I suppose I am opposed to 'custom systems' with PHP. I feel that you shouldn't have to learn "new-stuff" that is specific to a certain system if it is so extensive. I know, I'm lazy, but I've been trying to learn PHP (as well as needing to learn JavaScript, SQL, and CSS 2.0 lately) and not stuff that will only work in a closed system.
That said; Drupal is VERY powerful, and VERY convenient given the multi-lingual aspects you (Rob) mentioned. From my angle, achieving what wanted through Drupal was proving to be almost impossible, when I had a good idea of how to accomplish it on my own, and figuring out how to integrate Drupal with my own custom scripts was proving to be a headache for me, so I ditched Drupal. Again, Drupal is amazing. I guess what I was trying to say was "it depends". Drupal is great for non-programmers who want to do very simple things, or for professional PHP programmers who want to do pretty much anything. Cheers :) Allen On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Robert Cummings <rob...@interjinn.com>wrote: > Allen McCabe wrote: > >> I've not had much experience with CMS's, however Drupal seems pretty >> featured, with the steep-learning curve; it's not very user friendly. >> > > Not to disregard your own experience, but I've found Drupal surprisingly > easy to get running with. In fact it's pretty much my first choice when > installing a CMS for a client and I demsontrate how simple it is for them to > add content. This is especially true in Canada where many websites are > multilingual and Drupal offers one of the best interfaces for providing > multilingual content. Additionally, the ability to create custom content > types while possibly difficult for clients to grasp, is really simple for > them to use if I do the legwork of creating the content types and associated > views. > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > http://www.interjinn.com > Application and Templating Framework for PHP >
