Comments on: Joomla! – Old Code or Bad Code?

By: abcphp.com

abcphp.com — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:50:00 +0000

Joomla! – Old Code or Bad Code? | stoimen.com/blog…

Recently I started managing a small system based on Joomla 1.0.15. I know there is a most recent version of the popular CMS, but this one wasn’t based on it. Actually once upon a time I was working with Joomla as basic CMS for my web projects, but now …

By: David

David — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:17:20 +0000

It’s difficult to say, what I mean is that I don’t expect old projects like phpBB, Joomla!, mambo, and so on to implement design patterns. Although patterns are important, not many php developers take the challenge in planning, design (OOD), and most importantly, unit testing.

In their time they were the best out there, now applications like wordpress and joomla! are staying behind due to the flexibility of frameworks (especially full-stack frameworks like symfony and zend framework) or middle frameworks like cakephp, akelos, etc.

That said, Joomla! still have time, if the developers are fully motivated they could rewrite joomla (same to other projects)

By: david

david — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:15:13 +0000

They stopped supporting the version almost a year ago, 22 july 2009, so it is old code. Announcing joomla is bad because you use an old version is like saying html5 is bad because you use IE6.

Why do you think everything in one file is a bad thing? In my book you should only separate what needs separation. MCV forces you to separate by default if you use it blindly. Which means you can have three files which are never going to be reused or extended somewhere else.

By: Stoimen

Stoimen — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:28:39 +0000

I’ve to check them out definitely! Thanks!

By: Werner

Werner — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:15:17 +0000

You’re right. Joomla sucks in many ways. There are some other amazing CMSs, like TYPOlight/Contao.

Zend Framework is really good for web projects.