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Drupal 4.6.0 Released
ajayg writes "Drupal is IMHO one of the best open sourced Content Management Systems out there. The Drupal community has just released version 4.6.0 of their PHP based CMS which finally provides support for PHP5. The release follows 6 months of development, and includes -- among other changes -- better search function as well as usability improvements for permissions, block configuration, statistics tracking, logs, forum configuration, content administration, etc."
or to plone ? (which is my favorite opensource CMS)
Compare with Drupal with xxx on CMS Matrix
#include "coucou.h"
PHP-Nuke and PHP-BB are spaghetti coded nightmares with frequent security holes, and are a total pain to extend/customise.
Drupal has a much cleaner core design with a good API and theme engines. It also has impressive metadata capabilities for organising content. And a friendly vibrant community with no big egos involved, and lots of available 3rd party modules.
The only criticism I can think of would be that out of the box it is more of a blog style community portal than a static site CMS. It can do static site type stuff, but you will need to tweak it a little.
It's also pretty fast - up there with the fastest CMS apps. I'd recommend checking it out.
Agree 100% about phpbb. Stay the hell away from it. Somebody finds a cross site scripting vuln or remote code execution vuln every other week it seems. Besides, it's not really a CMS at all, it's just a bulletin board, and not a very good one at that. I prefer IPB any day of the week, phpbb's feature set is rather lame. About the only thing going for it is that it's free.
I've been using drupal on citizenchris.org, which I administer for a friend (blatant plug).
I've been happy with the results. It has a clean design and good documentation for a free software project.
I've been too lazy/busy to tinker much with it, but the leqrning curve should be simple enough for most administrator types, though not necessarily for the layman.
evanchik.net
Drupal can also drive your average brochure site or be used as a knowledge base app for your intranet. There are hardly any limits. Due to its extensiblity you can add a lot of features (or omit them). You should not base your assumptions about what Drupal can do based on what you see at drupal.org. BTW, there aren't any blogs there...