Gary, are you making these comparisons with Joomla 1.5 or 1.6?
Elin went over some of the changes in 1.6 at our last meeting, and will be
going over some more features next month.
1.6 is now Beta 3.
1.7 will be out 6 months after 1.6.
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From: Gary Mort <[email protected]>
To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, June 22, 2010 12:15:25 PM
Subject: [joomla] Drupal first impression
Ok, so I have to use Drupal on a project[it just makes sense with 6 domains
already in Drupal to use Drupal and not Joomla for another 3].
On the impressive side, Drupal makes multi-site EASY. Out of the box it
assumes you might want to run multiple domains and has a directory structure
setup to accomodate this. Everything gets installed to the /sites/all
directory, and if you want something installed for one host only, you create a
new directory, sites/mydomain.com and put it in there.
With the addition of the Domains module, you can classify virtual anything form
content to products in the online store as to which domain they should be
displayed on[or all domains!].
With a simple configuration change, you can set your cookies to a root domain,
so one.mydomain.com and two.mydomain.com will both save and access cookies for
.mydomain.com [so within a single set of subdomains, you have single sign on].
And with another simple config change you can specify specific mysql tables as
being shared between domains, or unique to one domain.
All in all, an impressive set of features.
Now the downside: this is not Joomla. Installation of modules and themes
includes a number of manual steps. A lot of things are 80-90% done but you
need to do a few final tweaks.
In order of ease of use by the end user, I'd say you have WordPress --> Joomla
--> Drupal
In order of ease of customization by someone without a lot of technical
knowhow, Wordpress --> Joomla --> Drupal
In order of complex bits of functionality[online store, special modules, etc]
I'd say it's Joomla --> Drupal -- > Wordpress
In order of extremely complex customizations available, it is Drupal --> Joomla
--> Wordpress
In order of having sane database layouts and extensibility, it is clearly
Drupal --> Joomla --> Wordpress
In short, each CMS has different types of people it can appeal to, and
different circumstances where it really really shines.
I think that from a 3rd party point of view, there is a lot that could be
swiped from Drupal and Wordpress and brought to Joomla. For example, the whole
content editing process, I'd say a nice management template, outside the normal
admin structure, and a couple of components to ease asset management, could be
created for Joomla that mimics the way Wordpress looks and feels to make life
easier for the end user. And at the other end of the extreme, some of the nice
complex functions Drupal has could be redone to make them work for Joomla,
assuming one is willing to bypass using some core functions[ie install a new
search, installation, and template manager and disable the core ones to enable
the multi-site functionality that comes with Drupal].
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