content management system or not?
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content management system or not?
What do you think about using a content management system such as CMS Made Simple for a PHP web site that has significant back-end functionality for user-defined content? I'm thinking of a type of calendar of events, where many different users are submitting events to a relational database via html forms for dynamic display by date, location, interest, etc. However, it looks like the Form Builder in CMS Made Simple is designed for a rather limited use -- feedback forms without any connection to a separate database. So I'm not sure that defining the pages and forms in CMS Made Simple is helpful in any way. Seems like straight-up .php files might be better. I'm not sure even the conditional display part of this site would be improved at all by using a CMS. Haven't done any PHP before. When I've worked on similar applications in the past, it was always done using Java Servlets/JSP or ASP without a content management system. What do you think? Thanks.