By gvanhoof on

Hi,

I am new to Drupal and looking at a CMS to build an online community (inc. blog, forums, job posts, resources, etc.). I have currently installed Drupal 6.4 but going through some forum discussion, I understand that some popular modules are only compatible with Drupal 5.

Assuming that our developers have little / no previous experience with Drupal, my questions are:

1) Would you advise to go ahead with Drupal 5 or Drupal 6? And why?
2) Does it really matter?
3) If it does, what are the other factors that should influence the decision?

Thanks for your help.

Greg

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johnhanley’s picture

johnhanley commented

Hi Greg,

First off, welcome to Drupal. :-)

This question has already been asked lots of times and you might want to seek out some of those discussions for further perspective.

That said, here's a quick answer to your inquiry.

From a development perspective (i.e. learning Drupal API and methodologies from scratch) you might as well dive into 6. From a site admin perspective, the answer depends on your needs. Your timing is very good as many of the major contributed modules that so many people rely on (i.e. CCK, Views, Organic Groups, etc.) are nearing full release for 6. On the other hand there's a ton of niche and specialty modules written for 5 that still aren't available for 6.

My suggestion would be to identify your project functional requirements and then peruse the contributed module list for each version. Unless you're doing something highly customized, I suspect you'll be better off with 6.

Good luck!

John

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kwemart commented

To choose your cms you have to know what you need for your website.

you have to know modules you will need to build your web. find them and see witch version will be usefull for you...

all the best

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dnaromance commented

Hi,

I would say it's always depends.

But for developer perspective, I would rather choose Drupal 6 for testing purpose and Drupal 5 for production.

And again, you can research and figure out what are those modules that you need, and find it whether available on Drupal 6, if those you needed are available at Drupal 5, then what's the point you're still on Drupal 6, right?

Think about it. If you're just want blog, forum, I can tell you those are core modules, it means come with drupal core.

BUT as you stated if you want JOB POSTS, then for me I'll go for drupal 5, as I found "Job search" module on D5 :)

Best regards,
kailoon

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bwv commented

I am not familiar with the job search module, but, for the record and in the spirit of helping the OP make as informed a choice as possible, it should be noted that one can, using CCK and Views, can quite easily configure a job content type for 6.x and search against it.
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deleuje commented

I just installed the jobsearch module and I can concur that it doesn't offer more than custom CCK types with a node access setup could.

For the Drupal 5/6 choice though, I find myself at times having to pick Drupal 5, in order to use modules such as privatemsg :(

By the way, even thought the module may not be revolutionary, the module project page itself was helpful to bring ideas together. I am glad for that.

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lord_of_the_ring commented

hi

is your site still on WP or you have migrated to drupal

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deleuje commented

I sold it :)