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Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
June 12, 2008, 03:51:49 pm

For all those Joomla users that wish they had Drupal to take advantage of the (slightly) better Drupal-CiviCRM integration:

http://drupal.org/project/joomla

This Drupal module automates some of the migration.

NOTE: I am in no way bashing Joomla. Joomla, Plone and Drupal all are perfectly good content management systems. You're in good shape with whichever you pick (though plone doesn't integrate with CiviCRM!).  ;)
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Re: Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
June 23, 2008, 04:58:38 pm
Just as a matter of interest - has anyone gone down this route?

SourceForge indicates slightly more Joomla vs Drupal downloads however pingbacks show a far greater number of Drupal installs. Any Joomla admins out there who can shed some light?

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Re: Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
July 20, 2008, 02:14:32 am
I can't really imaging doing this.

I would expect that the new drupal site would be civicrm site2 and one would spend a month or two getting it so everyone is happy with it and then, putting it live leaving the joomla site configured as a legacy for the inevitable time two years down the road when the client wants to move back to joomla (remember this is sort of by definition someone that is prone to changing direction mid stream, and not real clear about their tech direction.)

Cool trick though.

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Re: Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
September 13, 2008, 02:07:51 am
I did go down the joomla route first of all (all the web sites I work on are Joomla) because I thought that my Joomla knowledge would make it easy - However, I spent a long time trying to get CiviCRM to work well at an installation and I still found it slightly frustatrating.

However I don't think the problem was CiviCRM - I think it is the way that everything is really configured to work at the admin end of Joomla and users don't like the admin area in Joomla especially if CiviCRM is the only component they are interested in.

Then, I had a spare day so I tried installing CiviCRM on top of Drupal. What a difference! - the compatibility with Drupal is excellent and if you really want to use CiviCRM as an internal system then this is undoubtablly the way to go.

I personally would only recommend using Joomla with CiviCRM if you just want to do something like an event registration. Otherwise it is more time effective to learn Drupal than trying to get Civi working with Joomla.



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Re: Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
November 10, 2008, 08:24:14 am
Thanks for the resource.  We are thinking about moving from Joomla to Drupal one of the sites we manage.  Thanks.

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Re: Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
December 04, 2008, 05:08:35 pm
When I was looking at various content management systems for my group, I initially considered Joomla - mostly because it came recommended and the website is very organized and easy to navigate. However, after installing and working with Joomla it was so odd that I looked at others. I tried four other CMS then decided to stick with Drupal as it is the easiest and most user-friendly that I've seen thus far. I also really love how much simpler CiviCRM is with Drupal over Joomla.


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Re: Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
December 05, 2008, 04:50:48 pm
Our main issue with CiviCRM on Joomla! is the way that CiviCRM still requires giving people Joomla! administrator access to be able to do organisation tasks within CiviCRM.  This is really bad because you are likely to want to let a range of people use your CiviCRM database that you don't want changing your website content!

Consequently, we develop most of our websites on Joomla! and then use the CiviCRM API to write components to integrate the website with CiviCRM running within Drupal.  This is quite limiting because a lot of the built in goodness of CiviCRM like event registrations etc doesn't automatically appear within the Joomla! website.  We have sometimes done a dual install, so that webmasters can use the Joomla! CiviCRM and others can use the Drupal CiviCRM and it seemed to work.  We haven't tried doing that on 2.1 though - but I would be interested to hear from people who have and whether they have any issues.
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Re: Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
December 08, 2008, 04:25:51 am
@Andrew : I totally agree with you - the Joomla backend is not for your standard end user. However with a few minor hacks it would be possible to let people into the backend with fairly minimal danger: - I started to look at this with regard to the Joomla Demo - see post http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,5100.0.html

The other problem with Joomla integration is that people come at CiviCRM as an extension to a Joomla website rather than looking for an excellent CRM solution in its own right which can link to CMSs.

 

 

 

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Re: Joomla user that wishes you had picked Drupal?
February 15, 2009, 03:31:12 pm
I set up CiviCRM with Joomla for a client and did not run into any major issues. The only irritation was creating menu items to point to CiviContribute pages. I had to use the "url" style menu and then cut and paste the URL from the CiviCRM admin page into the Joomla menu item.  This issue has been fixed in the 2.2 version of CiviCRM.

I did evaluate Drupal and Joomla for this client, and went with Joomla because the overall ease of use was MUCH better in Joomla.  I have not had any regrets about choosing Joomla.   

In general I think CiviCRM could be better promoted to Joomla folks ( For example listing CiviCRM under the "Donations" and "Events" categories in the Joomla Extensions Directory) and make the core CiviCRM more CMS-agnostic.
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