(Features) An open Acknowledgement of Joomla and Drupal

Features : An open Acknowledgement of Joomla and Drupal

With the upcoming releases of Drupal 5.0 and Joomla 1.5, both systems are poised to make a big leap forward. However those launches may not happen for several months and many companies need to make a decision now, balancing the pros-and-cons of both solutions.

After talking and developing answers for several clients, we decided to put all we'd written into one document to help other people with this decision. Some disclaimers before we start:

  • This is not an Drupal vs Joomla discussion, but an open acknowledgement that each choice is appropriate for different sites. Sometimes we have to tell clients that neither will work for what they want.

  • This is not a comprehensive list. Please feel free to tell us what we've missed or where we are wrong. Add your own thoughts via the link at the bottom of the form, or simply post a comment.

Joomla and Drupal

 

Joomla

Drupal
Community Features Community Builder. A solid component, but one that really needs an SEF extension to enable Youtube-style URLs. Very impressive. Users can form groups and expansion of the registraion form is native to Drupal.
Shopping Cart Joomla has Virtuemart and an integration of OSCommerce, both of which beat Drupal's ecommerce addon. Use OSCommerce if you need multicurrency options or if you have a payment gateway not supported by VM Not recommended as it lacks tax and currency options. However, watch out for Ubercart which looks promising.
SEO Poor out of the box. OpenSEF is OK and improving fast. SEF Advance is roughly comparable quality but costs 50 Euros. Code is not very well adapted for SEO. The out-of-the-box URLs work well and can be improved with one easy addon. The code is generally lightweight and well-optimised.
Forums Use Joomla with Simple Machines Forum, which is the path taken by Joomla.org. Joomlaboard integrates natively to Joomla but lacks many key features. A native and very smooth forum, but lacking in the high end features of the best modern forums. VbDrupal is the best way to avoid this (a Drupal Vbulletin hack)
Multimedia Yes, plenty of podcast and video options. Yes - Drupal Video and podcast options also available.
Photo Galleries Yes. The best are integrations with Gallery2 and the Flash gallery Expose. Has a default module and a Gallery2 integration.
Event Calendars
Several native plug-ins and integrations.
Not great. There are options but they are far behind those available for Joomla.

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