I need Advice - PHP with CMS? DotNetNuke?

Hi,

I want to redo my site, http://www.WorldwideInfoSource.com, as well as some other domains that I own.

I was considering using .net with DotNetNuke, but recently I have noticed that PHP is very popular and there is a lot of stuff out there for it. I would want to use some kind of content management though.

Can anyone tell me what would be better, .net or PHP?

Also, are there any good free CMS's for PHP?

Will PHP run on a MS shared server?

Thanks!

 

Joomla! is a good free PHP CMS. I prefer DotNetNuke though myself simply because it is built on the .NET framework.

You should know I am a web develpoer. I code both in .NET as well as PHP and I can tell you first hand that .NET is the superior technology - by far. But, it's really about preference. There is really nothing you can't do with either, it's just a matter of efficiency and preference. In .NET you can do things with one line of code, that would take 50 lines in PHP, simply becuase the controls are already built.

If you are going to use a CMS though, chances are you won't be doing much coding. DNN has a vast support network with hundreds of modules available. The really good DNN modules are over at snowcovered.com . Joomla! has quite a few modules availabe as well, but I don't think that CMS is evolved as much as DNN.

I'd say, think about what you want your site to do, then go see if there are modules out there for each CMS that will do what you want. Then pick the CMS that you can implement those modules on.

Another good .NET based CMS is Community Server over at communityserver.org

 

Thanks for the good info - additional thoughts anyone?