Help choosing a CMS

for a writers management agency

[freddy webby1]

I'm making a site for a writers management company. They get tons of script submissions every day from prospective and often unsolicited writers. The new site will allow a prospective writer to submit a short logline / sample of his or her idea. This idea gets sent to an email account at the management group. If the management group likes what they see, they want to be able to approve that submission from within the email and have a unique link dispatched to the submitter to upload their full script. This link would either only work once, or only for a certain amount of time so that only the intended recipient could use it.

So, can anyone point me in the direction of some sort of (I'm assumine PHP + mySQL) CMS or framework that could accomplish this? I've searched a lot, but I can't seem to figure out the right way to phrase this query to a search engine.

Thanks!

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld freddy webby1.

The CMS Matrix site used to have a table that you could sort by features...at least I think they did. It doesn't seem to work that way now. I was going to suggest you search there.

This e-mail system sounds a bit more than you would find in an off the shelf install of the major CMS packages. You may need to look for available plug-ins or add-ons for your preferred system. Otherwise it would be good to look for a CMS with a large and active developer community that you could access for custom work.

[ergophobe]

I don't know Bill, I can approve a comment on Wordpress from within the email, so it can't be that hard. Of course, you have to be logged in as an admin and you have to actually go to the page.

I wonder if you wouldn't want to look into some Support Ticket system and work from there.

As for CMS, I know drupal best. Not recommending it for this, but just to give an idea.

The drupal support ticket module says this:

* Configurable email notifications for new and updated tickets.

* Email integration allows tickets to be created and updated via email, with support for attachments. New users can be automatically created.

The "mailhandler" module and "mail2web" allow people to post and respond to posts via email.

Somehow you have to link all this together with some workflow management (also available to drupal).

It strikes me, though, that you're opening your system up pretty wide and you'll be using the modules most likely to have security exploits not to mention heaps of spam.