Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/13/07 21:08

white lightning wrote:
> I've been thinking lately about whether to use opensource CMS such as
> Joomla or to build something from scratch.
>
> I am good with PHP/ MySQL but only little bit familiar with Joomla.
>
> I want to know when to use CMS and when to code from scratch? How do I
> make such a decision? Need some expert advice.

Much depends on how soon you need things up and running, even if a CMS can't
do exactly what you want, you can in most cases write a module that will do
what you need to have done.

It's only if you need to do things that are really special and which you can't
do with a module in a already made CMS, then start to think of making
something from scratch.

Of course if there are things you need to test when it comes to your coding,
then you can start from scratch too, but usually it's enough to just make
something small for testing something new instead of writing a new CMS.


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//Aho

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