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[Gene Desepoli]

Hi
I am considering hiring someone to develop an extensive online quiz 
program with php/MySQL.  I am not sure if it would be a good idea to use 
Joomla as the website for this application or if I should leave it up to 
the developer to create a new website.

Are there any considerations I shoudl be aware of if using Joomla?

Thanks
Gene

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> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:04 -0400
> From: Fred Sullivan<fred at avdrive.com>
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> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17
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> 2. Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Gary Mort)
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> Amazing post, Thank You! I went to one day of the Drupal Camp NYC 2010 to
> learn and observe. In the days before the camp installed local version and
> created a test site. It had been a while since I had done that with Drupal.
> > From an integrators perspective it is mature and elegant in it's coding,
> documentation and user community a much higher percentage of the attendees
> where actual coders/developers than at a equivalent Joomla event. But
> compared to Joomla as far as getting up a basic site to do many things it
> was much more time consuming and involved and takes a much higher technical
> proficiency. It is reflected in the book shelf at say Barnes and Noble
> almost all Drupal books are for developers, almost all Joomla books are end
> designer and users manuals.
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> Joomla's object oriented approach is much more advanced and abstract and
> has  been much more and it has been set up to be more designer and user
> friendly thus there are more users less community. Drupal much more on basic
> level programmer friendly for a beginning to average programmer. Joomla as
> percentage has in number fewer coders and developers that participate in the
> community but the ones that do are very advanced. The Joomla community needs
> to work much harder at Joomla developer training of beginning and mid level
> programmers to flourish. Drupal needs to work much harder at getting a
> friendlier interface for designers and users probably by including more in
> their core to grow their end user community.
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> Fred Sullivan
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> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website?
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>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:21:59 -0400
>> From: Gary Mort<garyamort at gmail.com>
>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
>> Subject: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective
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> From: Mitch Pirtle<mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>
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> To be fair, the whole "not invented here" syndrome is prevalent in the
> web development world overall, and plagues a great many more projects
> than just Joomla.
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> I still think that completely sucks though. :-)
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> -- Mitch
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> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:25:46 -0400
> From: Gary Mort<garyamort at gmail.com>
> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17
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> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mark Simko<masimko at verizon.net>  wrote:
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>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website?
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> I really want to clean it up a bit before posting it far and wide. :-)
>
> But I've been sitting on my thoughts for about a week and a half now after
> doing a bunch of custom coding to get Ubercart to work the way I wanted it
> to.  One thing I found nice was that it was a HECK of a lot easier than
> Virtuemart to customize...and a LOT more nicely integrated than Magento[in
> fact, we are currently using Magento and it completely sucks]
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> So I figured I'd let em out in case others had their own input on Drupal vs
> Joomla....  terminology is a real b......i....t......c.......you know what.
>   Since both Drupal and Joomla have "modules" but they do completely
> different things.  Plugins in Joomla are self-documenting to an extent,
> while hooks in drupal you need to lookup.  The Joomla extensions directory,
> for all my complaints, really shines while Drupal's you have to know what
> your looking for more clearly.
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> All in all.... I have a real appreciation for the power of Drupal....but I
> still prefer Joomla.
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