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Zend Framework with Concrete5 as CMS, help!

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Hi all,

I've been told to post my question here from Twitter, hope someone can advise.

I am using ZF to develop a site (e-commerce) but i am looking for a standard and good CMS that i can integrate with.

Is it possible to set up a site with ZF but uses Concrete5 as the CMS?

Will also need the ability to create custom modules/add ons such as Product Manager or Order Manager. How easy can we do this?

Basically what i have in mind is, C5 as the CMS to manage the products, pages and data. Then for the site front end, will use ZF's Model/Controller to access the database and information.

I am open to suggestions on the best way to approach this.

Thank you.
 
andrew replied on at Permalink Reply
andrew
Hmm. You could certain integrate ZF's model functionality into concrete5, using concrete5's controllers to call ZF models, etc... but using ZF's controller functionality with concrete5 would probably be challenging.

You can also drop concrete5 into a particular folder on your server and use that to manage CMS for just a particular node in your site. For example, say you have

http://www.mysite.com/

and then you have an about section which you want to use concrete5 in:

http://www.mysite.com/about/

while making it so that the rest of the site is managed by ZF and some custom stuff. You can drop a concrete5 installation into multiple subfolders
terenze replied on at Permalink Reply
Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your suggestion, sounds like that's the way. Guess i just have to give it a go rather than keep asking :)

So if i do this:

http://www.mysite.com/c5/ - CMS/Admin

And everything else (normal pages) in ZF:

http://www.mysite.com/about/
http://www.mysite.com/cart/
Other dynamic pages like products etc..

Do you think that will work?

Thanks!