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Question

I would like to develop a pretty complex website, like a network with many functionalities, with 2/3 kinds of users, affiliates, stats, apps and hundreds maybe thousands of pages, notifications, multi layered users area, and much more.

With time passsing, I get more ideas and the site and its databases gets more and more complex and I would like to always be able to improve it, enhance it, to be able to build new modules and functions.

for now The site has its own php CMS for content publishing, application and member management, etc

The thing is I am not sure if to build it from scratch in PHP or rebuild it with Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress or any other CMS out there.

What do you think?

Answer 1

If the site is going to be that big, then custom PHP will take a very long time. Not only will you have to write everything, but then the extensive testing + bug fixes will also be extremely time consuming. However if you do have the time for it, providing you developed it using good coding standards, the loading speeds would be faster than using a CMS and you would of course have more flexibility.

On the other hand (and I'm not going to recommend a CMS as everyone has their own opinions), using a CMS will save you an major amount of time and will of course provide you with a stable developing environment and framework to work with. Not to mention you have thousands of extensions for each that are available to use, which again, saves a lot of dev time.

In the end, the choice is entirely up to you. If it were me, I would decide based on the deadline.

Hope this helps