Joomla vs Drupal

[dd1313]

Hi Guys

Which one would you prefer.?

Thanks
DD.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Symfony if your a real developer

 

[T3ROR]

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[aadil-old]

joomla, but the only problem is it tends to get hacked more than other apps

 

[theStudent]

Joomla... greatest thing since sliced bread

So easy to make a pimp'd site where you can set access for others to edit.

I have weather reports, market reports, a daily cartoon and much more.... and all with no intervention from me... all updates on its own.

When bored... a click of the button and site template change gives a complete new look with no effort!

LDAP integration if you have an AD is also great especially if you have forums and people can login with AD credentials to contribute or have their say.

... I could go on forever

 

[edg3]

Hi Guys

Which one would you prefer.?

Thanks
DD.

I used to use Drupal on my site, and I was quite happy with it. Ive seen many people have issues with things like spam and customising, but once you get used to it its quite nice.

If you plan to use Drupal get a module called "captcha" which you can use to add image verification on to things like registrations and posting. Another usefull thing in Drupal is called views, which allow you to basically create lists of your content to show in page or block form, which is especially useful when you create your own content types and need to list pages/posts/etc you have created of those types.

I havent used Joomla as much yet, but from what I have done with it it seems quite friendly. The Admin panel is a bit difficult to work with to begin with but it shouldnt take long to get comfortable using it.

I really think you should get a local web server running and try both of these before deciding. The web server I currently use on windows is Wos Portable (now MoWeS) which you can use to bundle all sorts of packages together (apache, mysl, phpmyadmin, etc) to test things and for all my web development.

All that you will need as the bare minimum is Apache and Mysql and PHP packages: Create a Wos package
I would just recommend using phpmyadmin aswell as it makes managing mysql users and databases much easier.

It all comes down to what you are using it for or what to use it for. Id back either of them.

 

[charles's birthday card]

Drupal by several urban kilometres.

 

[Fern9do]

Joomla. Lots of free tepmlates which are easy to customize(If you have html and css knowlege). Easy to manage. Lots of Components, modules and plug ins. Great for building a community site. Noob friendly admin panel. Great forum with lots of help.
But i havnt tried drupal yet so cant say which one is better.

 

[ufis]

Both are equally useful and good.

Right now joomla has fairly big security holes with more being found fairly regularly.

So for security reasons, right now, I would go for drupal.
Once they fix their bugs I'd rather use joomla. But that is for the same reason that I prefer to wear a black shirt and you prefer to wear a red one.

 

[FarligOpptreden]

What if I like wearing black and red shirts on alternate days?

 

[koffiejunkie]

I don't like either, but then I'm a sysadmin, not a dev. But I'd say Drupal if you care about security. For every drupal site I get that's compromised, I get about 50 Joomla and/or Mambo sites.

 

[icyrus]

Drupal, easily.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Man you ppl are so narrow minded.....

DotNetNuke is the absolute killer.. puts all the others to shame

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Man you ppl are so narrow minded.....

DotNetNuke is the absolute killer.. puts all the others to shame

QFT QFT QFT QFT!!!

 

[malec]

Drupal by several urban kilometres.

Agreed, it has a steep learning curve, but once you got it down it really is incredibly powerful. I used to develop all my sites from scratch using CakePHP. One you use a modular system like Drupal there really is no going back ...