By enky on

for a full-fledged community site, Drupal suits better than
Typo3?

can anyone please compare Typo3 and Drupal with respect to
designing a community website?

thanks in advance,
enky.

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robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

I don't know enough about Typo3 to say how well it can do community websites, but Drupal is fantastic for building sites where lots of people are involved. I suggest you try them both out, and when you've been able to make a comparison, come here and tell us how you decided and why. I just know that I choose Drupal for all community site projects I'm involved in.

- Robert Douglass

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My Drupal book: Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and WordPress

clo75’s picture

clo75 commented

Before Drupal I was interested by Typo3. Typo 3 is a very powerful CMS, more than Drupal I think...

But I've tried alone to set up basic functions with Typo3 during several months and the learning curve is very high before doing anything... so if you don't have a team a of developper with you forget about mastering Typo3..;

Also take note that Typo3 needs a dedicaced server, it takes a lot of ressources. I've also got a lot of trouble trying to install Typo3 on a shared server.

However if you want to create a community website I think that Drupal is a very good choice, a respectable amount of power with more ease of use than Typo3.

nathandigriz’s picture

nathandigriz commented

I don't think that Typo3 takes anything more in the way of hosting than Drupal. I have install Typo3 a number of times as a comparison to Mambos installer. It works fine. If you don't know PHP Typo3 will let you do it anyway. Drupal you almost have to know some PHP to do a community site. Somethings need tweaking . There are about 1300 extensions to Typo3, all nicely versioned and catgorized. Even so there are more extension coming all the time. You can find just about evrything you need without waiting. Typo3 also seems to have unadvertised backwards compatibility for all extension back to 3.4/3.6 or so which is nice.

What I don't like about Typo3 is the extension installer. It's okay for downloading and installing but I have gotten spoiled and want to get my installs from a compressed file on my hard drive not some unknown server. The way Typo3 works I can't even look at the code until it has already hit my servers hard drive. Scary.

But I have ordered the Typo3 book along with the Mambo book as gifts to myself for the new year. Time to learn something new.