What is the difference between Joomla and Drupal?
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Mambo(Joomla):
The user and administrative interface for Mambo(Joomla) was
one of the best-designed options on our shortlist. We were
also interested to note the emergence of Soapbox, a
Mambo(Joomla) toolset geared towards the nonprofit
community. The Soapbox toolset is however limited (at this
point) to integration with the Democracy in Action CRM, and
to single sign-on among sites. The information architecture
of Mambo(Joomla) itself proved incompatible with the
telecentre.org project, since it is structured around
categorization (rather than tagging), which in practice
imposes such limitations as precluding multiple
categorization of inbound RSS feeds. Since much of the
telecentre.org network’s content will need to be distributed
to multiple categories (e.g. a story on a Bolivian wifi
project needs to be tagged “wifi” and “Latin America”), the
categorization structure was a deal-breaker.
Drupal:
With a fast-growing user base in the non-profit sector,
Drupal’s strong online community focus made it an appealing
prospect. Most importantly, Drupal was alone among all CMS
options in its compatibility with a distributed network
approach. The platform is essentially built for exactly this
kind of approach: it supports ubiquitous outbound RSS feeds,
complex aggregation of inbound feeds, per-feed or per-item
non-exclusive tagging, and native support for blogging.
Compared to the other options, which are virtually all CMS
platforms that have developed distributed community
features, Drupal is innately oriented towards community
networking and distributed content creation. The following
outlines how we anticipate using particular features of the
Drupal platform to support core elements of the
telecentre.org web strategy.
A great place to start is OpenSourceCMS, a site with user
reviews of pretty much all the major players in the CMS
space. What sets them apart is that they also provide live
demos of each CMS they cover. You can actually log in to the
front end or the back end of each one, reconfigure it, and
make changes to your heart’s content. Every two hours they
“reboot” and put everything back to a fresh install. It’s a
great way to experiment without having to go through all the
time and hassle of installing each system yourself.
Installing Drupal and Joomla on my host
In addition to testing each platform on OpenSourceCMS, I
also wanted to install them myself to gauge how easy they
would be to work with. Fortunately my hosting provider, Host
Gator, uses a product called Fantastico which makes
installing Drupal and Joomla as simple as a few mouse
clicks. Both installed successfully with minimal effort.
Purists abhor Fantastico, but for my purposes, it was a
quick and easy way to get up and running quickly to be able
to start kicking the tires of each product.
Installing Drupal and Joomla locally
As I’ll need a test environment before long, installing both
products on my local machine is a good idea as well. Before
I can do so, though, I need to install the LAMP (or WAMP)
stack commonly used by Open Source software. LAMP enables my
desktop to act like a web server, so that I can run
everything from my local machine just as if it were running
on my host.
For the curious, LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL PHP, and
they are the four products that make up the foundation that
Drupal, Joomla, and countless other products use. WAMP is
essentially the same thing, but uses Windows as the
operating system. Each product offers its own installer, and
I got WAMP working on my local machine in no time.
The local installations of Drupal and Joomla were a bit more
involved. I had to understand how to setup MySQL databases,
and know the right answers to a number of questions,
although the wizards that each product offered were pretty
good. A complete novice would probably be overwhelmed, but I
found it pretty much a snap to get both going quickly.
Use Mambo(Joomla) when:
* you don't know about the tech stuff at all
* you want easy install & setup with your mouse
* you don't want to learn the tool you're using
* you don't need to integrate other scripts etc. to your site
* you want a candy site and don't mind several other sites
using the same template(s)
* you don't need SEO out of the box
* you don't care about server resources
* you're running (or planning to to run) only one or max a
couple of sites
* you don't need one log-in to several sites
* you don't need user groups & permissions
* you don't run membership site(s)
Use Drupal when:
* you want a rock solid & high quality platform for your sites
* you want or need a real multi-site-feature (only one
installation for several sites)
* you need any kind of user groups & user permissions
* you need to run also membership- and community sites, not
only CMS etc
* you want a Powerful templating system
* you're ready to invest a bit of your time in order to
realize all the huge possibilities of Drupal
* you understand the meaning of clear, high quality code and
API (easy to integrate with other solutions etc)
* you want flexibility and don't like limitations
A number of Major Advantages of Drupal over Mambo(Joomla)
With Drupal, you can set up several sites with only one
installation ...think about that, when you have tens of
sites and security holes are found almost daily! ...what
about then, when you quickly need to uppdate some additional
components / modules / themes... you actually face a lot of
work in Mambo(Joomla) - in Drupal you do it only once.
With Drupal, you can (if you want to) use the same
log-in-details for different sites... in some cases it opens
quite interesting possibilities.
Drupal has also SEO-friendly URL's out of the box... for
Mambo(Joomla), you need to buy a commercial component from a
core developer or use labor-intensive free ones.
Someone mentioned, that Drupal is focused on communities...
you're right... however, it does not mean, you can't use
Drupal for content sites. Actually, Drupal is a great choise
also for content sites. I can't imagine Mambo(Joomla) as a
natural community building system, though.
When talking about user profiles and permissions to
different parts of the site, Mambo(Joomla) is actually a
joke... on the other hand, Drupal is the opposite... it's so
easy to set up and fine tune different user-roles and give
them some permisssions
some main differences are
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1. Drupal use smarty template where as on the other hand
Joomla dose not
2. Joomla uses plugin and modules whereas Drupl has module only
3. In drupal php code can be written directly whereas in
Joomla you need to install plugin for php support
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