title: Using a CMS to Design a Web Application
body: <p>Is it at all practical to try to use Joomla or Drupal to design anything but brochure-ware or a blogging website? Are the modules/extensions frameworks really flexible enough for designing web applications that have a lot of data entry and reporting capabilities, or would you just be better designing it using a MVC framework, ASP.NET or just plain to-the-metal PHP?</p>
  
  <p>Say you want to design a web application that is primarely used for entering in data and reporting on that data. For example: you want to design a website for people that own race horses. </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Primary data entry involves user entering in the
  physical attributes and race records
  for all their horses.</p></li>
  <li><p>Reporting is available for finding statistics and other metrics based on the physical attributes and race records for all the horses in the database: the users and what others have entered.</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>What would be the reasons or benefits of doing this in a CMS?</p>