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- Joomla is bloated, Drupal is minimal
- Drupal is easy to use and intuitive, Joomla is confusing
After test-driving them both I've came to these conclusions:
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Here are some statistics from CMS Matrix for a more detailed comparison. It shows that Drupal is extremely modular and Joomla has a heavy core, thus a terrible architecture. That means Joomla is hard to extend and messy under the hood. Drupal, on the other hand, looks beautiful
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No offense, but I've regretted Drupal every time. It's great for simple designs and simple websites, but as soon as things get a little bit custom, all heck breaks loose
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I suppose I should have said that Joomla! isn't the answer
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The problem with the module spaghetti code is the more you try to customize it- the more painful it gets: for upgrading, customizing output, and adding new options for input).
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But MODx outputs no default HTML. You have complete control
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Joomla and Drupal are both great for basic or niche (community for Drupal) sites. But if you want an easy to maintain CMS with kick-a$$ custom design, MODx is for you
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That's rather jumping to conclusions without backing it up, if you ask me. If you're talking about joomla 1.0.x, I agree, but Joomla 1.5 has a new object oriented framework, and is not messy at all. There are over 3000 extensions for Joomla, which proofs that it is in fact easy to extend.
What keeps surprising me about Drupal, is that they still stick to an outdated procedural programming style. PHP is moving more and more to OOP. Trying to force a programming style on a platform that's moving in a completely different direction is a weird choice to make -
There are two things that annoy me about drupal:
- The documentation, their writers assume to much of the reader. Its basically a RTFM manual.
- I find hooks very dirty. Iam a big supporter of OOP -
That said, the vast amount of plugable modules makes up for alot of its shortcomings
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Alan Dove said...
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personal site just moved from Drupal to Wordpress, and if you Google that comparison, you'll find there are legions of folks making similar migrations
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Charles Oertel said...
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Anybody struggling with Drupal just hasn't grokked it yet. When you hit the brick wall in Joomla, switch to Drupal
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You obviously haven't used Joomla recently
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Modules are free, Joomla community seems to want to make a buck. Can't even get developer copies with Joomla... can't test things out before you buy. Drupal, you just find what you want, plug it in, turn it on, and evaluate it against your needs
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There are tons of online tutorials, videos, examples and free code snippets... everyone wants to help in Drupal instead of trying to make a buck
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I found Joomla's 3-tiered content organization scheme (section/category/page) extremely limiting... and the fact that you can't set multiple categories to a content item kills it's usefulness as an advanced CMS for me
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Frederik Van ZandeIn modern Content Management System (CMS) world there are two major figures - Joomla (descendant of Mambo CMS ) and Drupal. They both are open source and have large comunities with enormous amounts of extensions and themes. It's hard to choose which one to use without trying them out. As usually, there are more options - home grown custom programming or even building your own CMS (which I was once stupid enough to do). Programming from scratch is always fun and beneficial for your skills, however, if you need things up and running in no time or you don't do (or don't want to do) any programming, using a CMS is the way to go.
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