I can strongly recommend Joomla - I have it working with Menalto's Gallery2, and just got a phpBB bridge working as well. Can I also recommend you use Joomla over Mambo? About a year ago the core developers (now at Joomla) fell out with the so called owners of Mambo, about ownership and future developments.... so they created Joomla. They're in the process of developing v1.5 which is going to have some really cool features, mainly for 3rd party developers, so although you may not experience the features with it's direct release, other components and modules are already being developed that will improve the CMS no end... Hope that helps Nunners -----Original Message----- From: Colin Guthrie [mailto:gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 14 August 2006 10:06 To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: New Large Scale Project. Wesley Acheson wrote: > Basically the different areas I would need are authentication, > galleries (for images), permission levels. Internal messaging (not > real time), forums (hopefully I can just plugin an existing one but > intregrated with my new so that registering users for the site > registers for the forum and vice versa, also I would like each new > gallery entry to create a new forum entry for that image). Comments, > ratings and such like. Sales (This would have to be a script written > elsewhere, I am in no way confident when it comes to dealing with > sensitve info like credit card details.) etc. etc. > > My other problem is even though I'm confident coding I find design > very difficult I've a good idea of how the website would work but only > in general terms. > > Out of the box mambo or drupal doesn't seem to do what I want really I use Joomla quite a bit (Mambo by an other name). I've used the bridge components and Menalto Gallery and it works pretty well. THere are various core hacks you can apply too to setup varying permission levels and other stuff. Simple Machine Forums also has a good bridge component (it's what the Joomla forums themselves use). So with a little fiddling you can probably make Joomla do what you need. If you are not confident dealing with CC payments and the like, then I strongly suggest you use a third party service for this. Col. -- 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
