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

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