Would it be smart of me to move from PostNuke to Drupal? I'm looking for certain things in a CMS that PN has, with considerable modification, but I'm not sure about Drupal:
1. Personal Weblog. This is the basis for my site, so that friends and family can read about my happenings.
2. Gallery. I need a good gallery for images and video. Something along the lines of Gallery, or even Coppermine.
3. Categories. I need the ability to categorize BOTH weblog entries and gallery images, preferably integrating the two. (Currently, there are no PN modules that have this ability.)
4. Reviews. I'm looking for a module that I can place my personal movie review into. I want one that also displays the highest rated movies and the lowest rated movies in a list. (Something else than PN modules do not currently offer.)
5. Stories. I would like to display many short stories that I have written in a separate section on my site.
6. Weather. I would like to display my local weather information on my site.
Can Drupal do any or all of these things?
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One more request...
Almost forgot. In my personal weblogs, I would like the ability to restrict certain groups from reading part of the entries (i.e., extended text). That way, I can place more personal information in that area and only my closest friends would have access to it. Is that possible with Drupal?
Not with stock Drupal
I'd say. But if you are familiar with php it should be easy to build a custom module or modify an existing one.
The change should be easy.
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Hi!
I will attempt to answer your questions below, starting with the one you made last about blocking extended text.
Hiding extended text is something the site theme can handle. I have implemented such a feature at www.humourauthority.com, which is based on Drupal. Have a look. If this is what you need, this can easily be done with Drupal with about 10 lines of code (if that much).
As for your other questions:
1) Personal weblog
Indeed. This is one of Drupal's many strengths.
2) Gallery
Drupal has a contributed module called image.module which will allo you to do this. I have no experience with it though.
3) Categories
Drupal uses taxonomy for this. Drupal's taxonomy is very powerful, and I am sure you will be satisfied with this feature.
4) Reviews
There is a review.module in the contributions repository, however, I've never used it, except to check whether it works. You might need to adapt it for your own purposes, as I am not sure whether it allows for ratings.
5) Stories
Drupal's built-in story.module will handle this for you. Easy as pie.
6) Weather
Depending on the source of your weather. If your weather is obtained through RSS feeds, Drupal's import module will handle this for you. If it is text you enter yourself, you can create a story or a block for this purpose. One way or another Drupal will be able to handle this for you.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Kobus
Hi, we're also considering a
Hi, we're also considering a move to Drupal from PostNuke. Could you answer our questions? We've been poking around the documentation but obviously haven't poked in the right place.
Our strong desire is to avoid coding in PHP. That's why we want a CMS to begin with: to avoid coding anything, as much as possible.
1. Menus
How exactly do you customize menus at the top of the screen? Must it be done by editing PHP files, or is there a UI / module for it?
2. News vs. static: Our test users get confused over the difference between news stories, contained in topics (in PostNuke) and static articles contained in sections. They click on something in news, and get extended text of that story instead of the static article they want. It's like there's a wall between these two ways of displaying information. How does Drupal handle this?
3. PostNuke has a good module for Web links. The admin can click a single button and PN will check all of the Web links to see if they still work. We don't see a Web link module for Drupal unless it's your "cloud" thing, and we can't actually find any examples of that.
4. How do you change the logo at the top of the page? And does Drupal still require all images to be PNG, no GIF or JPG?
Ooh, just one more...
5. A post in this thread mentioned the need to prevent a user from seeing extended text unless they had logged in. We need that too. Is that code posted somewhere and is it something mere mortals could splice into some file?
Thank you.
postnuke to drupal
fyi: i recently switched a site with a couple thousand stories/weblinks from postnuke to drupal.
1) if you use the xtemplate theme (the theme used by drupal), the links are added in via the admin menu through the gui.
3) you can see the weblinks option in action at kairosnews.org. it's much simpler than the postnuke weblinks module. and no it doesn't check all the links.
4) i haven't had any problems using gifs and jpgs.
Drupal better than PostNuke?
I've got a friend recommending PostNuke over Drupal, what's better about Drupal?
I haven't used either at this stage, as I can't get Drupal working.
Which is better
I think it depends on your application and intended user base. If your hosting to bunch of geeks PHP-Nuke is a good one since it already has a pretty large community of us (geeks). It installs with everything enabled and there are tons of modules and pluggins.
If your userbase is not very HTML literate, PHPWebsite is a good choice since it incorporates some special features when creating or editing content, i.e., bold, italic, hyperlinks, etc.
Postnuke seems a bit too new out of the stable to have everything you need but I suspect it will eventually be a major contender if Invision's Forum is any hint of things to come.
My vote right now is on Drupal for the sheer elegance of the Taxonomy module making categorization completely user defined. You define your Vocabularies and then start plugging in modules and adding nodes. Because of this - You dont see much functionality with a new install of Drupal - so 1st impression might be - where is all the stuff I need!
I just Installed and tested PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, PHPWebsite, and finally Drupal. I built a PHP-Nuke site for one client and they really like it and want another. They are developers and fall into that "geek" category I was talking about. They have no issues adding HTML to content.
I Installed and tested Postnuke in my own test environment and liked what I saw - I just didnt see enough.
PHPWebsite is really nice although a bit tougher to customize themes. I didnt like the page caching feature either and it seemed to slow down things, at least initially (80 backend DB requests to load up the cache for just a couple of page hits). I'm glad Drupal gives me more control over this. Categorization is a bit inflexible, though. Still stuck with Topics and Categories and Sections and the like.
Im saved Drupal for last because I had forgotten about it. It wasnt until I searched a bit more for CMS that I found it. I had looked at it for a document management system, years ago, and the client wanted to buy Intergraph for several mil, instead. Im using the lastest CVS version and it seems pretty stable. Of course, I dont have a lot of users or nodes so I cant say what it will do under load.
Im testing Drupal for use as a client Intranet right now and I think it is perfect for that. After all - Searching and FINDING content is what its all about. Drupal's Taxonomy feature makes designing it right the first time very easy. I really like the Admin features and the Documentation which is lacking in everything else I have looked at. I believe I can build this thing with Drupal and turn it over to their Admin without having to do much support after the fact.
adding html to phpwebsite pages
How do you add html to phpwebsite pages? Can you please explain if this is possible and the steps to do so.Thanks!
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1.) There are several possibilities. On most themes each module adds its own link at the top.
2.) I am afraid I don*t understand your question as I have never used *-Nuke.
3.) We have a weblink module in the contrib cvs. I do not know if it checks the links, but I am sure it could be extended to do this.
4.) The logo can be any filetype. You typically need to edit the theme to change the filename.
5.) As I said, this could be easily achieved.
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Yes, absolutely!
I just spent a week trying to rebuild two sites using PostNuke and eNvolution (a derivative of PN). IMHO that was an absolute waste of my time. If you want to build a site that's organized exactly like all the other PostNuke sites, it might be a good tool. Otherwise, don't bother. Trying to shoehorn your own sense of organization into that tool is hopelessly difficult. The documentation (for both PN and Envo) are either non-existant or poorly written.
I haven't yet published a site based on Drupal, but I'm MUCH farther along than I was with PN or Envolution. The design is obviously much cleaner and the documentation is very good.
Since you've already built a site using PN, you may have different criteria. For me, using Drupal is a no-brainer.
Can users create their own Databases?
This is such a useful thread! Thanks to everyone for your contributions.
I'm converting www.TBLN.org into a CMS portal. I'm considering Drupal, phpWebsite, and PostNuke.
What I want to do:
Allow users to create databases (much like yahoogroups "database" function)
Create a calendar sortable by location, date, keywords:
By date ("it's Saturday night and I want to be inspired. What talks could I go to?")
OR by keyword/subject area ("I'm doing my dissertation on Personal Financial Decisions and I really want to go to every event having to do with that")
OR by location (I'd like to know everything that's going on within a 10 mile radius of my house")...
or by all of the above.
Is that possible?
User journals like phpnuke has, where any user can share public or private entries.
Can Drupal do these things? If not, where do you suggest I look?
Thanks very much,
George
Triple Bottom Line Network
www.TBLN.org
transferring content
I want to switch from Postnuke to Drupal, but how easy is it to transfer my news archive, weblinks and members over?
postnuke..
postnuke site
dec 04 - 7500 unique visitors. 0.75 million page views. 13gb of data
boardogs.org.au
possible to convert to drupal? going to give the server less of a whipping if we do?
- Jeremy Dawes
drupal.org has 16000
drupal.org has 16000 registered visitors, 80 GB of data and more than 350k hits the last week. Don't know how slow it would be with some Nuke.
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