You're not really a PHP developer until you've written your own CMS from scratch. It's a right of passage to roll your own, realize what a bad idea it is, and move on to using a full on general CMS that will do 10x what you can do on you own in 1/10 the effort on your parts. My own bias is for Drupal, since that's the system I work on, but most will work well enough depending on your needs. (Drupal will work better, though! <g>) The bragging rights of doing it youself don't actually carry as much weight as you'd think; the bragging rights of knowing how to leverage a tier-one system that has major name recognition is even more valuable. The bragging rights of being a developer on that system is even more valuable. There's educational value to writing your own, but it will take longer and result in fewer features than using an existing system. Most major CMSes have tens of thousands of hours of work put into them; 60 hours won't even get you a really good blog. On Thursday 28 August 2008 4:17:03 am Auto-Deppe, C. Haensel wrote: > Hi all! > > And again, a slightly off topic subject for you all from yours truly :o) > > I have a "customer" (helicopter company) who is willing to give me some > free flights for a small website. > > Now, I have been talking to my sister in law who is a designer (note: > designer, not coder). She said I should be using Joomla or something of > that sort and change it to fit my needs. > > I, on the other hand, am more into using my own code, starting with the > first "Hello World" and ending up being a full fledged CMS with just the > functions the customer needs. I have a lot of code in my code database > already, so it would be a lot of copy and paste and a bit of coding. I > think the whole thing will take about 60 work hours. > > I am into hand coding, to be honest. Using Joomla or other CMS systems is > fine, but I want this to be a nice point on my CV if I ever need to get a > new job. And, most important to me, it _feels_ much better to have it done > from scratch all by yourself, doesn't it? > > So, I would love to hear your opinion on this. Sorry for being a bit off > topic here as this is not 100% coding related, but I _had_ to get some > feedback to backup my position ;o) > > Cheers! > > > Chris -- Larry Garfield larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
