Posted by lawrence k on 11/16/07 19:22

On Nov 9, 1:23 pm, firewood...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:01:17 -0800, Rob <ratkin...@tbs-ltd.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >On Nov 8, 3:24 pm, firewood...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> <"snip">
>
> >If you want to see an example of OOP in action for a CMS system, then
> >I'd suggest having a look at the source code for Mambo or Joomla.
> >Beware though, to truly understand it and benefit from the way it
> >works, you probably need to spend a few weeks getting your hands dirty
> >- it's no good just having a quick read through.
>
> >Rob.
>
> Thanks for that lead. I had been considering looking into Joomla for
> precisely that purpose, but I was not sure if it was the right CMS for
> my purposes. It is the most popular open source CMS (Drupal is number
> two), but that does not mean it is good for learning code.

That's an interesting statistic. I would have thought there are more
installations of WordPress than of Joomla, if for no other reason than
WordPress tends to be used on smaller sites and there are more smaller
sites in the world than there are larger sites. Where did you read
that Joomla was the most popular open source CMS?

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