khaman — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:38:53 +0000

Thanks guys for answer. Yes, maybe it is not usefull to avoid CMS at all especially that I'm still learning php. I will look through drupal, wordpress and see if its easy to customise. TYhe basic idea was to make a simple site and not the complete portal but with only some functionalities of a portal.
Anyway thought it might be any easy solution, but without learning more php it won't be anyway

JoseffB — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:36:02 +0000

If your into php programming and don't want to touch a CMS because of all the layering and such that makes programming new plug-ins hard then check out Geeklog. It has an universal plug-in SDK, good documentation and an easy theming structure.

Plug-ins already exist for it also which is cool. The new URTournament.org is now running Geeklog and it's pretty cool. Still need to theme it though.

Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:23:13 +0000

You can easily grab components for comments, guestbooks, file management, etc from projects like Drupal, Wordpress or whatever. Putting them together is another thing.

It's hard enough bridging two complete packages (like a forum and a CMS), let alone multiple components from different sources. You'll have to build the architecture that makes them work together, and consolidate the various calling protocols, data structures, security layers and whatnot... basically rolling your own CMS. Such big parts are not easily reusable.

I'd imagine porting your SQL data and templates into whatever schema and format is required for a new and complete CMS will take less blood, sweat and tears than retrofitting diverse and complicated components into the existing site. Especially if you're new to PHP.

So why do you want to avoid a CMS?