NYCPHP Meetup

[Stephen Britton]

Take a look at CiviCRM. www.civicrm.org

It is great for handling memberships and donations.

There are versions for Drupal, Joomla and a recently released version of
WordPress. The WP plugin is still under development and does not yet have
all the features as the Joomla and Drupal versions. I have never used Civi
for ecommerce, but it could be used for it.



On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Federico Ulfo <rainelemental at gmail.com>wrote:

> Howdy Matt -- for your project Wordpress is the best solution, because
> easy to hack and fast to develop. Is probably not the most elegant code out
> there, but is the best to have the job done! Also in WP other developers
> can join the project later, and immediately understand it and hack it.
>
> Avoid custom unless you have time and want to challenge yourself and learn
> something new, and even in that case the best solution is to use a
> framework, because it doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel, when lot of
> functionality are already made and tested.
>
> Keep me updated on the progress of your project,
> Federico
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Matt Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote:
>
>> I've been doing some volunteer work for a local non-profit and they have
>> been looking into re-doing their member management system.
>>
>> I decided not to build something custom because their needs are simple.
>> Originally, I thought about going with something like SugarCRM and using
>> that to store their members.  But eventually, they'd like shopping cart
>> integration so they can have members purchase things and have them tied to
>> their account.
>>
>> My next thought was to go Wordpress with woocommerce.  Members can be
>> tracked as wordpress users and their role indicates their member level (I
>> can create custom roles).  Woocommerce would faciliate the shopping cart
>> and a simple wordpress plugin or two could handle the meta data that needs
>> to be stored with each user.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions on other PHP-based alternatives?
>>
>> Thanks!
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