Comparing XOOPS to Seagull
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review
Since I really like Xoops, it has limitations that made me looking for something like Seagull:
- Xoops is definitely more a CMS than a framework, of course you can disable a majority of bundled modules, but using Xoops as a framework is really heavy
- No native multi lingual support. You have to patch core files at EACH version upgrade to keep this function.
- No native friendly URLs at the moment..(I think) but there is a complicated trick with mod_rewrite (and patch core files again)
- Pear integration only for DB abstraction layer
- For each upgrade, need to drop or modify strings into templates as they are for a community usage, not a professional one. ie: "rank" in user info, "comments" in news...
- making a table free design is a pain as Xoops iterates left /right columns is cells
- And last but not least: Documentation! (the nightmare of devs ;p) there is a strong support for users but the api doc for programmers is 2 versions old and so light (PHPDoc generated)...
conclusion
Xoops is better as a cms Seagull is better as a framework
Xoops has by the moment one advantage: production status.
