PHP Based CMS and Modules

[technobard]

This is only partly a PHP question. Does anyone have any experience creating custom modules for any of the PHP based content management systems? I'm looking at building a departmental intranet site. Rather than starting from scratch, I'm thinking that a CMS with a custom module would satisfy all of my requirements and potentially be faster to get up and running.

One of the things that I've noticed so far is that while a number of open source CMSes support module development, the quality, quantity, and availability of documentation varies.

I would be interested in comments on ease of coding, tie-ins to other modules like role-based security for example, etc.

-technobard

[princess275]

We build customised cms modules for each web site we do. As you can imagine, the modues by their nature are easy to integrate and customise


sonia

[technobard]

Thanks for the thought, Sonia. Since posting this I have made the decision to use Drupal for the site. It's working out well. I've found that while I ultimately want a custom reporting module, I can do without it for the initial pass.

[teknomage1]

Lambda the Ultimate's website is run on drupal, so it must be fairly good to meet those guys' standards.

[technobard]

I just finished a basic, but functional reporting function that meets most of my custom needs. I'm liking Drupal a lot. Of course the eyes do wander from time to time. I just came across an interesting couple of articles on the CakePHP framework. They admit to being a Ruby on Rails ripoff implemented in PHP. Since I've never used Ruby on Rails, it's all new to me. I might be able to use it for some simple admin functionality that I need.

[Belisarius]

I've torn apart Etomite pretty much down to it's core and built it back up again. Only major drawback is the lack of real "users" - I grafted it in by using Apache's mechanism for it. But it's a great CMS if all you want is simple content management.