Drupal wins 2008 Best PHP Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing
For the third year in a row, Drupal has been nominated for a Packt Publishing Open Source CMS award. Packt Publishing is announcing winners all week. Today they announced the 2008 best PHP open source CMS.
cabinsplusmore posted this at 01:32 — 31st October 2008.
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I was considering Drupal CMS or Mambo CMS. Is there something specific that one does over the other?
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decibel.places posted this at 04:23 — 31st October 2008.
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Drupal and Mambo started out about the same time.
The best Mambo developers adapted the codebase into Joomla (some would say "stole" the codebase....)(so there is a matter of karma)
I do not know anybody beginning a project with Mambo these days.
Drupal has a very active and supportive user and developer community.
This forum site is run on Drupal.
I was hired for a feasibility study to compare Joomla and Drupal. I concluded that many publishers prefer Joomla because it is what they are faniliar with, and the admin is a bit more streamlined. However, many developers prefer Drupal because it generates cleaner faster code, and is more fine-grained in its permissions and elsewhere (which makes admin more complex, but also more powerful). In addition, nearly all plug-in modules for Drupal are free to use, but many Joomla extensions are "commercial" and cost $$$.
I also believe that Drupal is more secure, I have seen Joomla sites hacked, but not Drupal sites.
Personally, I use Drupal for about 85% of my projects.
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JeevesBond posted this at 12:13 — 31st October 2008.
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I believe Mambo is pretty much a dead project these days.
As for Drupal vs. Joomla: use them both and find which you prefer. Personally I prefer Drupal over Joomla, as Drupal's API is just beautiful and themeing is easier (and doesn't rely on tables).
Having said that, Joomla is improving all the time.
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