Mambo or Joomla?

**Jerry Stuckle** · May 30 '06, 06:05 PM

Re: Mambo or Joomla?

KCC wrote:[color=blue]
> I apologize if this is not the correct group to ask this question but I
> can't find another newgroup that might help and I am having no luck at the
> Mambo or Joomla forums.
>
> I am looking for a content managament system and these two seem to fit the
> bill for what I am looking for but I am a little confused as to the real
> differences between mambo and Joomla. I appears as though the original
> Mambo developers all resigned in late 2005 and decided to start up Joomla.
> Does anyone have an opinion (without flaming please) of which would be the
> best way to go in the long run? Does anyone on this forum have any
> experience with these two systems that can give me an honest appraisal.
>
> The site in question would be a large database of resourses (everything from
> weblinks to various resources, code snippets, and objects, etc). I would be
> creating the weblink resource first and adding sections as time progresses.
> Weblinks would have a variety of categories with subcategories as would the
> other future resources.
>
> Thank you, and if this is OT for this newsgroup please point me to the
> correct one.
>
> KCC
>
>[/color]

It's not a PHP question, so yes, it is off-topic in this newsgroup.

You might try alt.www.webmasters. Don't know of others because I don't use either.

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**Paul Lautman** · May 30 '06, 06:15 PM

Re: Mambo or Joomla?

KCC wrote:[color=blue]
> I apologize if this is not the correct group to ask this question but
> I can't find another newgroup that might help and I am having no luck
> at the Mambo or Joomla forums.
>
> I am looking for a content managament system and these two seem to
> fit the bill for what I am looking for but I am a little confused as
> to the real differences between mambo and Joomla. I appears as
> though the original Mambo developers all resigned in late 2005 and
> decided to start up Joomla. Does anyone have an opinion (without
> flaming please) of which would be the best way to go in the long run?
> Does anyone on this forum have any experience with these two systems
> that can give me an honest appraisal.
>
> The site in question would be a large database of resourses
> (everything from weblinks to various resources, code snippets, and
> objects, etc). I would be creating the weblink resource first and
> adding sections as time progresses. Weblinks would have a variety of
> categories with subcategories as would the other future resources.
>
> Thank you, and if this is OT for this newsgroup please point me to the
> correct one.
>
> KCC[/color]

At present there is little to choose between them, but they are starting to
bifurcate.. I am still using MAMBO due to csome problems that I discovered
with Joomla, but it really is a case of toss a coin.

**KCC** · May 30 '06, 07:25 PM

Re: Mambo or Joomla?

Thank you Paul. Jerry I will try the webmasters group, thanks for the
suggestion.

"Paul Lautman" <paul.lautman@b tinternet.com> wrote in message
news:4e3ghrF1ct 9vjU1@individua l.net...[color=blue]
> KCC wrote:[color=green]
> > I apologize if this is not the correct group to ask this question but
> > I can't find another newgroup that might help and I am having no luck
> > at the Mambo or Joomla forums.
> >
> > I am looking for a content managament system and these two seem to
> > fit the bill for what I am looking for but I am a little confused as
> > to the real differences between mambo and Joomla. I appears as
> > though the original Mambo developers all resigned in late 2005 and
> > decided to start up Joomla. Does anyone have an opinion (without
> > flaming please) of which would be the best way to go in the long run?
> > Does anyone on this forum have any experience with these two systems
> > that can give me an honest appraisal.
> >
> > The site in question would be a large database of resourses
> > (everything from weblinks to various resources, code snippets, and
> > objects, etc). I would be creating the weblink resource first and
> > adding sections as time progresses. Weblinks would have a variety of
> > categories with subcategories as would the other future resources.
> >
> > Thank you, and if this is OT for this newsgroup please point me to the
> > correct one.
> >
> > KCC[/color]
>
> At present there is little to choose between them, but they are starting[/color]
to[color=blue]
> bifurcate.. I am still using MAMBO due to csome problems that I discovered
> with Joomla, but it really is a case of toss a coin.
>
>[/color]

**Adam** · May 31 '06, 01:05 PM

Re: Mambo or Joomla?

On Tue, 30 May 2006 11:20:02 -0500, KCC wrote:
[color=blue]
>I apologize if this is not the correct group to ask this question but I
>can't find another newgroup that might help and I am having no luck at the
>Mambo or Joomla forums.
>
>I am looking for a content managament system and these two seem to fit the
>bill for what I am looking for but I am a little confused as to the real
>differences between mambo and Joomla. I appears as though the original
>Mambo developers all resigned in late 2005 and decided to start up Joomla.
>Does anyone have an opinion (without flaming please) of which would be the
>best way to go in the long run? Does anyone on this forum have any
>experience with these two systems that can give me an honest appraisal.
>
>The site in question would be a large database of resourses (everything from
>weblinks to various resources, code snippets, and objects, etc). I would be
>creating the weblink resource first and adding sections as time progresses.
>Weblinks would have a variety of categories with subcategories as would the
>other future resources.
>
>Thank you, and if this is OT for this newsgroup please point me to the
>correct one.[/color]

I don't think it's *too* far off topic ;-) Both are PHP based and, at
some stage, you're definitely going to get your hands dirty trying to
tweak the output. A good background in PHP and basic database design
would help a lot.

More so, though, is a sound knowledge of CSS - to get your site to not
look like yet another Joomla/Mambo template clone.

Anyway ... back to your question <!!>.... I tried out many of the
currently popular CMS systems a while back and settled for either
Mambo or Joomla as they (both) offered greater design/layout
flexibility. I don't do "blog" style sites.

After a while of running both in tandem, I settled on Joomla - as it
appeared to be "going somewhere" - and Mambo seemed to be floundering.
Not very scientific, but that's the impression I got from the level of
support for components/modules writers. Most were switching horses -
to Joomla.

Both are slightly buggy (I found Mambo wouldn't behave at all on my
WinXP development system).

I'd definitely go for Joomla.

Adam.