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[Federico Ulfo]

Howdy Matt -- for your project Wordpress is the best solution, because easy
to hack and fast to develop. Is probably not the most elegant code out
there, but is the best to have the job done! Also in WP other developers
can join the project later, and immediately understand it and hack it.

Avoid custom unless you have time and want to challenge yourself and learn
something new, and even in that case the best solution is to use a
framework, because it doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel, when lot of
functionality are already made and tested.

Keep me updated on the progress of your project,
Federico


On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Matt Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote:

> I've been doing some volunteer work for a local non-profit and they have
> been looking into re-doing their member management system.
>
> I decided not to build something custom because their needs are simple.
> Originally, I thought about going with something like SugarCRM and using
> that to store their members.  But eventually, they'd like shopping cart
> integration so they can have members purchase things and have them tied to
> their account.
>
> My next thought was to go Wordpress with woocommerce.  Members can be
> tracked as wordpress users and their role indicates their member level (I
> can create custom roles).  Woocommerce would faciliate the shopping cart
> and a simple wordpress plugin or two could handle the meta data that needs
> to be stored with each user.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on other PHP-based alternatives?
>
> Thanks!
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