Think he means a CMS || Forumpackage || Portal package? www.opensourcecms.com -brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Barnett" <jason.barnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:20 PM Subject: Re: Hello, I'm new... > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>>I would like to create a 'community' website and was wondering if > >>>there > >>>was a framework available to get me started? > > > > > > Well now I don't even know what a framework is. I was expecting > > someone to say "Oh, you should use model view controller" or > > something. > > > > All the answers seem to be applications. > > > > Are applications frameworks? > > > > J > > I would call MVC a design pattern... but then again I never took a CS > class in college so my knowledge of the lingo might be lacking. > > In any case based on the responses others have given to the OP > (including your own responses) there are really multiple questions that > you need to address: > > - what content / features do you want? > - what kind of user interface do you want? > - do you want a solution that is fully integrated? > - If so, then also consider the licensing options for each solution. > - If you don't want the full integration then you get to other questions > like: > - what design pattern fits my overall application? (likely MVC) > - what pre-existing code does the best job for each part of my site? > - what amount of flexibility do I want to build into my application? > - what can I do to make this code as easy as possible to understand > in the future, because I or someone else will have to debug it later? > > > I'm missing a lot of questions out of my list, but it gets you started. > Really it comes down to having a good mental picture of what it is you > want the site to do and how it will work / look / feel. Then you get > all of that down on paper and start finding code / packages / tutorials > to fill in the blanks. > > Based on the somewhat vague OP, you have somewhat vague (but somewhat > useful) answers. ;) > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
