What is the best web framework for easy development of a media archive?

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I would like to create a media (music/video) archive containing a substantial amount of easily searchable metadata, I would like all of the media to be stored and served on our own servers (no youtube, etc) Is there something out there which meets these requirements (preferably open source) and if not where do you think the best place to start is, i would really prefer to not have to code a whole solution from scratch.

That Guy Over There · Accepted Answer

You may find good luck with a number of different CMSes (Content Management Systems). Each one has their limitations and their benefits. The ones I would recommend looking into are the following: Wordpress (great for media, very simple), Drupal, MODx (if you want a lot of configurability), SilverStripe (slick admin interface), or ExpressionEngine.

Wordpress and Drupal have by far the largest communities behind them. However ExpressionEngine has a good sized community and version 2 (currently in beta) is built on the ever awesome CodeIgniter framework. Speaking of actual frameworks I would recommend using CodeIgniter if you decided to build this from the ground up. If you need some extra power tools for your system then consider integrating some or all of the Zend framework into your CodeIgniter setup. This has been done many times and there are many articles on doing this.

Check out this article: http://www.webdesignbooth.com/20-promising-open-source-php-content-management-systemscms/

Also when looking at the packages above play with the demos and then look at all the extensions and plugins available for them from the community. You will be shocked at how many things have be pre-written for you.

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Java JSP / Servlets Java Server Faces

Anonymous · Answer

you should check out phpmotion.

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