The Zyxist Diaries A programmer's voice from Poland

3Nov/090

Joomla – how not to write CMS-es?

Usually, I keep myself away from popular PHP CMS applications, because I do not have a good opinion about their quality. However, I had to make my last project on Joomla, so I had a chance to get to know it better and rate it more precisely. Unfortunately, it proved my previous imaginations. The script not only did not help, but also produced many new problems that would never occur, if I used a framework and wrote everything from scratch. The goal of this post is the analysis of the most important CMS drawbacks and problems introduced by them, and partially – looking for the answer why they are so bad.

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