NYCPHP Meetup

[Kristina Anderson]

> 
> ummm, from my experience, in the end it is REALLY easy to just write 
your
> own CMS. You can trash 98% of what the bloated CMS packages out there 
give
> your. You just don't need it. It's so overkill.
> 
> 
> 

The ease of doing it from scratch varies depending on the complexity of 
both the site's front end, and the internal editorial/content approval 
processes that need to be provided, and of course as usual you have IT 
managers who are convinced that "doing it with frameworks" will save 
tons of time and money.

I've also had the experience of debugging and stabilizing some 
extremely poorly designed written-from-scratch PHP CMSes which lacked 
basic stuff like proper edit-mode handling and whose UIs were almost 
impossible for the end-users to understand...

So while rolling your own CMS is certainly a viable option, these 
frameworks offer a lot of advantages even if they are somewhat bloated 
with idiotic features.  I'm also in a position where this architecture 
was "decided upon" by persons with no actual experience doing things 
this way...which is where the proof-of-concept comes in.  We may do a 
180 if required.

Kristina