Joomla and JACL

I’ve been fooling with Joomla to see if it would be good for HBC.  Joomla installation is very user-friendly.  Modules and components are fun to load.  Though, getting something published requires you to think a different way.  But, it’s very cool and it looks good!

Granular permissioning is important.  So, I found Juga, which I couldn’t make do anything.  I uninstalled and loaded JACL, which is a hack.  I wasn’t sure what that meant until I got into the process of installing, uninstalling, then CHMOD a bunch of files manually, then reinstalling.  Then my login page barfed.  Then PHP errors.  Then I couldn’t get in the back end. 

Long story short, JACL is HORRIBLE!  thank goodness it’s a test site that’s mucked up.  I’ll have to reload and reconfigure the whole damn thing.  Even though, to go to production we’d have to anyways. 

I sure hope Joomla releases granular permissioning with a version soon.  Or, JACL will have to get a whole lot better.  Geeklog has Joomla beat up and down in this area. 

Geeklog should make modules and installation very easy.  Then we have something.

This entry was posted in General News. Bookmark the permalink.