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Question by Jeffery Smith: Should I use Drupal or Joomla for my web development needs?
I’m a beginning web developer who has years of experience working with Java and C++. I’ve learned some PHP and MySQL in the past few months, but am nowhere near an expert.
Recently I have come across WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. WordPress seems too focused on blogging, and none of my clients need blogs. Most of my clients just want basic websites that display information, but I have a few clients that need more complicated things like securely accepting payments, allowing people to register and securely log in to the website to upload their own photos, do advanced searching, and even do things like making basic online training classes. I want to use a CMS that makes it easy to crank out very nice looking websites, yet has more advanced features to do all kinds of things to make a robust and complex website.
How do Drupal and Joomla compare in terms of security and performance?
What would you recommend using, Drupal or Joomla?
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Answer by anil kumar
I have used joomla myself..and joomla have most the facility you listed in your question . have wide range of components, modules and plugins. and a larg community support. most of your requirement can be met by joomla i think. you can also give drupal a try.
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For eCommerce sites you will go with DRUPAL otherwise for simple and complicated sites you will go with WORDPRESS and JOOMLA both were fine for you.
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For simple websites, I find WordPress is the easiest to set up. WordPress is widely used as a CMS, and not just blogging software. There thousands of plugins to add in functionality, so I would definitely not take this off your list to consider. SEO tools, photo galleries, event managers… all of this can be easily integrated.
Joomla/Drupal are more powerful content management systems. Sometimes they can be complete overkill when all you need is pages to be able to edited by your client. Once you have the site site up, there is little learning curve for the client to log in and edit a page. Joomla/Drupal have more of a learning curve (for both user and developer)
Depending on each project spec, I would weigh the needed features and then choose an appropriate CMS. Joomla/Drupal may be the right way to go for some jobs, and WordPress will be sufficient in others.
If it was between Drupal and Joomla I’d go with Drupal every time. I’ve taken on contract jobs turning former Joomla sites into Drupal sites simply because some module in Joomla wasn’t working correctly. Being that you’re a programmer you may be able to manipulate or write your own modules to get something working the way you want, but if you want to use pre-existing modules I’d definitely go with Drupal as the community appears to be larger.
If you want to take payments with Drupal go grab a copy of Ubercart and some supporting modules depending on what you’re looking to do and you’re good to go. Last I checked on Joomla their payment processing scripts cost $ $ to get up and running, Ubercart is free. Then integrate with the credit card processor and you’re set.
For profiles and such there are additional modules on Drupal that will allow a user to upload pics, make up a bio, etc, etc…
A word of warning with Drupal 6 though, you have basically nothing when you start your site and have to either start writing scripts or go grab pre-written modules. Drupal 7 isn’t as bad but isn’t as supported either.
You can set up security options in Drupal fairly easy as well, and integrate it to operate with other services as well using one database.
As for performance, you’ll need a good host regardless of whether you choose Joomla or Drupal due to the number of MySQL database requests each time someone visits the page. You can start cacheing everything, but the server load is still a lot higher and can cause your site to go down if you’re using the wrong hosting company.
WordPress is the most popular but more limited. It’s primarily a blogging framework but can be converted to something else if you like. Joomla and Drupal are full featured CMSs. I think Joomla is more popular but Drupal still has a following. I would go with Joomla.