Existing website written in PHP Zend Framework

Hi everyone,

I manage our corporate marketing website, which is written in PHP and the Zend Framework and is hosted on LAMP servers. I’ve been tasked with moving the website to a CMS so other folks on the marketing team can update content without having my dev team be the bottleneck for content publishing and changes.

However, our existing site is more of a web application, in that we use the Zend Framework and PHP code for back-end integrations with HubSpot, WebEx, etc. and various CRON jobs that hit endpoints on our site to do various jobs.

My concern is - how do I maintain the site as a web application without having to rewrite all that functionality in the language of the CMS. I’m trying to see if I can split the site into two pieces 1) the majority of the static pages powered by the CMS, and 2) the web application stuff that can remain powered by Zend Framework. Does anyone have experience doing this?

My concern is if I send some traffic to www.site.com/A and other traffic to www.site.com/B (A being the CMS and B being the web app) how do I handle common layout code like navigation and footer? Meaning if you update the nav in the CMS, this won’t magically appear on the web app side.

I’d love some help on this!

• Scott