What are the (dis)advantages of Pimcore?

Question

I am looking for a CMS based on Zend Framework and I read about Pimcore. Now I have some questions about it:

• Does anyone have experience with this CMS?
• Wh

Answer 1

Now its already version 1.4.4.

I am using it for some time, for all my web projects. It is really an excellent core for developing various projects.

I think that the biggest advantage is that there is no frontend module. You just make custum one. And I had no problems so far updateing the pimcore, becase you only update backend, and really nothing can go wrong if you havent changed core. Maybe some miner updates on frontend are needed but i had no such exemple for now.

Other advanategs: - plugin development is nice arhitectured, and you can use extjs for almost any purpose. Since version 1.4.3. you can also put your views and controllers in plugin, so you dont have to code like login and other stuff more than once. - WebDav for Assets managment - pixlr for image editing - very good page and subpage editing (you actualy see page how it looks while editing), you can develop custom elements of page easily - community and pimcore team is very helpful on forum - ...

Disadvantages: - people that are not really in to computers find it difficult to edit simple page, people that like to explore a bit and are not afraid to click and try fond it interesting (you have to learn custumer in beginning)

For me its very inutiutive, but I am a programmer.

If you have Zend Framework background I think its very good choice. After a year of usege on my projects I am very satisfied that I decided to use and learn Pimcore.