Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/30/06 18:46

Adam wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:45:50 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>
>>_mario.lat wrote:
>>
>>>>My ISP offers joomla, mambo, postnuke & xoops so no worries about
>>>
>>>
>>>I had the same problem!
>>>post nuke is too old!
>>>Mambo and Joombla are pratically the same. Mambo have some political
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>The best are Joomla and Xoops.
>>>
>>>Joombla is a bit easy for newby.
>>>
>>>If you are a programmer the best is Xoops.
>>>If you have to deal with permission Xoops can create groups and assign to
>>>the groups the right permission (Joomla is not so detailed with the
>>>permissions).
>>>Xoops is more flexible but a bit more complex.
>>>
>>>Joomla is more easier for beginner and you can find more
>>>beautifull grafical layout (but Xoops is more flexible and power to create
>>>your layout).
>>>
>>>If you are a bit skilled chose Xoops.
>>>If you are a "normal" user and you don't have to give different permission
>>>to more than two or trhee groups chose Joomla.
>>>Mario.
>>
>>I'm currently looking at similar ones for a blog on a customer site.
>>I've just started investigating Drupal. How does this compare?
>>
>>Basically they're looking for something which can be configured with
>>multiple security levels, etc. and customized to look like the rest of
>>their site. But once it's up and running they need something which
>>doesn't require a huge amount of maintenance.
>
>
> Joomla isn't too hot on multiple security levels & groups. Basically
> only four (front end) levels with ONE group for each. There are
> add-ons to get round this, but I haven't tried them.
>
> In particular, you can't assign users/groups to specific content :-((
>
> I may look at Drupal and XOOPS, based on comments here - for that kind
> of functionality. In most other respects I really like Joomla.
>
> Adam.

Thanks for the info, Adam. I'm glad I asked; it looks like Joomla won't
work for what they need then.

I appreciate the response!

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