[TYPO3] Social Portal Project planning: TYPO3 vs Drupal

Thomas Meixner tmeixner at avecstyle.ca
Mon Aug 18 12:51:28 CEST 2008


Hello list,

I hope you had a good weekend.

I will have to decide for a project which can be described as a "social 
portal" and offers certain Facebook functionality whether TYPO3 or 
Drupal is the right tool for the job.
I have experience with TYPO3 (>10 sites) but none with Drupal.

If anyone with experience in both or for a similar project could post 
their opinion/advice I would be grateful. Also if anyone knows a similar 
project in TYPO3 for my research I would be thankful.

The key requirements are:
* Events can be created by FE users and other FE users can subscribe to 
and receive notification for Events.
* Events can be searched and listed by category or date

* User profiles: visibility private and public, relations to other users 
(block profile, buddy)
* Integrated forum
* Blog linked to the Events as review


In TYPO3 my take would be tt_news, the cal extension for events and the 
mm_forum which I haven't tried yet but which seems to be very powerful.

I see problems arising with the relationship between user profiles which 
I haven't seen on a TYPO3 site yet
Also I have never seen an implementation of the subscription feature of 
the cal apart from a description in the manual.

Personally I feel like having to make a decision whether I prefer 
banging my head against some of the biggest TYPO3 extensions or learn a 
new CMS from scratch ...

I already found this site which meets most of our requirements in Drupal 
(German):
http://www.yoci.de


Regards,
Thomas Meixner



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