NYCPHP Meetup

[inforequest]

Hans C. Kaspersetz hans-at-cyberxdesigns.com |nyphp dev/internal group 
use| wrote:

> Halter, Shari wrote:
>
>>
>> Any suggestions? 
>> I am not familiar with Joomla, but I wonder how it would compare at the
>> front end?
>>   
>
>
> My group has been customizing and installing Joomla for a couple of 
> years.  It offers inline editing using a wysiwig.  It has it quirks 
> but works very well for our customers.  We usually write a small 
> manual that summarizes the full Joomla manual and covers just the 
> features the customer will be using.  And we customize the 
> administrative interface to remove access to the nasty bits the users 
> may not need.  Joomla does create some ugly URLS and the templating is 
> nav driven, so these can be headaches also.  You can access the same 
> piece of content through more then 1 URL even if that URL is not 
> defined in the navigation.  This can be a problem for some and needs 
> to be considered.  If you install Joomla, take some time to download 
> and read the manual.  It is very helpful.  Ahh!!!  One more thing.  1 
> piece of content can only be categorized into one Section/Category.  
> This can be a problem if a piece of content should truly be in 
> categorized in two places at once.   This can be handled creatively.
>
> I would strongly recommend avoiding contribute.   It is like an evil 
> pink Cool-Aide.  It scales very very poorly.   The template control 
> system is awful.  If you want to make a change to a main navigational 
> element through Contribute, it will download every page and make the 
> change.  The process of downloading, updating and uploading hundreds 
> or thousands of pages takes a long time and is failure prone.  Nothing 
> in contribute is database driven, it is purely file driven.  It is 
> nice for the first 10-25 pages of a site.  Beyond that and thing get 
> very difficult to manage.
>
> Just my $.02.
>
> Hans K


+2 on Hans review of Contribute.

Skip Joomla and go to ModX 0.9.5