[OpenLayers-Users] OpenLayers UI Library/CMS?

[Arnie Shore]

Folks, in planning to move our (mostly!) Open Source dispatch 
application (Tickets CAD by name) to OpenLayers (thanks to all here who 
have replied to this noob's questions) I'm considering an alternative to 
our Plan A, this plan consisting of a largely one-for-one replacement of 
each of the existing low-level GMaps API function calls.

Our alternative approach, Plan B, wd make use of any popular server-side 
CMS or client-side UI libraries that can provide the target OSM/OL 
capabilities, along with the second tall-pole-in-our-tent, a data-grid 
capability.  JQuery and Drupal come to mind here.

The target implementation wd be made available in two flavors, the first 
providing for access to an OSM repository. The second - more oriented to 
emergency operations sans Internet availability - wd include 
locally-stored tile sets for the areas of user interest.

The application is oriented to meeting data handling needs, rather than 
to cartographic requirements.  Our existing application's capabilities 
are generally satisfactory, but there's a lot of PHP ad JS that I'd 
expect to replace with whatever Plan B provides out-of-the-box.  Data 
handling requirements so far are modest; tables of several hundred entries.

The other givens are free, some Open Source license, PHP, and a minimal 
number of dependencies.  I've done enough preliminary work with a TMS 
directory structure to satisfy myself that a geo-server (for the 
non-Internet implementation) wd add un-needed complexity, and I'm ruling 
that out.

So, any suggestions, URL's, caveats, experiences, etc. re likely 
candidates are solicited.

Thanks again, all.  The help you've provided in the past is gratefully 
acknowledged.