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Hey there,

 

I'm going to develop adapt an integrated library system (those fancy web-based library management systems like the one used by your local university)...

 

My team already chose OpenBiblio as our basis for the thing... the problem is, we need a good looking UI for the users...

 

anybody know of a good CMS that can interface with MySQL properly and easily?

 

I already looked at WordPress and Joomla! and right now my sights are set for Joomla...

 

please and thanks.

 

-Hermit

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Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal(Is that how you type that?)

Those are the ones I know. Wordpress was 'best' because it had bigger plugins support. Joomla was fine too and Drupal was.. Alright

"We're all in this together, might as well be friends" Tom, Toonami.

 

mini eLiXiVy: my open source 65% mechanical PCB, a build log, PCB anatomy and discussing open source licenses: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1366493-elixivy-a-65-mechanical-keyboard-build-log-pcb-anatomy-and-how-i-open-sourced-this-project/

 

mini_cardboard: a 4% keyboard build log and how keyboards work: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1328547-mini_cardboard-a-4-keyboard-build-log-and-how-keyboards-work/

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Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal(Is that how you type that?)

Those are the ones I know. Wordpress was 'best' because it had bigger plugins support. Joomla was fine too and Drupal was.. Alright

 

Drupal huh... will look into that once my net connection becomes less bothersome... (Joomla (9.4MB) is currently downloading with ETA of 20h)

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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Drupal huh... will look into that once my net connection becomes less bothersome... (Joomla (9.4MB) is currently downloading with ETA of 20h)

Wow.. 

As I said, I only used it a small bit last year so don;t know how good it is now :)

"We're all in this together, might as well be friends" Tom, Toonami.

 

mini eLiXiVy: my open source 65% mechanical PCB, a build log, PCB anatomy and discussing open source licenses: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1366493-elixivy-a-65-mechanical-keyboard-build-log-pcb-anatomy-and-how-i-open-sourced-this-project/

 

mini_cardboard: a 4% keyboard build log and how keyboards work: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1328547-mini_cardboard-a-4-keyboard-build-log-and-how-keyboards-work/

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Drupal has a great community and has more customization features that go deeper compared to the others, Wordpress is the easiest of the bunch with great user-friendliness, and Joomla is sort of the All-rounder or the middle-ground between the two extremes. I personally use Drupal for their great community and the option to go deeper than ever.

 

for beginners I'd recommend wordpress the user-friendliness is top-notch and has thousands more free plug-ins than joomla.

 

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I'll check out Drupal once we have a temporary deployment...

 

the priority right now is to roll out something that's working with a good-looking front-end... We'll fine tune once that's done...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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I have experience both in Joomla & Wordpress, they're both OK. Learning curve is higher with Wordpress though.

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Go with wordpress, it's very easy, clean.

If u wanna face some backdoors and exploits, go with drupal. Check out this to learn more about popular cms vulnerabilities.

 

edit: I mean drupal, not joomla.

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