Hi, I've been looking at several CMS packages for a project I'll be taking on, and I must've read through hundreds of articles and forums by now. It's come down to deciding between Typo3, Joomla, and Drupal, and right now I'm just about to go wtih Drupal, but I want to pop a question to the community here first.
One of the goals of my site is to allow users pages with a custom RSS feed aggregator that will allow users to (1) select from a list of RSS feeds, and/or (2) define their own custom RSS feeds. They'd be able to position these feeds anywhere on their own user pages, similar to Google's personalized user pages. In addition, users would be able to aggregate and catagorize various feeds into larger, sortable "parent" feeds. For example, XML feeds that have a common field called "date" would be globally sortable by "date," etc.
Besides the RSS feeds, I need a gallery, forums, and a way for users to post reviews and comments, but I'm pretty sure Drupal has those areas covered. So my main concern right now is the RSS feed aggregator on user pages. After looking through Typo3, Joomla, and Drupal, I don't see anything out-of-the-box that will support the advanced RSS feature, so I've resigned myself to writing one up myself. From what I've read, Drupal's code is a lot prettier, easier, and more powerful to work with, which is why I'm leaning towards Drupal right now. (I'm a novice php/mysql coder-- I've written various applications including a small wiki and cms, but nothing like the Drupal).