I run a small Domain & webhosting reseller business. recently, my upstream Provide开发者_如何学Pythonr has start giving a HTTP/JSON based API. so I was thinking to make a site using that REST API. the end result that I am expecting is similar to http://www.beta.namecheap.com/ but lot simpler with less options
The site would have have
- Domains: check availability,transfers & new registration via http api
- Webhosting: Shared(Windows & Linux)
- Customer Contact creation: Registration form with submits data to HTTP API via POST method
- Shopping chart system,Live Chat for support
- Facebook & OpenID integration.
So tell me people, is a CMS framework like drupal right choice for this kind of site? should I look at some other CMS? OR I am better off in doing custom build cms using phpframework like cakephp or Symphony?
I need some advise on this topic
You could use Drupal, yes. There are modules that integrate OpenID and Facebook Connect already. Ubercart provides a full shopping cart out of the box. Users can register, or you can write a custom hook to save users that fill out a contact form to save contact info. Look at Webform module. You can also write the service to check for domains in a small simple module.
You can definitely do this a lot faster than writing it yourself.
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