drupal vs joomla

There is already a topic about Drupal VS Joomla.

I have looked at Joomla but decided to start with Drupal since it appears to have clean stable code which will not be affected because the core is staying relatively small. Furthermore, although I am not sure, when you want to begin a community/social network site Drupal is definitly the way to go since it is developed from the beginning for maintaining a social network.

Choose an out of the box Drupal installation, pick some nice modules that you need and you are ready to go.

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

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Joomla and Drupal are "just" PHP constructions. If you can do it in PHP, you can do it in Joomla as well as in Drupal.

If you want a site straight out of the box, up and running in a matter of hours, I would say that Joomla may have the edge. That is not due to Joomla or Drupal itself, but to the number of add-ons. The number of add-ons in Joomla is about double the number of Drupal add-ons. But numbers don't say everything. A good deal of the Joomla add-ons is rather silly: put a clock here or there, dozens of "picture galeries", a bunch of random quote add-ons etc. It's only my feeling, and I can't corroborate it, but I would say that Drupal add-ons are "more serious", less toys, more like tools for the site administrator.

I had a Joomla site for about one year. I started meddling with the core already after a couple of days. I have had a Drupal site for a couple of months now. I haven't even touched the core, apart from one minor bug correction.

Drupal's theming system is by far more flexible than Joomla's. In Joomla, I almost completely rewrote the all-essential Content component. In Drupal, I "simply" mess around with the .tpl files, which is a whole lot cleaner.

Joomla has nothing in the area of "multicategories". I wrote a couple of component and a bot to take care of that, and it more or less worked for my own situation, but it feels a lot more comfortable to be able to make use of Drupals native semantic multicategory system through its taxonomy.

Another problem in Joomla is its lack of a granular access system. If your site wants to distinguish to some degree among various user categories, there is only one solution: Drupal.

Drupal is supposed to be more difficult to learn. I wonder if that is true. I think both Joomla and Drupal require at least some basic knowledge of PHP in order to really tweak your site and in order to really do what you want. This has nothing to do with intrinsic difficulty, but with what you want. You can have a fairly decent site up and running in both systems in no time at all.

The bottom line? I dunno... If Joomla "does" your site, by all means do use Joomla. If you have the feeling you're running into a brick wall, give Drupal a shot. As long as you remember that both are "just" PHP constructions. There is no reason to adore the one and belittle the other. Both are very good and very widely used systems, which need to be studied if you want to get anything serious done. Both will need tweaking. For me, the conclusion happens to be Drupal, but I will gladly believe anyone who claims that Joomla does the trick for him.

Ludo

Joomla's a joke

For social networking site, go with Drupal as you will find dedicated programmers and developers, freely and helpful

Get friendly with these nice people :)

There is a group for `social networking site' at

http://groups.drupal.org

And mind if I add something:

If you dont want to spend anything apart from webhosting, then go with Drupal. Joomla has tricks that they want you to buy something here and there (themes, templates, modules)

You can do this with either one. To get a fair comparison you will have to install community builder to your Joomla install.

If you are a average coder then you may want to stick with Drupal as it is easier to work with. Joomla extension modification and building is OOP and a very advanced type of programming.

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