Drupal

[abinidi]

Hi fellow TCH-ers! I've been looking for a CMS, and I recently came across Drupal (http://www.drupal.org). Drupal is an open-source product with tons of moduls/add-ins etc.

 

I'm wondering if anybody in the family has heard of Drupal (or even better, is using Drupal), so I can get some feedback before I atttempt my first ever custom script installation.

 

First, how easy is it to install. I have no experience with script installation

 

Second, how easy is it to use? Will my grandma be able to use it to read family newsletters and view pictures?

 

Finally, any words of warning?

 

Thanks, friends...

[TCH-Don]

Paul,

I have tried it and like it better than any other cms.

 

If you need help installing look here.

[abinidi]

Thanks. I added a comment to that thread, because the recent installation of Drupal has a file in a different folder.

 

I guess next time I ought to SEARCH the forums before I ask a question...

[TCH-Don]

Thanks for the update

 

be sure to keep install notes in anotebook

this will help in the next script install.

[borfast]

Hi Paul.

 

As I said in the other thread where you posted about Drupal, it is the only CMS that almost convinced me to use it. I think it could be improved a lot but, depending on what you want to do with it, it's probably the best choice, right now.

 

The Mambo folks are also going to release a new 5.0 version soon (or so I hope), which will have the big missing piece in Mambo - Access Control Lists. The possibility of creating, edit and remove user groups and assign them roles and privilieges is something that I can't imagine a CMS without. When they implement that, I don't know if I won't change my mind about Drupal and Mambo... I just LOVE that admin interface

 

On the other hand, Drupal is technically superior (better code) and although I still haven't tried to write modules for either of the two systems, I believe Drupal is a bit easier to use on that front. The same goes for templates.

 

Both of them are really simple to use - and it also depends on the structure you create for your site, of course. At the administration level, I prefer Mambo's admin panel. It's just... beautiful Although I think it gets a little confusing dealing with modules, components and mambots. Drupal only has modules. Period. Simple, huh?

[Patricia]

Hi abinidi, i quite enjoy Drupal, and used it for a while but then i saw a cms called CPG-Nuke, aka Dragonfly. It is a complete redo of Php-nuke, so much so that you could barely see the similarities.. It is also fully XHTML, CSS and HTML compliant, and is only 2 megs without extra modules and very secure.. that's the one i'd suggest, but Drupal is about as good as it gets as well

 

http://www.dragonflycms.com

 

 

Patricia