WEB PEOPLE: Trying to decide on CMS software for State Party site...

[rabid_nerd]

For Website.

State Level Party website that I'm working on.

The biggest feature requests are a Calendar and a membership-database admin from a chapter to county to regional to state level, but I'm expecting to have to manually develop that.

I have PHP/ColdFusion/Perl/ASP on IIS 4/NT 4

(so sue me, I have the same setup as where I work for my day job :-P )

I'd rather go PHP.
I have MySQL.

I'm leaning towards phpWebsite for the general site:
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/index.php

But I've been impressed by many in the lineup at:
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.php

Is there one with the same general feature set as phpWebsite that could handle progressive security levels of member editing with customizable member fields?

Thanks!

[rabid_nerd]

1. although maybe I'll go

drupal...?

www.drupal.org

Maybe not...

I'm trying to find user administration on staggered levels:

admin - god access
state exec - near god access
state sec - administrate state users, might be near god
region exec - regional section admin, regional users admin
region sec - near region exec
county exec - county section admin, county users admin
county sec - near county exec

[ixion]

2. php and mysql are great together...

I would get rid of IIS though, in lieu of apache. You'll be happy you did. ;-)

[rabid_nerd]

3. I would but

I use it so I keep my mind in one spot...

I do have another hosting account on *nix/Apache/PHP but it's not a whole server unto itself (shared account)...

I do love text file configuration though so much easier.

Oh well... I live in a windows corporation and I don't make the tech decisions!