Re: [school-discuss] Website admin for students

[garry saddington <garry@joydiv.fsnet.co.uk>]

On Monday 05 April 2004 5:52 am, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:37:22AM -0600, Alex Heizer wrote:
> > > > Garry - have you tried PHP Nuke?
>
> Oh no, don't even try that crap.  Inherently buggy and one of the
> most insecure web apps in my experience :(
>
> Sad to say and would be glad to see it the other way, but.
>
> > > My advice would be to seriously investigate PostNuke.  While that's my
>
> Better.
>
> > > advice today, I think the Zope/Plone combination has a huge
> > > amount of long-term potential.  There are a couple of efforts
> > > to build educational portals with Plone, and in a year or so
> > > my recommendation hopefully would be different.
> >
> > If you are considering other CMS options, you might want to
> > also consider TYPO3 (http://typo3.org).
>
> Definitely.  Especially it there's non-zero "advanced" part of
> folks who can grok initial learning and setting up (they're
> stating "read docs for a month, do things in hours").
>
> And I do know there are .de, .dk, .fr, ...

Zope is so good that after I discovered it I did'nt bother to try anything 
else. I am now building a complex database driven web application with it and 
it is straightforward once you get the hang of it.
regards
garry