Solution for web nightmare

My boss requested that new website be cranked out ASAP. I could write scripts to cover the prerequisites, but I can see that it could get out of control and would cost valuable time. Is there a solution?

Prerequisites:

• Multiple users/usergroups
• dynamic link management
• access control restrictions down to user level
• document security
• search engine results filtered for directory or page access

Badly phrased but that means that every user sees more or less links than the other. There may be a special page just for that user. The next user is important and has links to everything on his page.

Is there a tool or system to cope with 100-200 documents and 100 pages? The page master template with contain the dynamic links. There may be a couple of hundred users.

This sounds like a real web application, which can't be thrown together with random scripts and FrontPage. If he thinks it can be done in no time (and likely at little cost) then he needs to gain some respect for developers.

Anyhoo, I'd try to slap this together quickly using AppFuse (a JSF/Spring/Hibernate starter application). It uses Acegi Security for role management, Sitemesh for decorators (templates), and has documentation on how to integrate Lucene (a search engine). These technologies are very robust and allow for great application growth. If you have experience in enterprise Java, it should be straightforward.

Otherwise.. well, I'm not familar with the scriptlet community. I'm sure there are free PHP/etc scripts that you can try to mesh together. I'm just not sure how pretty it will be...

That sounds like a good solution and AppFuse rings a bell, but I come from the Perl/PHP MySQL direction and work on Apache servers. I don't have enough time to learn the other solution.

Does anybody have an idea?

The search engine I am using at the moment is ISearch. My budget is tight, but I can buy a couple of licenses. Just shouldn't have to spend a month learning how to save time.