Modx as a development platform for multisites

Hello,

I am considering modx as a development platform for my sites.

I would like to know from you guys if you think modx is the right choice for me given the following:

+ I would like to have a platform installed on my server that pushes the tags or dynamic content to the clients web pages stored on his server. The content is also stored on his server in his folders. The db data should be on my server with the modx installation.

+ The idea is to use modx to manage the content with one installation for several client web sites. The sites can be either html or flash (in which case I push an xml file to the server).

+ I also want to be able to quickly make a backend for the client to manage his content (what he does is he come to my site and logins in, whereby he finds himself in his backend to deal with his content).

I’m looking at a few options including silverstripe and typo3. The reason I want this setup is because I am constantly building the same apps over and over, newsletter, news manager, guest book, image gallery, etc. I’m hoping to centralize the development and only push the tags used for the dynamic content to the client sites.

Thanks and looking forward to come comments.

Jeff

If you’re building the same type of site repeatedly, why not just do a database dump of your baseline setup and build from that.

Sounds like you’re asking for a distributed CMS platform with multiple manager instances running on multiple servers. Currently, I don’t think there’s any you mentioned that can do that.

Revolution will allow you to provision and transport packages from one install to another, so I think you’ll be able to accomplish what you wish with that. I could be very wrong of course.

Revolution is currently being heavily and frequently updated and is in its third public alpha release. I suspect another alpha or two will hit before beta. Packaging is getting the brunt of the attention right now, and we really need more testers. Sounds like you could help us out on that front. Care to join the party?