[thelist] Portal site quandary

Molly Magai mollymagai at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 11:36:56 CDT 2007


You mean Docs and Spreadsheets? Looks pretty interesting - but my client
wants something on their own site. Gotta be code, not a service.

On 7/23/07, Thomas Moore < thdomo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thought about using Google Aps?
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> You can control a lot including domain names and it comes with gmail
> and a lot of other things.
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> On 7/23/07, Molly Magai <mollymagai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've been asked to create a portal site. My client wants user access
> > controlled thusly: a company is given a password. To create a new user,
> a
> > person must first log in with their email address and company password.
> The
> > system checks the company password against their email domain (that is,
> if
> > they are from Microsoft the domain needs to be microsoft.com). Then the
> > person may create their own user and password which they can use from
> then
> > on to get into the site. It'll be on an apache server, and I plan to use
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> > PHP. Once they're in, the site is super simple, just some basic pages
> and
> > downloads.
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> > I can build this, but would prefer not to reinvent the wheel especially
> on
> > the basic user/password stuff, as opposed to the fancy company password
> part
> > which probably could sit on top of an existing solution. Would it make
> sense
> > to use a CMS of some kind, or someone's canned code? Anyone tried this?
> >
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