We are in alpha stage with Forward, which we call "the open source platform for custom e-commerce" -- but it's not just about online stores. It has components f

We are in alpha stage with Forward, which we call "the open source platform for custom e-commerce" -- but it's not just about online stores. It has components for building communities, blogs, user management, roles, login, etc. We are using it to build our own blog/forum/chat/community at getfwd.com. It's a lightweight system for building web apps in general, but it just so happens to have a few e-commerce APIs built in (which comes in handy if you ever decide to offer community subscriptions or sell t-shirts). Obviously this won't help you immediately because it's not available to download yet, but will be in less than 4 weeks. Here's a simple example of how you'd build a login page with it... {if $params.account} {get $account from "/accounts" [ login => $params.account, role => "any-required-role" ]} {if $account.errors == false} {$session.account_id = $account.id} {redirect "/welcome"} {/if} {/if} <form method="post"> <input type="email" name="account[email]" /> <input type="password" name="account[password]" /> <button type="submit">Log In</button> </form> You can read more about it and sign up for the beta at http://getfwd.com http://getfwd.com