CMS in CI

[eluser]llbbl[/eluser]
It takes years to become good at PHP, CI is best used by people who already know PHP well, have been using it for a long time. With RoR it can do a couple things easily so you think its the greatest thing since sliced bread, but in reality it is not.

No matter how good a framework is, you need the learn the language and become a professional at it. Ruby sucks. I recommend becoming an expert at PHP, Python and some Perl.

Even the best CMS or framework can't be the right tool 100% of the time. It can only provide general tools that an expert programmer customizes to work for the site. CI already provides a good set of tools for people to start working with.

In reality many of the tools (wiki, forums, user admin, photo galleries) that would make a CMS good have already been written by EllisLabs and are sold as ExpressionEngine. And such a project would never be officially supported by this website because it would be a direct competition for their main product. Which means that we would never see the CMS make it into the core SVN, it would have to exist outside codeigniter.com.

I would like to see Ellis Open Source EE and move into the business of selling support, also charging developers a yearly fee to be an authorized EE representative.