By La Mangra on
Hello !
I need Drupal, Joomla or Plone for the following projects
- people can start their own blogs
- user submitted galleries, you can see the images by categories or view them by author
- user groups with admins, groups will have their own forums, galleries and blogs
- events calendars
- classifieds
- jobs postings
- portal and groups portals
Also it has many functionalities, I don't expect too many users, while at the same time, it may grow to a very large number of people using it
1. Can you, please, advice me what shall I use?
The Drupal forum has too few functionalities, are there any alternatives to it while still using Drupal ?
2. Which CMS's extentions has more functionalities ?
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IMHO, you should test all three and use the one you prefer for to use for your project.
Drupal offers multi user blogs right out of the box and can be extended using contributed modules found in the download area.
Drupal forum module can be expanded using modules as well.
Do you know how they compare
Do you know how they compare ?
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demo them here: http://www.opensourcecms.com/
previous repsonses on the same question you are asking with regards to plone: http://drupal.org/node/13733
I'm sure using the search tool here on drupal.org you can find comparisons to Joomla as well.
Rough impressions
that are probably inaccurate and way out of date (ie you really need to try them yourself)
Joomla: quick to get started with. Easy to whack together a standard hierarchical site. Can sit beside other software pretty well but not really integrate with them. Very good for those without demanding requirements or those with very little time. Best if it doesn't need to be customised much.
Plone: built on top of Zope (written in Python). A well designed system that focuses on powerful publishing and workflow and does that stuff really well. Has really good integration with enterprise authorisation and authentication. But customising it will take some learning (especially if you need to dig down towards the Zope bits). Last time I looked, the initial hardware requirements were fairly steep, but it did scale OK after that once you had enough hardware to run it - ie (this is a simplification)it is a long running python server process rather than a PHP script that starts up from scratch for each request. Forget about using cheap shared hosting.
Drupal: main strength is community sites. Very flexible and customisable, and can be used for just about any kind of site. Out of the box will appear like a blog style news site, but isn't limited to that. Has many different ways of doing things, and that choice can be scary to some newcomers. It is more like a kit where you assemble many small components the way you want rather than a adding one or two large ones.
All three have very active communities and aren't going away any time soon - in fact anyone looking for an open source CMS shouldn't really need to look past those three systems (unless they just need a blog of course).
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Anton
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Forum alternative
Yes, check out the UIE Forum module. It's been ported to 5.x for awhile now. From my experiences with it on my 5.x sites, it works very well and is probably what you're looking for (when you think of a forum).
Thank you all ! I also
Thank you all !
I also talked about it on the Joomla forums, I got impression that some of these things can't be done with the Joomla at all or can be done not so good
I think I'll choose Drupal
I also have two other options - commercial CMS - Subdreamer and ExpressionEngine
Do you know anything about them ?