We are discussing design of a site similar to foodler.com with lots hits and a lot of the users (up to 20-50k per day) using the search feature and logging in and interacting with the site. Also what other "proper frameworks" other than Yii are suitable for such projects? Please if u can, do not use programming lingo as it will go over my head

Also, do these frameworks cost a lot of $? Is it worth it investing in the best one for this particular project given I have the funds and quality, speed and usability of the site is more important to me than price?

here is the advice in question for me:

"Joomla is a content management system and a slow one at that. Does not scale well either. A very bad choice for a web application development if your site gets anywhere near popular. Actually choosing a CMS for web application development isn't 'traditional'

If you gonna have that site developed in PHP, forget Joomla, forget even Drupal (for the record - I adore Drupal) and get developers do it using a proper framework like Yii. Then, if it ever gets popular, you won't have to re-write it. "



Thanks in advance

50k users/day is nothing.

It could be done in CakePHP, Yii, CodeIgniter, Symfony, whatever. That won't be the blocking issue.

i would agree with the advice you quoted. frameworks are made for application development while cms's are made to 'post stuff' online. when you need to define business rules in code you are going to want a framework.

if you are going to use php i would recommend the zend framework. that said, probably any of the billion frameworks in that language will do.

CI or Zend. gogogo

Suitable frameworks have already been listed. They are all (as far as I know) open source so do not cost anything. Finding a good developer tho can cost a lot.