Drupal CMS

[jsarber]

Anyone use it? Is scheduling content change possible using it? I've asked on their forum but haven't gotten any answers yet.

[David Gillaspey]

Hi Jeremy,

I'm planning to use Drupal for my own website, when I transition the website to a content management system sometime in the future.

At the top of this thread,

http://www.greatchurchwebsites.org/forums/showthread.php?t=654

you'll see a list of church sites using different open-source web Content Management Systems such as Drupal. At the time of this writing, I only list two for Drupal, however.

<< Is scheduling content change possible using it?>>

I'm sure it is, but likely it's a functionality provided by one or more of the modules (third party add-ons) that are available for the CMS. Thus, you'll want to focus your research here:

http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/57

or here:

http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/58

(The Drupal site was not working properly as I write this, however.)

The Drupal developers cannot be expected to know what functionality is provided by all the many available modules, so you'll want to do the research yourself.

It's possible this is what you're after:

http://drupal.org/project/view_scheduler

[Faithhb_lutheran]

David,

I'm curious why are you choosing Drupal over Joomla?

[HansR]

Obviously, I can't speak to David's motivation, but it seems the consesus is "Out of the box, Joomla is easier" although Drupal is a more powerful CMS.

http://drupal.org/node/109428
http://drupal.org/node/136258
http://drupal.org/node/90278
http://drupal.org/node/167706
http://drupal.org/node/146997
http://linkfindblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Drupal%20Vs%20Joomla

For a 10-part podcast series on how Drupal can help your church or ministry visit http://geeksandgod.com. Visit their past episodes and find your way to January '07.

[David Gillaspey]

I'm curious why are you choosing Drupal over Joomla?Hi Kyle,

Joomla would be a fine choice of CMS for most people. I was very impressed by its control panel when I installed a demo.

In my case, I need a CMS that allows the inclusion of executable PHP code in uploaded content (articles). Drupal offers this; I don't know of any other CMS that does.

Obviously, allowing users to insert PHP code into articles is a big security risk, which is why other CMS software solutions don't permit it. Instead, users (or programmers) have to put their PHP code snippets into include files or the equivalent of include files.

There's also the potential problem of user PHP code interacting with CMS code, since it can usually be expected that an open-source CMS uses PHP. How Drupal gets around this, I don't know.

In Drupal's control panel, the site administrator sets for each user an appropriate level of permissions, among which is the ability to include PHP code in content they upload, or not. Thus, the administrator can keep other users from including PHP code in articles they upload, if the administrator so desires. This minimizes the security risks.

On my site, I frequently use snippets (or, on many pages, lots) of PHP code through the page. I might use PHP to make a search result page say "Your search result is shown below" when only one result was found but "Your search results are shown below" if more than one search result was found.

An another example, I might have a lot of text on the first page of the search results, but show only one paragraph of that text on all subsequent pages of the search results.

Thus, for me, it's very important to have the ability to include PHP code.

[Faithhb_lutheran]

Hmm I see what you mean. It's interesting that Drupal let's you do that throughout the whole site. I know Joomla has modules that allow you to allow that. They are built for forums and magazine style uses, so it limits where they can be used. Thanks for the explanation.