Re: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-13 Thread Waigani
Hi Nick, Thanks for the post. I think I'm just freaking out. That is some really good advice you've given esp about how many people will know ZF in three years time as apposed to mysource. I will gather all the info from these posts and way up integrating a ZF friendly cms or continuing the custo

Re: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-13 Thread Waigani
Hi Karol, Of course I reviewed other CMSs but they didn't fit the bill for xyz reasons. Mysource though is one I didn't review and seems very comprehensive. I did my own because the Zend Framework base seemed to quickly and easily give me everything that was lacking in the other CMSs. Karol Gre

RE: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-13 Thread Simon R Jones
Ask yourself do you have any specific requirements you need to solve at your university that makes it easier to develop your own code. Having your own system can make a lot life easier when customising specific features, though I'd advise you keep the core features as simple as possible to make lif

Re: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-13 Thread Karol Grecki
So, you didn't know there are other CMS on the market before you began? That's quite disturbing. Anyway, you can always try building a better one. Looks like MySource Matrix doesn't even work on PHP5. You might want to invent a better wheel, just for fun of it, maybe you're bored. Or you want to

Re: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-13 Thread Nick Lo
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 th

Re: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-12 Thread Waigani
We looked at a few CMS's, Mambo and the like. And we wanted something with clean code, flexible etc etc. Indeed the Framework is an ideal basis to build a CMS. And we have a fully functioning one which is scaleable etc etc. Its just the community that you don't get when you do it yourself. Do you

RE: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-12 Thread Georg von der Howen
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

Re: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-12 Thread Rob Allen
Waigani wrote: > 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

AW: [fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-12 Thread Leo Büttiker
richt- Von: Waigani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. September 2007 08:26 An: fw-general@lists.zend.com Betreff: [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 Zen

[fw-general] Zend CMS Crisis

2007-09-12 Thread Waigani
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