Some company (multinational, ~200 employees) got smart and decided not to throw $20000+ for an intranet portal they can get for almost free. So instead of using something like Oracle Portals and Java stuff (waste of time and money), they want me to adapt a PHP (productivity, horizontal scalability) portal for their purposes.
Requirements are Oracle DB (I'll have to convert MySQL calls to Oracle if it doesn't have native support for it), integration with an LDAP directory (at least for authentication), and a good calendar software. I'm to take care of the rest, like the particular mods required by this company on the calendar, ensuring the boards are up to the PHPBB2 standards, etc. A nice plus would be support for managing external documents (PDF, DOC) uploaded to the portal and not just written in it, and the ability to index and search such documents.
I've been evaluating many portals/CMSs, including PHP-Nuke (which I've used in the past), PostNuke, XOOPS, MDPro, Mambo, TikiWiki, and ezPublish. For now MDPro looks best but I wanted to know if you have any advice on this or you know of a portal that better fits my needs.
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Anonymous2005-03-16 13:20
TikiWiki is a doll, but it tends to get bogged down easily. They also focus on doing a lot of modules and applications, which is nice from the integration perspective, but they are not be anywhere near as powerful as the respective standalone apps. These neat things are bloaty, and obviously takes a lot of custom code-tinkering to get something else to work with it. They also have hit-and-miss documentation, but throw a question on the forums, and often the developers will be first to answer.
PHPBB2 is a steaming pile of shit. We're using a heavily hacked version of it for our CMS, and honestly, the code is to the point where it's going to implode upon itself. I'm about halfway though a complete rewrite of the entire site (though still in shitty ass PHP), and it's a hell of a lot cleaner and much less bloated than that faggy piece of shit PHPBB2.
OP here, I'm still working on the portal, I expect it to be finished in three more years. My company has spent over $20M so far on the project. I'm starting to think we should have gone another path, but I'm fine with this, work security and all.