: Best tools to build an auction website Can I get your feedback on the best tools to build an auction website with the following features: The site takes a commission (like 5%) on each transaction

@Shelton105

You can quickly build a basic auction website with www.drupal.org/project/commerce_auction. But as other say if it grow it will certainly be easier without a CMS.

In my point of view, starting with Drupal commerce will let you quickly try and check if your projets has a market... then if it's works and you are making money you can rewrite it.

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@Samaraweera270

What ever you do just stay away from wordpress/joomla. As project becomes larger your code becomes more and more harder to maintain.

If you are php developer, i would recommend you to try symfony 2 framework. You will need more time to develop initial version, but on the long run its way better solution.

Symfony 2 has a lot bundles(user written bundles) for almost any thing you will need for auction webiste(knpbundles.com). All bundles are free to use.

There are also bundles for easy integration with Facebook for example. Bundles for easy User managment and so on.

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@Rivera981

Personally if I were to roll my own I would choose Ruby on Rails. I have done C# and Java development extensively and I have supported PHP web applications, RoR will get you there faster and the Ruby language is very dynamic and has some great "short cut" methods and functions that cut down on the amount of code you need to complete your task. All I'm saying is if you are going to develop your own site then take a couple of hours to investigate Ruby and the Rails framework.

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@Shanna517

I would probably try and avoid any CMS' (Content Management Systems), since the primary focus of your application is not content management.

If you do choose to use an application framework, make sure it is unbiased to the type of application you're writing, or tailored specifically to what you are doing. Trying to make a CMS be an auction site could very well cause scalability issues, as well as hinder the development speed of auction related features.

Whatever language you choose to use is probably not important, but some are more tailored to websites and web applications. My choice language and framework are C# with ASP.NET MVC.

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