Your framework / CMS of choice?

ppetrid · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 07-01-2011, 11:58 AM

I'm really curious what people use in this forum, so I thought of creating this thread. Of all web frameworks & content management systems which one you love the most and why?

My answer would be django: I love its database abstraction & form functionality, I'm familiar with mvc architecture (which helps), it embeds a nice authentication system and it's python! What do you prefer?

Dan Williamson · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2011, 12:50 PM

If I do work in Web and have a choice to use PHP then my framework choice is IrisMVC with a custom CMS.

dragoonslair · #3 (**permalink**) 07-01-2011, 02:22 PM

Hi all,

i work with PHP & MySQL - i often use Wordpress as CMS for his easy-to-use and easy-to-learn admin interface.

i've worked with Joomla and Drupal too, but they're too much "complex" for end users experience. I've followed a Django project, but i am not so good with phyton tech

i think that the final result of my work should be really easy for a non-PHPguru customer

Joomla vs. Wordpress?
well, without a good template editing wordpress isn't good enough for building a great website, joomla have a great modules interfaces but WYSIWYG is really bad!

Actually i'm working a lot with wordpress: i like its auto update interface and large plugin avaibility and i spent only 5-10 minutes to teach how it works

Manu

CodCom · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2011, 04:37 PM

What CMS I use depends on what I need, but I only use WordPress or Joomla. Both are versatile and easy to learn. With a bit of HTML knowledge you can get pretty far.

ppetrid · #5 (**permalink**) 07-04-2011, 05:35 AM

>i've worked with Joomla and Drupal too, but they're too much "complex" for end users experience.

Yes, I'm familiar with Joomla. It has a big learning curve for site administrators and this is one of the reasons I switched to django. Also most of the available 3rd-party Joomla modules produce awful xhtml / css code - not to mention that their PHP code is a mess

juhasan · #6 (**permalink**) 07-04-2011, 08:25 AM

I use WordPress to design regular websites and blogs. It's easy to customization, maintenance and search engine friendly.

diychuck · #7 (**permalink**) 07-06-2011, 12:06 AM

I'll be sure to check django out. I have tried wordpress and Joomla in the past, but I find them difficult to update and make changes to, whch means I have to rely on other people!

fooini · #8 (**permalink**) 07-09-2011, 10:03 AM

typically codeigniter, wordpress, and pligg

**HTMLBasicTutor** · #9 (**permalink**) 07-09-2011, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by fooini

typically codeigniter, wordpress, and pligg

Could you please explain why these are your framework / CMS of choice?

ppetrid · #10 (**permalink**) 07-13-2011, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by HTMLBasicTutor

Could you please explain why these are your framework / CMS of choice?

+1. I wonder what the advantages of pligg can be.. I can see it features a template language, it's development team claims that it scales but other than that I'm not sure! :S

JohnnyS · #11 (**permalink**) 07-14-2011, 05:57 AM

my choice of CMS is WordPress its easy to use and customize, it's not easy for the programmers but also for the client who will use the website. Especially the admin area.

for a framework, Symfony is a great framework because of the clean code structure, its a bit hard to use because there's not much support for it.

**HTMLBasicTutor** · #12 (**permalink**) 07-14-2011, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberSEO.net

WordPress is my CMS of choice.

Why is that?

yellowww · #13 (**permalink**) 07-15-2011, 03:18 AM

My own or ociassionaly Wordpress which is fantastic, very easy to set up and you can build your own themes very easily.

fooini · #14 (**permalink**) 07-16-2011, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by HTMLBasicTutor

Could you please explain why these are your framework / CMS of choice?

no problem, wordpress for its sheer flexibility. codeigniter for its juiciness and small size. and im pretty comfortable with pligg, its more of a developers cms, i would not recommend it for someone that does not do code. its a solid cms for larger sites that depend on user content.

ppetrid · #15 (**permalink**) 07-17-2011, 01:03 AM

has anyone been working with yii? A friend of mine just switched to yii and he is now trying to convince me quit django..

Wildcard · #16 (**permalink**) 07-19-2011, 04:54 PM

I've set up and maintained wordpress and joomla for people, and I don't really like either of them. Wordpress requires a lot of updates, and I'm paranoid about the security aspects. Joomlas is bit better, and does more stuff. But I haven't had a user yet who doesn't find the interface at least a little confusing.

Templating with PHP5 is awesome. I just use that, and seperating design from logic.

For Python, I just started playing with Bottle ( http://bottlepy.org/ ) and am really liking it so far.

liam1412 · #17 (**permalink**) 07-22-2011, 07:54 AM

As a coder I am not a fan of any CMS but my own. I hate the way that every bid you see on freelance sites etc will say "This can be done using joomla" etc, when 9 times out of 10 a CMS is over kill.

If you can code well it takes longer IMO to get joomla/drupal etc to do what you want than it would knocking together a quick cms from scratch which would be far more user friendly to your client.

In terms of complex projects a framework is a great idea and my preference is codeigniter. It's relatively easy to get started and provides everything on an "it's there if you want to use it basis" rather than forcing you to code in a particular way.

Sarah14 · #18 (**permalink**) 07-22-2011, 08:09 AM

WordPress is our CMS of choice because our clients believe it to be the most user-friendly.

TailoredVPS · #19 (**permalink**) 07-24-2011, 01:18 PM

I mainly use Wordpress because it is really easy to manage plus I know how to code in PHP + MySql.

wicasso · #20 (**permalink**) 07-31-2011, 05:11 AM

Drupal works best for me for many reasons :

1) It has an excellent, flexible theming and templating system. I can take my existing HTML/CSS design and port it easily to a Drupal theme with NO change. Instead of creating a theme from scratch or changing other themes, Drupal has many base/starter themes that allow designers to create, customize, adapt, port a theme without coding. My favorite base/starter theme is AdaptiveTheme, http://drupal.org/project/adaptivetheme

2) Drupal has a huge, friendly community actively developing more than 10,000 modules and 1,000 themes for all types of sites.

3) Flexibility: Create my own CONTENT TYPE and create my own fields for the content type. Flexible theming system. Flexible API for creating own functionalities and integrating with other applications.

4) Commitment and active support for open Web standards, W3C standard compliance, accessibility, usability, etc...

5) Multilanguage and internationalization: I develop site for clients who want international languages along with English. Multilingual site is easy in Drupal. Multilanguage is built-in.

These are just a few reasons why I like Drupal.