It seems to me that WordPress would be good for the "simple and lightweight" part of their website. It would allow them to easily create, delete, and update pages for the site. Plus, if they have press releases or other types of newsy content, WordPress is a second to none for blogging. But you could say much the same for any CMS, really.
The real trick here, it seems, is what to do with this database they have. In order to "manage" that, you really do need to create some kind of specialized application. Drupal, and some of the other CMS's, have tools for creating those kinds of applications. But, depending on what this database actually consists of, in some respects, it can be easier just to build something from scratch. And if the consultant is going to do that for this organization using CodeIgniter (or any other programming framework), then that certainly makes sense. --Dave ----------------- David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:54 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with codeIgniter? Thanks, Dave and Mark -- this is exactly what I needed to hear. The "folks" are one of those extremely poor non-profits with almost no staff and zero technical skills. A consulting company is pushing them in this direction saying that Drupal is buggy and WordPress is ... well, I don't know. Dang! I hate being in the middle of this. I still think they'd be better off going with one of the "known" CMS packages. kc Quoting "Walker, David" <dwal...@calstate.edu>: > Are your 'folks' looking for a content management system, Karen? > > As Mark just mentioned, CodeIgniter is a web application development > framework -- that is, a set of reusable programming code that makes it > easier for programmers to build applications for the web. The key > terms there being "programmers" and "build." > > That is a very different kind of thing from Drupal or WordPress, > which are systems (that have already been built) to manage content for > a website. You don't have to be a programmer to use either of those. > > --Dave > ----------------- > David Walker > Library Web Services Manager > California State University > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf > Of Mark Jordan > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:08 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with codeIgniter? > > Karen, > > I used CI for a project last summer, and thought it was easy to learn > if you had done some PHP programming before and were familiar with MVC > architecture, well documented, and had a fairly rich feature set. > However, my impression is that it had a very small plugin/module > ecosystem compared to Drupal or Wordpress. Before recommending it, you > should review the categories under 'Contributions' at > http://codeigniter.com/wiki to see if you can identify any glaring > holes. But, overall, I'd say it's a pretty good PHP MVC framework (not > that I've compared a lot of them). > > Mark > > Mark Jordan > Head of Library Systems > W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British > Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada > Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 / Skype: mark.jordan50 > mjor...@sfu.ca > > ----- Original Message ----- >> I'm helping some folks find a new platform for their web site, and >> someone has suggested codeIgniter as being simpler than Drupal or >> Wordpress. Anyone here have anything to say about it, good or bad? >> The site is small and light weight but it does have a database that >> needs to be managed. >> >> Thanks, >> kc >> >> -- >> Karen Coyle >> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net >> ph: 1-510-540-7596 >> m: 1-510-435-8234 >> skype: kcoylenet > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
