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I love the idea of a framework that lets you code without having to do a lot of front-end work. I’m less of a designer and more of a back-end coder. I’m pretty good at coding in PHP and have some experience with Zend Framework too. I’ve been using WP as a favorite platform for content management but not for custom websites that serve out data.
So, the website I’m looking to write would need these abilities:
- subscription based/multi-user service
- each login would have separate db, or at least the ability to pull db entries based on unique user ID
- serve out data tables and cross referenced data based on custom joins
Think of a site where you an add your record collection and the musicians on each album, then cross reference the albums that use certain musicians. Could be any kind of data, but that’s the idea.
If there’s a way to do database pulls based on unique user ID, then that would take care of the multi-user aspect, but I’m not sure if this is part of the scope of functionality behind Piklist.
Also, thought I’d comment on the CSS shading of the “solved” forum items. Maybe it’s just me, but the shading is a bit too light to read comfortably. At least one shade darker would be more usable for me.
Thanks!
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Wordpress can definitely handle what your thinking of building.
We use a multisite/multiuser install, that handles a front end site for the customer, a back-end site for the administration, a staffing site for the teachers and rec leaders, and an accounting and ecommerce site for all purchasing and inventory control.
Our client processes over $1.8 million in just 8 weeks, and they handle about 5000 students a year who change classes, staff members, locations, maintenance issues on a weekly, daily, hourly basis, so yes, wordpress can handle what your thinking of doing with it.
You’ve selected a good platform as your client will enjoy the ease of use and familiarity that WordPress provides.
After all, 409 million people a month use wordpress sites. So it can do just about anything, so you’ve selected the right package.And one last note. We use only 1 third party plugin on all of our sites, PIKLIST. 🙂
Everything else is built with my small pea brain and Piklist.Marcus
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Thanks for your feedback Marcus! So you’re saying you started with a plain WP install and used Piklist to totally re-purpose WP for your needs? It’s interesting to see the frameworks out there and the few that look interesting is Yii, Slim Framework, Prado and Piklist. It’s no surprise that the core WP library could be refashioned do other things than serving blog posts.
It sounds like you might have a slightly different setup than I’m wanting. It *sounds* like you have admin logins who have read/write access to the SAME database and viewers (students) who access the site to lookup (read) class data, etc. My goal would be to have a unique data set for each login.
Thanks!
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Your welcome Ariev.
I don’t have an install that relies completely on one database, in fact, the staffing would be a different database than the customer one, and the accounting and reporting are different databases, also the users on staffing use a different DB than the users who are parents or children in the customer one.
But with WPMU (WordPress Multisite or Multiuser) all the tables can talk to each other. (so building a new class which is part of the customer db, pulls the data from the staff database, etc.)
And to integrate more databases and data sources, isn’t that difficult.
As you move throughout your development, feel free to post here, and we’ll help in any way we can.
Marcus
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