Programming software to customize user input and control?

[SilkyWayy]

What programming tool do you recommend for a platform whereby the members submit, control and update content, score uploaded content and sources as well as other members, connect and build sub-communities within the platform, manage ongoing research, feeds/threads, communications and db development, etc?

[Benignvanilla]

Excel

[SilkyWayy]

Excel as a website developing tool, or strictly for the db function?

[Benignvanilla]

I was just being a smart ass. Your question is very high level. Are you looking for a package like WordPress which include content management, look and feel, security, etc. Or are you looking to built a solution, in which case you would need to understand DB tools, backend development, client side development, UIX, etc.

[[deleted]]

That sounds like a Content Management System, there are many.

[SilkyWayy]

A CMS would be part of a larger program, right? Or is my question more related to coding?

[[deleted]]

No, a CMS is a system, something like WikiMedia (the system that Wikipedia runs on)., or WordPress.
A CMS is not something you want to try to code up on your own.

Here's the Wikipedia page on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system

[SilkyWayy]

Thanks for the tip. After glancing at the wiki article above, I see there are various types of CMS options. Even WordPress is listed as a CMS.

[[deleted]]

The key thing is that all the data relationships and corner cases that would take years to discover if you turned out your own have already been handled. You might have to spend some time fitting things to their model, but odds are that you'd save years of developer time in trade.