"Adam" <an**@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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"Joe" <am********@tin.it> wrote in message
news:11**********************@p10g2000cwp.google groups.com... Thankyou so much for replying. More than a shopping cart I need
something along the lines of product/invoice administrating system with
charts & reports. So I was really wondering if theres is some Content
Managment System out there which I can add a php component(for CRUD
operations, etc..) or plugin to.
Joe
Take a look at Joomla - it's fairly easy to write/add components for
it.
Adam.
I'll second a vote for Joomla. I'm just finishing up writing a "component"
(a particular style of plugin) for Joomla, and it's fairly easy to do.
It's certainly easier to start with an established CMS and write some
plugins, than to roll the whole thing from scratch. And since it's open
source, you can always find a plugin that's sort of what you want, and
modify it to suit you, so you don't have to write entirely from scratch.
The problem I see with CMS's is that today they are a moving target. There
is lots of development, so new versions come out regularly. One particular
CMS gets ahead for a while, then another one zooms past it--it's not an easy
environment. The 3rd party stuff drives you nuts, because it's often tied
to a very specific version of the CMS, which makes it hard to assemble
exactly the set of features you want, due to version conflicts.
The quality of the PHP code isn't high (in my far from humble opinion), and
some of the 3rd party stuff for Joomla is downright poor, but then again, I
suspect the quality of code inside proprietary CMS's isn't great either.
The most useful things about open source CMS's are that (1) you can see
what's going on, and change it as you see fit, and (2) there's a community
of people to help you find stuff.
-Dana
