What
This post is to introduce a periodically survey of websites/applications powered by Drupal, the only CMS in the PHP world that actually deserves to be classified as a CMF.
From now on I will post a number of articles with the only goal to say «You see? another big one built with Drupal». Anyway, for the time being, I don’t feel to follow a regular schedule, so just except some “Drupal Powered Digest” posts every now and then.
Why
I’m recently moved abroad to work for the largest PHP company in Europe, Ibuildings, (London branch). As per consequence of this, I’ve started to have relantionship with a largely wider range of PHP professionals, and therefore I have the daily opportunity to compare different way of thinking about the PHP development.
Moving in such a large environment of PHP professionals, I could realize we share a number of things, but also we differ in some other things.
Both (me and the other PHP guys) believe in frameworks, enterprise PHP development, high-end application development, formal software engineering, agile development processes.
One of the main difference is about the utilization of frameworks. I sincerely think that the PHP professionals are currently relying too much on the Zend framework. It’s well designed sometimes, but over-engineered some other times, not complete (it lacks of many useful things, like a serious Form manipulation), not fully scalable.
Moreover, I’ve noticed a kind of «oh my god keep clear from the CMSs!».
Which is a feeling I can share, unless I do need a CMS.
Most important to me is to understand that while a “classical” CMS is sometime useless for some type of application developments, a CMF coul be extremely useful if you have to build your own CMS.
And when we are in the PHP world, by CMF I mean exclusively Drupal.
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