Large professional website, many features...what's the best CMS

Trying to figure out the best CMS for the job...large one. I usually use Modx CMS but this job looks like it's too big for the limits of MODx

Here's the basics available in most CMS: Polls/surveys, email forms, blog, newsletter, multilingual, members access, forums, etc

But I have a client that's also after:
1) Facebook style personal home pages (possible) but also including....
2) Ebay type auction system with buy now features
3) Integration of the above into wap mobile phone website that allows payments through phones (Paypal sounds good, not much of a problem there)
4) Internal messaging system
5) wiki for online document collaboration

Wondering if anyone has started on/knows about any of the above features already integrated into a solid CMS such as Joomla/Drupal/etc.

Have a nice day,
Derek

 

I don't know what big is your project site, better read this good article what the developers said about open resource cms, you can read the pros and cons of already made cms for huge size

 

You will need some amount of custom made extensions and therefore I vote for Drupal. This CMS comes with a very well constructed and documented API that is a perfect framework for creating powerful applications.

I general you can combine ready-made modules with custom ones. But though the new Drupal 6 has already been released you will have to go with Drupal 5 because not all modules that you need have already been upgraded.

 

you can use joomla ..all requirement will fullfill

 

I think wordpress is going in that direction, use wordpress blog, bbpress.

 

drupal + hire a developer

 

Definitely one of the best informative threads I read off-the-late. Thanks for the link.

 

It's the most important things for the developers to know the weakness, pros and cons of open source CMS for huge site, before they choose what is the right CMS to build the site.

 

I also want to know the same thing.
I want to make a website(static) having 3 or 4 sub-websites in it related to the same topic.
I can make it by CSS templates but the problem is its quite tough to modify it later and have to edit each and every page.
It should be easy to modify add and delete pages.



Thanks,
Bhanu

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joomla will do it, but you better have some time to get familiar with their set-up. A lot of the display code is embeded into the functions.

 

have fun running a large site on Joomla. Make sure you have unlimited server funds.

 

I'd suggest Drupal + hire a (good) developer as markn26 posted earlier.
But you will face the problem which can easily come up with nearly every feature-rich CMS. It's performance. You will need a really good developer who will make the necessary tweaks. Fortunately there are many options for Drupal (different levels of caching) and probably you will have to use some server-side techniques like an opcode cacher (eaccelerator, apc, or something similar) and a well organized structure for the server(s) setup.

This is definitely no shared hosting style

 

good call. it's a mammoth load time when there is no traffic, let alone if you had even 10 000 at once

 

Great stuff, thanks for all the replies and the link to the article....nice read

Yep the general consensus so far seems to be Drupal because of the solid architecture. I'm just not sure if it's worth going through the whole hassle of digging into Drupal and coding some/lots of the features separate.... there's going to be lots of custom modules. Honestly this project sounds like one big headache...

My client knows this will be a very large job taking around 4-6 months for professional grade quality and testing... so would like to contribute and bring on an extra guy or two to help sort out the wrinkles on some features.

Do you know of any advantages/disadvantages of either Drupal/Joomla community? Heard Drupal is in transition and busy integrating everything into 6.0.... is support hard to come by?

Have a good one,
Derek