Modx & Drupal

Hi,

Let me apologize ahead of time for asking a question that’s probably been asked and answered a thousand times. I’m looking to invest some time into learning a PHP CMS and I wondered whether anyone could give me some idea about how Revolution stacks up to Drupal 7.

I already develop with PHP and JS so the extensibility/power of both is of interest to me, not just ease of use from an end user’s perspective.

Many thanks.

Quote from: Gazley at Jul 26, 2011, 03:07 PM

Hi,

Let me apologize ahead of time for asking a question that’s probably been asked and answered a thousand times. I’m looking to invest some time into learning a PHP CMS and I wondered whether anyone could give me some idea about how Revolution stacks up to Drupal 7.

I already develop with PHP and JS so the extensibility/power of both is of interest to me, not just ease of use from an end user’s perspective.

Many thanks.

All I can say is I tried Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla and I found that MODx allowed me the flexibility of creating my own designs and make it part of the framework and thats why I prefer it over the other CMS’s out there.

The learning curve is very minimal and based on your experience with PHP and Javascript I would say about 4 hours tops you will understand how MODx works.

Look into how snippets, chunks and template variables work and you will have a pretty solid foundation on how to work with MODx.

The best part is you can add your custom code to just about anything in MODx, want to change the back end you can do it, IMHO it was the most flexible and the easiest of them to learn when it came to creating templates since you have total control of how you design your template.

I’ve made these 4 sites using MODx and they all look different there’s no MODx look unlike most Wordpress sites, that is why I chose MODx as my CMS of choice, I hope you do to we need more experienced Devs to help MODx grow in popularity and create more plugins.

The other systems tend to be more user-friendly right out of the box; which is also a great weakness of them (they are one piece of software built to do many things). MODX is built to do anything, so each build is customized to exactly what you need. Also, as benmarte said, the other systems are hard and frustrating to template, and may take a while to wrap your head around (if at all). MODX is built to be conceptually easy at the beginning (if you have a little technical skill and are unafraid to get your hands dirty). Best yet, as you use it you will see that although easy to grasp, there are many levels to the complexity that MODX allows for. Go with MODX, IMHO. And welcome!