The web application has following prerequisites: Written in PHP Several menues, also a hierarchy so that there are second and third level navigational elements dependent on the active trail Usergroups with different access restrictions Pages that are differently displayed dependent on the usergroup of the current visitor Registered users should be able to comment a specific subgroup of pages Possibility to use different payment methods to buy extended access for a specific period of time, with generation invoice documents Creation of coupon codes to reduce the prices Well, most stuff is pretty basic CMS stuff, but the last two points is eCommerce related. Currently the app is realized as Drupal 7 / Ubercart webpage, but these are packages in BETA state, so i'd like to see if there are other solutions. Magento? Is Magento capable of that CMS stuff? Or Magento with a bridge to another CMS like Drupal?

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Reputation: 29749

Practical eCommerce / CMS solution for webpage with restricted content to paying users

The web application has following prerequisites:

Written in PHP
Several menues, also a hierarchy so that there are second and third level navigational elements dependent on the active trail
Usergroups with different access restrictions
Pages that are differently displayed dependent on the usergroup of the current visitor
Registered users should be able to comment a specific subgroup of pages
Possibility to use different payment methods to buy extended access for a specific period of time, with generation invoice documents
Creation of coupon codes to reduce the prices

Well, most stuff is pretty basic CMS stuff, but the last two points is eCommerce related. Currently the app is realized as Drupal 7 / Ubercart webpage, but these are packages in BETA state, so i'd like to see if there are other solutions.

Magento? Is Magento capable of that CMS stuff?

Or Magento with a bridge to another CMS like Drupal?

Upvotes: 1

Answers (3)

splatio

Reputation: 504

As has been said, Drupal 7 is stable and currently on version 7.10.

I'd suggest Drupal Commerce for the shopping cart functionality, it's power comes in the fact it isn't build for a single use case and is more of a framework that site builders and other modules can build upon. It is also tightly integrated with views and rules, and is very much built the 'Drupal Way'. You'll find modules for coupons and payment gateways along with many others to extend the (purposefully) limited Drupal Commerce functionality.

Add on to this the fact that one of Drupal's strong points is it's users, roles and permissions system, along with loads of content access modules and a brilliant menu system.

Drupal isn't the right choice in all cases but it seems the perfect choice for you needs in this case.

Upvotes: 2

Lynob

Reputation: 5347

zen-cart does it

see this for coupons, i mean it does it all, you can download this to integrate zen-cart with drupal, instead of doing it using drupal only

Upvotes: 0

Miguel Lomelí

Reputation: 1324

Drupal 7 was released over a year ago now and Ubercart is in RC3. Where did you get that info? They are both pretty stable. Drupal 6 would be an alternative too.

Those requirements seem easy enough with Drupal and Ubercart so I wouldn't get them out of the table since Drupal has a large userbase and great support on the forums and IRC.

Upvotes: 1

Practical eCommerce / CMS solution for webpage with restricted content to paying users

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