I couldn't agree more. Plone/Zope is a beast.<br><br>If you're looking for something PHP based, I can't recommend Symphony enough: <a href="http://symphony-cms.com">http://symphony-cms.com</a>. <br><br>Nothing else in the PHP world matches it in terms of flexibility.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Cliff Wells <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cliff@develix.com">cliff@develix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 19:39 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:<br>
> >> - php-based<br>
><br>
> Because right now i know a little PHP, so if a PHP-based CMS happens<br>
> to crash or if there's something i might want to change, i'll know<br>
> what i'm looking at when i open the hood.<br>
><br>
> > For this and other reasons, we usually prefer Plone (Python-based,<br>
> > <a href="http://www.plone.org" target="_blank">www.plone.org</a>).<br>
><br>
> Which would mean i'd have (or want) to learn Python. It's on my list,<br>
> but not checked yet. Plus, this is obviously my opinion, i feel<br>
> scripting languages make much more sense than programming languages as<br>
> far as web-content goes. I like how PHP is embeded in HTML and<br>
> vice-versa, makes sense to me.<br>
><br>
> I've barely explored Python, though, but i'll check out Plone.<br>
<br>
</div>Plone runs on Zope, which is pretty much the opposite of "lightweight".<br>
It's huge and slow (although quite powerful if you want to dedicate a<br>
goodly portion of your life to learning it).<br>
You won't be able to handle any significant amount of traffic without a<br>
dedicated server (better yet, two dedicated servers, one server running<br>
Squid as a caching proxy in front of a Zope cluster on the other<br>
server).<br>
<br>
If you want lightweight and easy, I'd stick with a PHP blog or CMS<br>
(although you'll want to be *very* wary of security flaws) *or* if you<br>
are willing to learn Python (pretty easy), I'd consider using a lighter<br>
Python framework such as Pylons or Turbogears.<br>
<br>
Cliff<br>
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