Wednesday, March 14, 2012

What is the difference between Joomla and Drupal?

Jomla and Drupal both are Big CMS applications in PHP. Drupal users and developers love drupal CMS and Joomla users and developers love Joomla CMS but there is a lot of difference coming to database part or front end architecture admin side interface many things are different i like both Drupal and Joomla

Please find below some differences


Joomla vs Drupal


1.Joomla supports one section/category creating an article, while you can assign Drupal contents to several Sections/Categories.

2.Drupal is more flexible when it comes to the development and integrating theme and layout of the website. Joomla! is known offers less compare to drupal.

3.Joomla is very easy for non-technical users but not in drupal case

4.Administration functionality with the Drupal is not good and quite difficult, while Joomla! its really easy and limited functionality small websites with limited functionality its really good.

5.In drupal every user can login with same interface but in joomla have some difference

6.The Drupal codes are more professional and secure and of a quality, while it lacks in the case of Joomla!.

7.SEO is very impotent for every website especially in CMS web applications in drupal very good for Search Engine Friendly URLS its free component and its very flexible while in Joomla development not that much flexible and its having component but that is for commercial

Terminology Joomla vs Drupal

1. Joomla "Template" is called "Theme" in Drupal.
2. Component = Module.
3. Module = Block.
4. Mambot/Plugin = Input filter.
5. Menu-Horizontal = Primary Links
6. Menu-Vertical = Navigation
7. Dynamic Content Item = Story
8. Static Content = Page
9. Back-end = there is no back-end in Drupal, but modules like Administration Menu that provide a similar interface.
10. SEF = Clean URLs (but some docs refer to SEF, too).
11. Section = Taxonomy Vocabulary/Term
12. Section Title = Taxonomy Term (master)
13. Category = Taxonomy Term (child)
14. Introtext = Teaser
15. Maintext = Body (see explanation below)
16. Pathway = Breadcrumb

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