How many of you use pre-built frameworks?

Freakish_05 · 16 Jul 2007 at 22:02

Just a general question.

Over the last 3 years I've laboriously created mini-cms's for each of my database driven projects.

I've just stumbled across Joomla which seems to be taking the world by storm.

How many people use systems like this as the basis for their sites. Has anyone made their own one? Most importantly, do they work well?

Ok thats multiple questions. But any enlightenment greately recieved

Cheers,
Freakish_05

Freakish_05 · 1 Aug 2007 at 16:44

Righty-ho!

I've been trialing drupal over the last few days and I've become a little attached to it and I think it would be good to use as a development tool.

Therefore, I present the following to you web gurus... \"Is Drupal a good tool to use as a web development platform in a commercial environment?\" (escaped for the PHP guys

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Basically I'm trying to get into the web scene and have exposed myself to a lot of PHP over the last couple of months. However, I've found that a lot of the things that I've been doing, user authentication/management being a prime example, Drupal seems to do really well for me. The alternative is to create my own, scaled-down version of Drupal (or similar) to apply to my projects.

Opinions?
Freakish_05