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[Shawn Fang]

Drupal 7 is the right way to do it, don't use OU Campus from Omni-Update,
I just did it for my college, 
You need 
feeds modules for content migration from old sites, 
views modules integrated with other modules for most db query, use directly
db_query as less as possible,
Apache solr for all search,
Boost, varnish, memche, apc for cache, performace,
gather and interpret your requirements into your architecture.
ldap, or shib sso for auth and authorization,

Hope this help,

Shawn

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   1. Re: drupal? (Edgar Reyes)
   2. Re: drupal? (Edgar Reyes)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:05:53 -0400
From: Edgar Reyes <ereyes at totalcreations.com>
To: 'NYPHP Talk' <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] drupal?
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Have not used drupal in a long time, but you may also look into MODX, I used
it a few times, very easy to implement and maintain. 

ER

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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 10:21 AM
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Subject: [nycphp-talk] drupal?

Anyone have anything pro or con to say about drupal?

We're considering migrating our college website (currently plone) to drupal
(another option is OU Campus from Omni-Update, but I don't expect that
product is particularly relevant (though I'm happy to hear any feedback on
it if anyone has any knowledge)).

    thanks so very much in advance for any feedback,
         ~c
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:40:29 -0400
From: Edgar Reyes <ereyes at totalcreations.com>
To: 'NYPHP Talk' <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] drupal?
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That's one of the reasons why I used MODX for those projects, after the
implementation was done, it was a simple interface for end users to edit /
maintain their information. 

ER

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Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] drupal?

On 07/18/2013 10:40 AM, Steve Manes wrote:
> On 7/18/13 10:21 AM, Charlie Derr wrote:
>> Anyone have anything pro or con to say about drupal?
>>
>> We're considering migrating our college website (currently plone) to
drupal (another option is OU Campus from
>> Omni-Update, but I don't expect that product is particularly relevant
(though I'm happy to hear any feedback on it if
>> anyone has any knowledge)).
>
> I've got pro and con opinions about Drupal but the cons are mostly 
> related to people using a CMS where a non-CMS choice probably would 
> have worked better.  I run, develop for or maintain about a dozen 
> Drupal sites and overall I've been happy with it.  But it's got a 
> steep and very rocky learning curve.
>
> I don't know how many Drupal developers hang out here but there are 
> active developer communities on drupal.org:
>
> https://groups.drupal.org/groups
>
> NYC group: https://groups.drupal.org/nyc
>
>

Thanks so very much for the very helpful response; I'll definitely check
into the resources you've pointed me towards.

One follow-up (about the steep and rocky learning curve) question:  Does
this entry barrier apply also to end users?  As far as I'm concerned, steep
and rocky learning curves are par for the course among those of us who do
development work, but if (after our initial work has mostly been completed)
the tasks of creating/editing content, and publishing/approval workflows
still require some minimal "expert" level of knowledge, that's likely to be
a show-stopper here.

     thanks again,
            ~c



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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:05:00 -0400
From: Steve Manes <smanes at magpie.com>
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Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] drupal?
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On 7/18/13 12:40 PM, Edgar Reyes wrote:
> That's one of the reasons why I used MODX for those projects, after 
> the implementation was done, it was a simple interface for end users 
> to edit / maintain their information.

Once you get familiar with Drupal's templating system, CCK, Views, third
party modules and the hook override architecture things like this are easy
to build for Drupal and are extremely flexible.

"Once you get familiar..." is easy to say though.




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