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Posted by Christian Moran
Christian Moran
6,514 Points

Tips for new developing site.

I wanted to know what platform/framework would be ideal for building a site that would have users login and add events to promote. At the moment I know how to use the following

HTML CSS JS PHP

I have only created sites that are associated with blogs. Using wordpress and ghost. This will be something new for me and just dont know where to start.

Forgot to mention that it will have a payment method for a user that want to promote an event. Will have to register for a monthly membership.

3 Answers

Matthew Mariner
Matthew Mariner
17,666 Points
Matthew Mariner
Matthew Mariner
17,666 Points

I would recommend PHP for E-Commerce related web dev. This is because many of the 2015 websites associated with checkout's have been using PHP and their reasoning is because of the ease of change and user interface.

Christian Moran
Christian Moran
6,514 Points

Thanks for your reply. Any specific framework? I was thinking laravel, but not sure.

Matthew Mariner
Matthew Mariner
17,666 Points
Matthew Mariner
Matthew Mariner
17,666 Points

I assume that would work.

My PHP dev friends usually use Magento and OpenCart. From first glance I seemed to prefer OpenCart because its designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

Moises Pedraza
Moises Pedraza
7,664 Points
Moises Pedraza
Moises Pedraza
7,664 Points

Hi Christian, If you´re familiar with Wordpress you can use it for your site, you can add an event calendar with this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/ and, to sell your events, you could install a great plugin for e-commerce: Woocommerce http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/

Both are free and great to use on your site, also, you colud check great courses here on teamtreehouse on making Wordpress Themes.

Good luck with your site