Is ModX a good choice for a tag-centric user site?

I’ve wrestled with Drupal for months... it just doesn’t really have a very fluid way to deal with dynamic tagging and calls.

For instance... I need to be able to allow the user to create/manage tags, anytime they want, on their profile that do the following things:

* List the User in relative searches
* Contribute to a tag-cloud
* Return items (listings) in the site that match one or more of their user-tags on cron
* Send them notifications when things pertaining to one or more of their tags occur on the site
* Check against other types of tags in the system (item tags or other user tags)

I don’t have the money to outsource this project and I don’t know enough PHP to write this functionality by hand.

My gut was to learn Ruby on Rails for this project... but my coding abilities are limited (HTML > CSS > PHP... PHP being very very poor) and I don’t think I can get up to speed on Rails in less than a couple weeks. Is there any chance I might have an easier time of this in modX?

If not... any other suggestions?

Almost 60 views and no thoughts? I’m guessing the answer is ’no’ then...

Hi,

I haven’t yet had the need to built a ’proper’ blog in MODx, but I recently found these 2 resources for Revo which look like they could be very useful.

You might not need this, but I reckon it’s a good starting point:
http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/revolution/Creating+a+Blog+in+MODx+Revolution

And this seems to deal more specifically with tags:
http://splittingred.com/technology/2010/05/tagging-blog-posts-in-revolution.html

Whether this can be classed as ’tag-centric’ I don’t know, but you might find something that is of help.

Dan

Thanks Dan, I’ll check those links out!