On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:17, Aaron Ross wrote: > > > > > > >For community sites, use Slash - the engine behind slashdot > > >(http://www.slashcode.com) - there's even a book about it. > > > > You should also check out scoop (http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/), the engine > > that runs Kuro5hin.org. It's also written for modperl, and IMHO has some > > extra community features that makes it better than slash for more > > "democratic" sites where there are no "editors" like on /. who decide what > > stories get posted. Oh, and it does have diaries. ;-) > > Does anyone know of a more "portal" oriented engine? in addition to > discussions and articles, a calendar, object level access control, > polls, approval based content management. > > A friend has to put together a community portal site for the university > he works for, on biological terrorism, no less! So far, we have been > unable to find anything in perl that provides the functionality needed. > > The ArsDigita code seems pretty good, but it's seems to be somewhat > adrift and sloppy at this point. > > Zope provides lot of features, but seems to be a closed little world, > ie. it's own db and it's own templating language. > > Anybody know of something in mod_perl with this out of the box > functionality in addition to content management? > > -- aaron > > Zope has plugins to other db's, and there is lots of other apps which do what you want in php (like phpnuke), as for modperl, i don't think the people using modperl build onesizefitsall stuff as much as php people tend to do..
Maarten
