CiviCRM for Drupal 7 and Joomla 1.6
Apr/111
CiviCRM 4.0.0 has been released for the latest Drupal version – 7 and the new Joomla version – 1.6. Up until now it was necessary to install CiviCRM on the older Drupal 6 and Joomla 1.5.
Highlights
- CiviCampaign has been integrated with other components such as CiviContribute, CiviMember, CiviEvent, CiviMail and CiviEngage
- Joomla v1.6 introduced an ACL based permissioning system. This gets CiviJoomla to much closer parity with CiviDrupal.
- CiviMember now allows membership upsell. This allows membership type to be changed on renewal
- CiviCRM Extensions. You can now browse and download CiviCRM extensions from within your CiviCRM install.
- A new API – version 3, introduces standardisation of functions, inputs and outputs.
For users of existing Drupal 6 and Joomla 1.5 CiviCRM installs, the simultaneous release of 3.4 for these versions includes the same features.
2020Media provides free installation of CiviCRM on all Drupal and Joomla hosting plans.
Ease of Upgrade – Joomla, WordPress, Drupal
Feb/111
Comparison of the upgrade methods used in Joomla, WordPress and Drupal
Popular content management systems require updating from time to time. Sometimes this is for new features, often because a security loophole needs patching. In this article we’re not going to look at which CMS most often requires updates, but at the upgrade procedure itself. How easy is it, are the instructions clear and easy to follow, what the potential problems, and what can you do if something goes wrong? At the time of writing new major versions of Drupal (7.0) and Joomla (1.6) have been released and no updates have yet been produced for these releases. We therefore concentrate on the older versions, which run the vast majority of existing sites.
The Economist migrates to Drupal
Oct/100
The Economist runs Drupal
Drupal is used on many thousands of websites, but a recent convert to Drupal is The Economist. The Economist is now using Drupal 6 to serve the vast majority of content pages to its primary web site, economist.com. Drupal powers the homepage, along with all articles, channels, comments, and more.
The site is incredibly busy – over 100,000 stories and a Posting rate exceeding a comment per minute. It also boasts 20-30 million page views per month with 3-4 millon unique visitors over the same period.
The Economist has a large varied dataset and moving from the previous system (based on ColdFusion and Oracle) was no easy task. They hired a specialist company called Cyrve who’ve written and open-sourced a Drupal module to enable migrations of existing complex databases to Drupal. Read more about the migration, or check out Drupal Hosting from 2020Media.
Joomla News
Jul/103
Joomla Hosting
Here’s a few extensions for Joomla CMS that we’ve found very useful so we thought’d we’d share them with you.
- jLoginAlert Emails you when someone tries to login to your site.
- Mobile Joomla Reformats your site to fit mobiles
- JoomArt Extensions Manager Centralised management and updating of extensions
- Docman document/download manager with user login, notifications and a big supporting community.
- VirtueMart free ecommerce extension that can also be used as a catalogue.
- ReDJ allows you to create short urls on your site that redirect to actual pages. See www.2020media.com/contact for an example.
Coming soon for Joomla fans is going to be the release of Joomla 1.6. This is actually quite a major update, the current 1.5 release has been going for around 3 years and the release of 1.6 will open up Joomla far more to integrate with other services. This is an approach the Drupal has used very successfully so its a case of Joomla catching up with how the web is developing now.
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