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[Austin Smith]

Hoping to find something interesting and new in the Open Source community, I
downloaded Lampshade... and it's not open source by any definition I know.
Open source means you can change the source code and then distribute your
changes, the source code is freely available (not "up to the owner" whether
to distribute or not) and doesn't discriminate between uses of the software
(personal vs. corporate, government, and academic use for example).

I'm sure the software is just fine, but calling it open source (even if you
secretly mean something different by "open-source") is misleading and
potentially damaging to the vast communities that created the components of
LAMP in the first place. "Open Source" means more than just "can view and
edit the source." Lampshade is Shareware.

I would give +1 to Zend, which I've had great success with, but for a portal
site, you may have to do too much heavy lifting with Zend. I still advocate
Drupal, which will be easy to create a custom layout for, has a massive
community, and a very good book.

Austin

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Matt Juszczak <matt at atopia.net> wrote:

> How hard is it to take something like this and adapt it to an existing
> HTML layout?  I don't mind RTFM, but I want to make sure if I invest the
> time it can do what I want.
>
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Donald J Organ IV wrote:
>
> > Check out the Andromeda Database Framework,
> http://www.andromeda-project.org/
> > I believe it will handle all your needs and then some.
> >
> > Matt Juszczak wrote:
> >> Hey folks,
> >>
> >> I've finally removed myself from all mailing lists that I was on EXCEPT
> the
> >> NY*.* lists, so now I can stop sending my emails to /dev/null and
> actually
> >> be engaged again without getting 500+ messages a day :)
> >>
> >> Anyway, I have a question that I'm hoping some people can assist me
> with. I
> >> need to design an account portal for my personal company.  Basically,
> I'd
> >> like to:
> >>
> >> - Have basic login/logout functionality, change password, etc.
> >> - Have a module system with access control (this user can access this
> >> module, etc.)
> >> - Be able to import my existing HTML template into this system.
> >>
> >> I could design my own, as it would be fairly straight forward to write
> >> something like this, but I'm wondering if others have pulled this off
> using
> >> open source software or another easy solution?  I don't want to go TOO
> >> complex if I don't have to.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> -Matt
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