[joomla] php MySQL
Stephen Britton
steve at sbritton.com
Mon Aug 2 17:19:11 EDT 2010
If you use Joomla, you may not have to hire a programmer. There is a
good chance that a quiz program with your requirements has already
been developed.
I just checked the extension listings on Joomla.org and there are many
quiz programs.
Take a look.
http://extensions.joomla.org/search?q=quiz
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Chris TheEnd <chris at theendrecords.com> wrote:
> Joomla! could be a good place to start.
>
> However if you go the Joomla! route you could just extend another polls project and offer it back to the community.
>
> One consideration is if you go that route, hire someone familiar with Joomla! not just php.
>
>
> Chris
> On Aug 2, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Gene Desepoli wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> On 7/31/10 12:00 PM,
>> joomla-request at lists.nyphp.org wrote:
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:04 -0400
>>> From: Fred Sullivan<fred at avdrive.com>
>>> To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
>>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17
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>>> 2. Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Gary Mort)
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Fred Sullivan
>>> @fredjet
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:05:23 -0400
>>> From: Mark Simko<masimko at verizon.net>
>>> To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
>>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17
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>>>
>>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Message: 2
>>>> 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
>>>> Message-ID:
>>>> <AANLkTindy3JBPnjBdiOsF1y15zFYATnmq3D+1fQi+aor at mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:06:36 -0400
>>> From: Mitch Pirtle<mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>
>>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <AANLkTikbLmKXaJUz_EN6g6Ej8=zkYOrcWiQ=yxjCjcdB at mail.gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I still think that completely sucks though. :-)
>>>
>>> -- Mitch
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 4
>>> 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
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <AANLkTikztFnSpWH2O_pOf=GPr_BPRV=UEyw7DjX6vdtV at mail.gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mark Simko<masimko at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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]
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> All in all.... I have a real appreciation for the power of Drupal....but I
>>> still prefer Joomla.
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>>
>>
>> On 7/31/10 12:00 PM,
>> joomla-request at lists.nyphp.org wrote:
>>> Send joomla mailing list submissions to
>>> joomla at lists.nyphp.org
>>>
>>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
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>>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
>>> joomla-request at lists.nyphp.org
>>>
>>> You can reach the person managing the list at
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>>>
>>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
>>> than "Re: Contents of joomla digest..."
>>>
>>>
>>> Today's Topics:
>>>
>>> 1. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Fred Sullivan)
>>> 2. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Mark Simko)
>>> 3. Re: Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Mitch Pirtle)
>>> 4. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Gary Mort)
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:04 -0400
>>> From: Fred Sullivan<fred at avdrive.com>
>>> To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
>>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <AANLkTi=fpH+__6SHpF1ZEEHkNizs3ZmuTf-jhwWdxfDd at mail.gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> 2. Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Gary Mort)
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Fred Sullivan
>>> @fredjet
>>> -------------- next part --------------
>>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
>>> URL:<http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20100730/3f536e2d/attachment-0001.html>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:05:23 -0400
>>> From: Mark Simko<masimko at verizon.net>
>>> To: joomla at lists.nyphp.org
>>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17
>>> Message-ID:<1280513123.6594.21.camel at jersey>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>>
>>>
>>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Message: 2
>>>> 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
>>>> Message-ID:
>>>> <AANLkTindy3JBPnjBdiOsF1y15zFYATnmq3D+1fQi+aor at mail.gmail.com>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:06:36 -0400
>>> From: Mitch Pirtle<mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>
>>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <AANLkTikbLmKXaJUz_EN6g6Ej8=zkYOrcWiQ=yxjCjcdB at mail.gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I still think that completely sucks though. :-)
>>>
>>> -- Mitch
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> Message: 4
>>> 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
>>> Message-ID:
>>> <AANLkTikztFnSpWH2O_pOf=GPr_BPRV=UEyw7DjX6vdtV at mail.gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mark Simko<masimko at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 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]
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> All in all.... I have a real appreciation for the power of Drupal....but I
>>> still prefer Joomla.
>>> -------------- next part --------------
>>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
>>> URL:<http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20100730/0a072956/attachment-0001.html>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla
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>>> **************************************
>>>
>>>
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