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what to use for a user rank based web application?

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:53 pm
by parachuter2b
Hi there,

I'm working on a web app that is for a fitness community.
The goal is to allow users to post their favorite work out tunes and other users to rank them. sort of like digg and other web 2.0 voting based sites, but of course not as complicated.
I did some research and seems like CMS wouldn't be a bad choice? (i.e. joomla or drupal)
I also read some articles on flex today...
but a lot of mixed review on all of them!

what would you suggest? would it be easier to go with a CMS or write it in php, mysql (or whatever else db) from scratch?

ps. I'd rather use a template that comes with one of these tools rather than spend time on design

Thanks for your time,

parachuter2b

Re: what to use for a user rank based web application?

Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:10 am
by ct_lee
I personally think that with anything you get the best results if you implement it from nothing, meaning code it from scratch but realistically people cannot afford to spend that much time on a project.

Coding from scratch would mean you could customise things to your needs rather than having all the unneeded bits that come with a CMS. If you do use the CMS however you will be able to get stuck into posting things straight away but the site will probably not be as perfect as you would like as it isnt custom coded.

Basically if you have time, start from nothing, if you dont have time go with the CMS and see how it goes from there.