I totally agree. At my company I am lucky to have a lot of creative freedom with my project. When I took over, they already had a custom CMS built on ColdFusion which is buggy as hell, and some sites are just plain HTML docs that I have to manually update.
At first, I started down the Drupal route, but quickly encountered issues with modules that I required not being finished, or coded and documented enough to fix. I was relying upon other people to finish their work. On the other hand, with CakePHP it is going to take me longer to create our CMS (plus the wasted time on Drupal) however, I can taylor it to our needs and requirements, as and when needed. Plus I know the code like the back of my hand now so I know where to look when there is a bug. The good thing is its also similar in some ways to the current CMS so there is no need to fully retrain other staff in its use, and it can be used consistantly over all the sites I manage (currently 7) so I can apply bug fixes and new features easily. Tane On 4/2/07, mparic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It shouldn't be about "bloat" vs. "lean"; it's about your business > model and what value are you delivering to your clients. If you are > providing stand-alone applications like a CMS or bulletin board, then > use Drupal or phpBB; you are not delivering any additional value by > making a custom application with Cake but are charging much more. On > the other hand, you can develop a program that includes just the CMS > functionality they need but also provides other automated tools (auto > email those documents to an online customer managment system) that > could not be provided with an off-the-shelf solution. That way your > client has fewer programs to learn (and you have to train/support) and > gets a solution that's tailored to them, providing real value and > justifying the larger cost of a custom solution. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
