Drupal

L.Jenkins · 12-10-2013 02:21AM #1

Just wondering what's peoples experience of Drupal? Just running a local copy with wampserver and I want to play around with it and learn as much as possible. Just in the process of setting it up now.

L.Jenkins · 12-10-2013 04:25AM

Have it set up and running now. Just need to play with it for a while and see what it can and can't do.

Fussgangerzone · 15-10-2013 09:20AM

As a content management system, it can do a serious amount of stuff. You can add just about anything to it as a module, whether you make the module yourself or not. So it's quite powerful.

Complexity can have it's drawbacks though. It can be a bit fiddly to use, I have to say. The interface can be very off-putting.

Do you have a specific task in mind, or just training yourself up?

L.Jenkins · 15-10-2013 11:01AM

I'm just training myself up and seeing what I can do with it. When I gain a little experience, I may develop a module or two myself in time.

croo · 15-10-2013 05:04PM

I only played with it a little myself but when I queried others I know, who have used it for real live projects, and asked why it over Joomla say, they respond that if you need to do any development to extend/customise Drupal then it really shines.

I knew Joomla well at one point but rarely use it these days - many people find it complex but I always found it straight forward... when quickly review of Drupal (not development just using it) I found it to be a very nice tool. Easy to use.

osearcaigh · 21-10-2013 10:54AM

From experience, Drupal is most often used by software developers because it's traditionally been the nicest for custom extending. Wordpress has been the most popular generally, and has come a long way from it's blog origins in terms of what it can do. Users find it fairly easy and quick to learn too. Joomla has always been a platform for extending, so it's a little harder to learn how to use but is very powerful. The newer releases 2.5 and 3.x are all strongly OOP and both use MVC architecture.

09-12-2013 02:47PM

Been playing with it for a few days and I already think it's incredible.. I've very little knowledge in anything internet related but I've already got a working faceted search system based on taxonomies (categories) done. Now I'm looking at a better way me to do bulk work and for users to edit those taxonomies themselves. And maybe a way for exif data to be applied to the taxonomy automatically.

A week ago, I was messing around learning how to make simple php searches!

L.Jenkins · 09-12-2013 05:51PM

Yeah, it's a great little tool for developing pretty powerful websites.

Sparks · 12-12-2013 02:25PM

Tried an earlier, OO-but-not-OO-as-you-know-OO, didn't like it much. But then, I was used to other systems. Even as I was kicking it though, it was a solid chunk of code that worked (it just proved awkward to do what I wanted to do in it).

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