Hi everyone,
I am planning on writing a small community portal solution for a small user group. Apart from a few standard functions (extendable user profiles, avatars, chatroom, discussion forum, wiki, role-based user management, internationalization, security, authentication, fully skinnable UI so that all modules look alike after editing a central design template...) I also want to add one custom specific module providing a custom specific function.
So we are talking about a normal web portal solution with lots of standard functionality and little custom functions.
So my idea was this:
1. Find a suitable, existing web portal / web framework / CMS
2. Install all standard modules I need
3. Create a central design template
4. Write my custom module
5. Be happy with a finished portal with a minimum of custom code writing (= fast).
6. Extend it whereever I need to
Here’s my question:
What should I use? Zope/Plone or some PHP-portal/CMS/framework or something else?
Even though I am a Java developer, I know doing the above thing J2EE-style would take too long.
I don’t know PHP nor Python but I assume this project is worth learning a new language.
But which one? What do you suggest? Why?
If you suggest PHP: which framework / portal / CMS is suitable for my project?
Of course you will say: use MODx. But why? What makes it my #1 choice for this project? Or is it? What alternatives should I consider?
Thanks
scrut
