Looking for a starting point on a project, need user group and admin capabilities
I'm about to start working on a site for a friend of mine, and rather than reinventing the wheel - I'd like to find a framework, or CMS I can gut, with a user system and a simple admin panel I can extend. I just need basic permissions, basic groups, and an admin area that certain users can manage the site with.

I've been looking at the various frameworks, and it seems like symfony is the only one that has an admin panel, but it requires PHP 5.3 - so that's out (He's using 5.2.x and can't update).
Looking for a starting point on a project, need user group and admin capabilities
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I'm about to start working on a site for a friend of mine, and rather than reinventing the wheel - I'd like to find a framework, or CMS I can gut, with a user system and a simple admin panel I can extend. I just need basic permissions, basic groups, and an admin area that certain users can manage the site with.

I've been looking at the various frameworks, and it seems like symfony is the only one that has an admin panel, but it requires PHP 5.3 - so that's out (He's using 5.2.x and can't update).