New site with contact / dating functionality. Is CMSMS the right choice?

[vinke]

Hello everybody, hope some of you can help me on this:

I am about to develop a new site for a client similar to the http://www.club50fitness.com/ site. The site will be designed for 3 or 4 different user types (investors, franchisers, clubmembers and anonymous users). Each user type should have access to a special content section only for this type of user as well as a general section (e.g. investors should have access to investor related information after login).

On top of that some kind of contact/dating fucnctionality needs to be developed so that clubmembers can browse and contact other clubmembers (anonymously). We are thinking about a LinkedIn similar contact system, but not nearly with as much functionality).


I am a confident and experience designer with some more technical skills, but certainly no PHP programmer. CMSMS would be my choice of platform because it is so simple to use (also for the client, to maintpages themselves) and very flexible with it's template structure, enabling me to fully customize and design the site and fill it with the necessary content.

I am not sure though if CMSMS has the functionality it needs though. Therefore here some questions:

1. Can the modules CustomContent and FrontEndusers provide the member functionality I need. E.g. can it produce an extra menu item only visible to a particular usergroup?

2. The contact functionality obviously has to be custom developed. Is CMSMS flexible enough for this kind of development? If so, how do I get in contact with possible developers who would be willing to help me (paid of course). Any good developers reading this who are interested?

Hope to hear your comments on this.

Kind regards,
Erik V.

[Teddy]

Hi!

Very good question and Im interested aswell to here the answear on this one!

Ted

[tsw]

1. Can the modules CustomContent and FrontEndusers provide the member functionality I need. E.g. can it produce an extra menu item only visible to a particular usergroup?

If I recall correctly feusers and customcontent have groups and you can restrict pageviews on a group basis. it should do what you want.

2. The contact functionality obviously has to be custom developed. Is CMSMS flexible enough for this kind of development? If so, how do I get in contact with possible developers who would be willing to help me (paid of course). Any good developers reading this who are interested?

is cmsms flexible enough? sure!

it would just be new module which handles feusers integration (feusers has nice api too) and some custom coding for the contact part...

so basically I would say yes, but it will need some custom coding...