I'm developing and designing a site for a customer. I would like to give him some control over content but also allow myself control over the outputted code/graphic.
Normally for simple sites, I am using toko cms (content editor), but for this site i need something more advanced with database and user sync (LDAP).
Any recommendations ? Maybe a robust but productive framework?
Drupal has an LDAP module, and is generally a good solid CMS.
You'll get lots of recommendations to a question quite as open-ended as that.
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Me, I absolutely know that the correct answer to all questions involving what framework to use is Django.
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If you need LDAP support, there's django-ldap-groups.
Note that Django itself is not a CMS, it's a framework for building "content management systems" (whatever you mean by that term).