[Zope] Zope used as development environment for *general* dynamic website programming like portals?

[Falk Hertel]

Hallo Sirs,

may I ask you all a simple question?
"Is there anywhere a CMS program that is optimal for (complex) offer/seek portals?"

All offered CMS on the market seem to be written only for editors although they could be used -
when making some modifications on them - e.g. for portal development also, shouldn't they?

Obviously there does not seem to exist a 'development environment' that combines the advantages
of PHP editors (e.g. PHPEdit, Zend Studio, Maguma) and CMS (Typo3, Mambo, PHPNuke, etc.) and
HTML-WYSIWYG editors (Dreamweaver, Fusion, GoLive, etc.)!?

The problem so far is that...
* a CMS mainly consists of a collection of scripts - without comfortable screen/surface and made
only for editors. Therefore they have a very comfortable account management und a powerful script
collection.
* a PHP development tool does not have a comfortable surface and e.g do not support a comfortable
way to access to databases (like it is e.g. done in Visual basic: the 'data control') . Therefore
it comes with good development instruments like a debugger.
* WYSIWYG editors have a bad support of dynamic programming (PHP scripts, database
connection/queries, ...). Therefore they have a very comfortable possibility to build up a screen
by drag&drop and they also care for the different browser versions.

At the moment you can build up a portal only with several html and php supporting programs, and
have to switch between them.
Isn't there anywhere an environment that puts them all together and makes fast and easy dynamic
web programming in general possible?
Is Zope such a tool??
Or what are the advantages (and disadvantages?) of Zope here?

* Are there import facilities for e.g. (Netobjects) Fusion (.nod) to take over their Navigation and
templates? Or nice export possibilities?
* Is there a debugger? 
* Does Zope care for different browsers? 
* Is there a Drag&drop facility for building templates? 
* Is Zope able to generate and manage a navigation bar (with open up under-layers) from the site
tree-structur (see NO Fusion e.g.)?
...
How would you compare Zope to e.g. Typo3 ?  Do you know Typo3?

Hmmh, is there any 'source' where I could get a general overview about CMS systems to find out
which one is best for my purpose?

Many thanks for your help!!

My best regards to everybody,
Falk

PS: Merry christmas!