is processwire for me?

[Djemmers]

 

Hi,

I am looking for a new cms to devellop the new version of my site.

I have used joomla and modx but it was not really for me.

maybe processwire is more for me?

Can I do the following with this CMS?

• Use data in an external database (same server or other then site) to populate data on pages. (lists and detail pages)

• Add, delete, adapt entries in that database (through forms on frontend of the site)

• use my php and sql “knowledge” to adapt/create the above. (create custom php forms and php pages)

• create a multinlangual site (easy to add a language/tanslate file to be able to add languages)

• (optional: give users the option to use facebook/google or site registration)

 

This for an event database website where:

• there is a hierarchical category system

• users can create an account/change their password

• logged in users can add/update/delete and search events.

• visitors (also not logged in) can add,search events.

• normal users can only acces front end even when logged in

• admin users can acces front and back end

tnx for any replies

[Martijn Geerts]

Yes, you could do all the above.

I don't know what you're after with those external databases,  but in most cases I think it's not convenient to have separate models to work with. Keep in mind that working with hundreds of thousands of pages (data containers) in ProcessWire is no problem. I haven't seen real performance issues for sites with more than a million pages.

On the other hand, ProcessWire is just executing PHP so if you wish to use external databases you go can go for it.