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Hello Xoopsers,
I am helping my company start a big web development project, and I've been asked to look at Content Management Environments to see if they do the kind of things we are looking for.
Xoops looks very powerful. It certainly does some of the things we need in its core and optional modules. Our criteria are that we need:
- A collaborative environment where our authors can develop and publish information on the web without technical knowledge.
- Community building tools and a registration system with permissions, forums, commenting and rating systems.
However, we have quite specific requirements which are outside core functionality which we would have to develop or commission to make a 100% solution. Here is the non-standard bit:
- We need to be able to craft an adaptive, multi-page survey for each visitor. Their details will be stored between visits.
- At the end of the survey there will be a report about the process they have been through, suggestions as to what to do next, etc.
- Our technical guy envisages that the both the questionnaire will itself be database driven and dynamic.
- But the technical authors we will be using should be able to craft and classify content for this process simply.
I realise some of this is quite complex and may not come across well without reference to the specifics of the project, but I think you will appreciate this is a commercial development, and we need to keep our powder dry for now!
My questions for the XOOPS community are:
- Would it be possible to implement this in Xoops?
- If so, how difficult would it be to do?
- Is there any core functionality or a module which would give us a headstart on this? Formulize seems close to some of what we need in some ways.
- Does anyone have experience/examples of XOOPS scaling to high simultaneous user numbers, or examples of XOOPS being implemented in any blue-chip or prestige projects (this would reassure some of the project team)
- Are there any developers here, especially UK based, with experience of the kind of development we're talking about here?
I have to admit that at this stage I don't have access to a XOOPS installation for evaluation; I would need to delete something off my testing webserver in order to introduce it!
The project at the moment is at the option appraisal stage. We are evaluating a number of other CMSs and also the option of bespoke authoring for our product. However, foremost in our minds is that the less we spend getting the CMS functionality we need, the more we will have left to spend on content, which will be the real point of the site.
I look forward to your responses to this, thanks in advance for helping us out, guys!
