[BNM] CMS recommendations?

[Andy Baker]

I have a hunch the clock is ticking for some of these old-school large PHP
web apps. I don't know if my experience of Zen Cart/OSCommerce is
representative but the code was crufty as f*** and unpleasent to tweak.
Essentials like CSS based layouts and SEO friendly urls were hacked in as
afterthoughts. A brief look at other projects such as Joomla lead me to
suspect that things aren't that much better (as does Nick Taylor's comments
about Drupal)

Roll on some nice clean, loosely coupled Rails or Python CMS's.

On 9/14/06, Nick Taylor <nick at tangerineworks.com> wrote:
>
>
> Well, just to add a bit of dissent to the brew...
>
>
> I've found Drupal to be an utter utter utter nightmare and I will never
> have anything to do with it ever again.
>
> For me it's been an abject lesson on how not to write code - the code I
> write at the moment is specifically design to be as far away from Drupal
> as possible.
>
> It's impossible to find where anything's coming from. There are
> functions that call functions that call functions that call functions
> that call functions - and at some point, the function and variable names
> are generated on the fly - so you can't do a global search to find where
> anything is.
>
> So yea - if you stick to the beaten track then Drupal might be ok. If
> you want to do something rebellious... like change the page title...
> then you're going to spend a day and a half trying to find which bit
> does the title.
>
> It's a classic case of "ease of administration" at the expense of "ease
> understanding the code". Nightmare.
>
>
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