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Thanks guys, but another great inclination for me to use drupal is that I only know 1 frame work (codeigniter) and no CMS... A programmer (specially a freelancer) should know ATLEAST one cms... So now this will help me expand my expertise as well as get a website done ... Plus from what I've learned so far, it is much more durable for me to learn than wordpress. Wordpress just seemed to have a million simple features which made it extremely boring to learn....

Thanks for the info... Also, I dont get where the discussion of paid CMS came in from? I dont get why people would by a CMS when there are so many that are free. I wouldve up voted some answers but I dont think such a feature is present in the forum? In any case, I've decided to go with drupal right now... Primarily because: I believe that the front end can be quite fast Apparently it is built with developers in mind and note designers (unlike wordpress) A lot of modules, etc I realize that I want to add a feature for reviews, comments, etc and thus having a cms would be quite helpful As a programmer and a freelancer, it would prove to be useful to learn a CMS What I basically mean by front-end being fast is that my target audince will likely not have very fast internet connections, so I need the web page to be light and open quickly... In any case, I am learning drupal right now. Should have quite an understanding of it in about a week and then if it proves to be unsuitable for me, will go for codegniter, but most likely will be using drupal..

Was hoping for a recommendation.. I am a junior/med level programmer.. Do a bunch of small web-development projects mainly in php with codeigniter framework. I've got a web app idea which I've decided to develop myself and trying to decide on a cms to use (if to use one at all). Basically I am trying to make a site like pricegrabber.com, which parses a number of websites for items and their prices and lists them. I dont like wordpress, it's slow, really boring to learn, and overkill for what I am trying to do. Speed (for the frontend) is of quite importance. so basically, should I use a cms? if so, should I go for a codeigniter based cms (like egypt cms) or some other more popular one (like drupal? or joomla?). I guess codeigniter cms would be better for me since I am already skilled in codeigniter, but other major cms would have greater support and many other advantages? I think?

hey guys.. im learning php atm, and decided to become a member of this site since i will probably be doing a decent amount of php in the future inshAllah, and when ur active in something, its always helpful to be an active member in a forum related to that "something"... anyways, im doing a practice project in php (making a forum), and trying do decide on a mechanism to keep a user logged in. ive created a user class, through which a user is authenticated (on sign in) and all future user account related operations will be through that class (i.e user related info retrival, when a user makes a post/comment, etc) to keep a user logged in, the easiest path seemed to be to use session and store the user object in a session (not cookies since that would be a security risk), but after doing some reaserch i found out that sessions can but a huge load on a system, specially if large amounts of data is saved in them. im thinking a second alternative would be to save only the user id, but that would mean on each page i will have to rebuild the user object, which i guess would again put a significant load on the server. what is the best method to use, whether it be an alternative to using session altogether, or an alternative implementation? thanks in advance