Hmmm. On 10/12/09 19:59, [email protected] wrote: >>>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Fulton<[email protected]> writes: > > Aaron> What about Drupal + CiviCRM? I do some work for an > Aaron> organisation that runs their membership via CiviCRM. > > I think you wouldn't need Drupal in that case. > > It all depends on the features.
I'm pretty sure you need either Drupal or Joomla as the base for CiviCRM. That said, I think that CiviCRM is an excellent product for its target market... but in most cases I suspect it's overkill and or a poor fit for purpose. I also recommend that a developer looking at integrating it consider the long-term maintainability of introducing another sizable codebase (at least as complex as Drupal itself) that's not - as I understand it - particularly Drupalesque, and is on its own release cycle, and has a largely independent dev community (Hi Pete! *waves*). Because CiviCRM has to function in Joomla as well, it seems likely to require major compromise in both systems, because it'll be re-implementing things - that each host system already does natively - in order to be platform agnostic. Plus it uses Smartie templating, which is not a very good fit with Drupal theming. Perhaps someone who knows more about CiviCRM can correct me if I'm wrong about any of this. Drupal with CCK/Views + Rules/Flags/Messaging/Notifications and a few other modules offers huge flexibility, and might be a better, more maintainable solution in many cases, particularly for developers who know Drupal. Cheers, Dave -- Dave Lane, Egressive Ltd [email protected] m +64212298147 p +6439633733 http://egressive.com Free/OpenSourceSoftware: because to share is human Only use Open Standards - w3.org, Drupal powers communities - drupal.org Effusion Group http://effusiongroup.com Software Patents kill innovation -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
