Posted by Brian A Anderson on 05/14/05 00:45

Think he means a CMS || Forumpackage || Portal package?

www.opensourcecms.com

-brian

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From: "Jason Barnett" <jason.barnett@telesuite.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Hello, I'm new...


> john@johnallsopp.co.uk 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. ;)
>
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