Hi, I did start development of a CMS with Zend Framework as soon as it first came out as an early alpha in March/April 2006. Due to lack of time and some other more pressing projects, the development stopped around March this year. But if you are interested the frontend can be seen at http://www.adminguide.de. The backend has no public access (yet).
The reason why I decided to start to develop _yet_another_ CMS were: - most of the free CMSes out there lacked some features I thought I really needed - I wanted a CMS with a modern architecture, i.e. fully object oriented, pure PHP 5, open standards (templating with XSLT, all content in XML) - I tried to not reinvent the wheel where possible, although I think I was a bit early with ZF back then. The integration of ZF with source matrix will be hard I think, because source matrix does _not_ support PHP 5 I believe... But I know that ZF is a great base for a CMS. It brings along many functions that you can use right away. Is it generally a good idea to develop yet another CMS? If you like developing and have some time on your hands, yes. If you want to get started with some portal/website/blog - no. There a many good CMSes out there. Best regards, Georg > -----Original Message----- > From: Waigani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:26 AM > To: fw-general@lists.zend.com > Subject: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis > > > Hi, > > I'm the central developer for a univeristy division. For the > past three months I've been developing a CMS with Zend > Framework. It has gone very well and has had good feed back. > There are many departments that want to come on board as well > as campuses in other cities. It answers a lot of the > interoperability problems with languages, databases etc > within the university. I did a seminar on it today and now > have a core group of developers who are interested in pushing > it further. > > Problem is: a college just showed me mysource Matrix, which > is the competition. Have I just wasted the past three months? > It already does everything I'm developing, and if it does > not, it can be extended / developed. It already has huge buy > in from governments and education departments. > > - Why would anyone develop a CMS in Zend Framework? > - What advantages does Zend Framework have over Mysource > Matrix for producing RIAs? > - Are there any other Zend Framework developers that would be > interested in collaborating to create a professional open > source Zend Framework CMS? > (Built on the Zend Classes it could grow very quickly, and we > are off to a good start). > - Or should I accept defeat, and if so can the framework > integrate with mysource matrix? > > Thanks, > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Zend-CMS-Crisis-tf4433800s16154.html#a12649364 > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
