[imiaoswg] Re: Portal software
- From: Robin Carriere <rscarriere@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: imiaoswg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:58:53 -0400
I agree with Tim. For something like a content management / portal
software a database is a better choice. A few that have caught my eye
lately are Drupal and Tikiwiki. I like using PHP/MySQL so I'm a bit
biased, but the only concern I have with using plone is the fact that
zope, the underlying architecture of plone, isn't supported by most
mainstream hosting companies. (if where and how it is hosted is a
concern). I've tinkered a bit with plone and it was nice. I ended up
going back to php based apps because I had more experience playing with
php.
Tim, can you comment - I'm not familiar with the db backend used in
zope. It is an object oriented DB? How easy/hard is it to retrieve
data from the DB? Are there interfaces available to get a the data
easily (I'm thinking along the lines of interfaces to accomplish this -
ie. phpMyAdmin, Mysql GUI). I couldn't find anything when I was playing
with Plone. While I probably would rarely use direct access for
anything - I like looking at how tables, etc are designed to get a
better idea of how the system works.
Robin
Tim Cook wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 01:03, Peter Murray wrote:
>
>
>>>Bill Perry, one of our members, alerted me to the following application:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've found a GPL app you may find interesting. It's a
>>>>portal system called "Guppy" from France. (http://www.freeguppy.org).
>>>>Very easy to set up, does not require MySQL and has mulitple language
>>>>modules.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Has anyone any experience of using this, or any thoughts on it?
>>>
>>>
>
>Hi Peter,
>I haven't used it but I note that it stores all of it's content in text
>files. This can be a huge limitation in the ability to ever search for
>information or associate documents at a later date.
>
>The other thing I notice is that it can only accommodate TWO languages.
>You are likely to need many more than that.
>
>I suggest you look at Plone (http://www.plone.org). It is a complete
>content management system including it's own object database and a front
>end webserver. It is completely cross platform (all major OS's
>supported). It has a huge list of additional features. It is used by a
>large number of major websites.
>
>My 2 cents,
>
>
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