were almost impossible for the end-users to understand... So while rolling your own CMS is certainly a viable option, these frameworks offer a lot of advantages even if they are somewhat bloated with idiotic features. I'm also in a position where this architecture was "decided upon" by persons with no actual experience doing things this way...which is where the proof-of-concept comes in. We may do a 180 if required. Kristina _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
