What CMS is good for user-defined metadata?

[DaveC426913]

I'm looking on opensourcecms.com but frankly, it's just TOO big.

I'm looking for a CMS that supports (preferably by default rather than development) many user fields for metadata.

Think of sites that might track things like weather observations or personals or logs for divers/hikers/athletes.

The simple subject/body model of post is inadequate. In each post, the user will be specifying several fields, maybe location (city, state, altitude), date/time entries (of the event not of the user's home), etc.

You might want to search and get results on all events in a given city, or on a given day or with a certain set of equipment.

I don't need *those* fields, I just need a CMS that supports fields and data formats I can define at development time. (I'm sure they all do - with varying levels of development; I'd like to start as far along as possible).

Any ideas?

 

[DaveC426913]

Oh yeah. I meant to say: I've been playing with Drupal, but it's a loooong way to go from where it is to get what I want. I'd like to get the best head start possible.

 

[DaveC426913]

(Where is the 'edit post' button???)

I'm not sure I made it plain: this is a public site that will attract users to post their entries for all to read.

 

[electronicmonkey]

You may want to try Joomla. I've been using it for several projects for almost a year now

 

[DaveC426913]

Great! Thanks! Can I bend your ear about it a little to see if it's what I should use?

I'm particularly interested in the ease with which I can attach additional fields to user entries. I know any CMS can do it, I just hope I can find one that doesn't require a huge amount of back-end development-from-scratch.


If you have anything online using Joomla or other, I'd really REALLY like to see it in operation.

 

[electronicmonkey]

most of my CMS sites are Joomla based (done several Drupal, Wordpress , Rainbow and DNN though). Look at my website at

http://www.websesame.co.uk

(Clients)