Hi all. I'm a front end guy who knows HTML,css,a little jquery and am learning PHP (slowly). I've mainly been creating sites in MODX Revo for the past couple if years. I personally love it, love the community and will always be a user and fan.
But I made the decision lately to expand my CMS pool and in addition to MODX have heard good things about PW. Recently a client proposed rolling out a site and I am evaluating PWs suitability as the underlying site. Here are some features.
Membership with potential for ten of thousands of members.
User Groups and sign up forms adding users to particular groups.
Vast amount of pages with ability to organise and search pages ( via backend)
Paid membership
What concerns me about PW is how the CMS will handle such a huge number of pages as it uses the resource tree concept. Some dabbling with Expression Engine made me appreciate the 'bucket' data model where an entry didn't have to be a page. I hope that makes sense. Information was stored in Channels, were very scalable and manageable too. Ironically, I never got to grips with EE fully and moved on to MODX. My usage of PW will not be a switch from MODX but I am keen not to learn another CMS with a potential resource tree shortcoming. Possibly someone gets what I am saying? Just how scalable is PW and do I need to learn PHP?