On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 06:56, Bill Traynor wrote: > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Ron Harwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:44 AM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [admin] CLUE web-site > > > > > >> the more I read about Zope, the more interesting it sounds. > >Here's a > >> blurb from > >> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/ZopeBook/IntroducingZope.stx: > > > >[snip] > > > >> This choice is kind of self serving as well as I will be > >undertaking a > >> Zope based project at work and will be learning it anyway. > >> > >> Thoughts > >> Bill Traynor > > > >If I remember correctly - Zope is an application framework... > >meaning that if you want CMS/Collaboration/etc. the tools to > >build them are all there - but you still need to either build, > >or find the applications, no? > > Yes, zope is an application framework as you describe. However, there is a > huge user community and any functionality that is provided by a slash-like > site has already been written by someone and is usually downloadable for > free. And if something isn't there, we can get Rice to code it up in Perl > ;). The benefit of Zope is in it's flexibility and extensibility. > > I'm going to do some experimenting with it over the next couple of weeks and > see how it goes. However, if everyone agrees that the need to update > linux.ca is needed more urgently, we should use a solution that's faster to > implement. > Personally, I wouldn't bother with Zope, too much overhead. PHP is much faster and can do everything that we would want. Combined with mysql or postgreSQL, php is one of the best web development environments out there. For speed, only JSP is it's equal.
I actually wrote a message board system, www.ewaddle.com. It needs some major work but it's a Canadian project. So I have a good idea of what is required to set something up with PHP. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
