By bonesmang on

I am interested in using drupal to handle my backend CMS. I was wondering if drupal would be the right choice for me. Right now, I use wordpress as a make-shift CMS, and I program my pages in Coldfusion and they access the WP database to display on my site (I do not use the wordpress themes as my site)

Is this something that is possible in Drupal? Basically, I need drupals CMS and Taxonomy features. But is it worth me programming my site around drupals DB or are there other options?

Thanks in advance.

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ambientdrup’s picture

ambientdrup commented

Drupal is a full blown CMS/framework so it would work. I'd suggest you read up on the documentation here:

http://drupal.org/handbooks

-backdrifting

msimanga’s picture

msimanga commented

Not sure what you mean by backend CMS but I would recommend importing you content into Drupal and therefore you will be able to fully utilise all Drupal's features. There is a module to import content and one to import Taxonomies too.

RavenHursT’s picture

RavenHursT commented

I'm actually doing just this. We have a Zend platform that three sites are build on, and we're using a Drupal instance (using the JSON views and a theme that only outputs the markup for nodes, no head, body, block or region elements) to handle the bulk of local content management. If you want another solution that is more capable of this kind of operation "out of the box".. Try TeamSite. It's a CMS-only system that allows you to "inject" content into other web apps... But the short answer to your question is yes.. Drupal can def handle it.. it just takes some work to get it to do what you're asking..

DaveSmall’s picture

DaveSmall commented

This definite works. And you might want to spend sometime to study the database structure of Drupal which is somehow complex than WordPress.