[Zope] Is Zope the answer?

[Steve Purkiss]

Hi,

I've been asked to do some more development on a London night clubbing site
I wrote a while ago - http://www.belugablues.com

It was the first site I wrote in PHP (using Java before until I saw how much
easier PHP was) and so the code is not the best.

I might rewrite from scratch, but I'm also considering rewriting it using a
framework or CMS as a base and was wondering if any of you good people could
advise whether using Zope would be a "good thing" - and if not then any
other recommendations welcome. I've been looking through all the ones on
http://www.cmsinfo.org and am just getting more confused. I want to find a
system I can work with on more than just this one project. I developed a
site using PostNuke, but the design of this site is quite tight and wouldn't
fit into PN very well - different world.

Current Features of the site:

* Event management systems so staff can add an event which users of the site
can book free guest list places on - a guest list is automatically built so
staff can print it off before the event.
* General content management system for news, advertising, and page
information
* Membership system so people can sign up to the site
* Email list function so staff can mail the whole list or subsections of the
list (i.e.. depending on when their birthday is)
* Photo Gallery

Requested features:

* HTML email (ya boo :) with direct links to book guest list places
* Enable for multiple countries & cities
* Remove initial login page so people don't have to sign up until they want
to book something (as I suggested they did in the first place...)
* Expand booking system to include hotels, cars, yachts & apartments. This
won't be all online, but simply a form which requests start and end dates
for booking the items then the rest is done manually.

Hope the list doesn't mind me asking this - I've done as much research as I
can without asking. Any advice would be most gratefully appreciated. I'm not
afraid to learn new stuff, I just don't want to end up choosing the wrong
system!!!

Thanks