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• Keeton
  
  

  • Rank: Freshman
  • Registered: Oct 07, 2003
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 55

  Posted: Dec 03, 2004 - 01:39 AM

  Reading this thread makes me think that Mambo is very fast and good looking. PN is the slow, heavy and versatile one.
  
  Let us think of it as cars: Mambo a racecar, Postnuke a pickuptruck.
  Mambo can go very very fast. Postnuke will get there eventually.
  Mambo can hold one person. Postnuke can carry lots of them on the wide platform in the back.
  Mambo has to use flat asfalt roads. Postnuke can take most terrains.
  
  I think it is a trade-off, versatility vs speed.
  
  Please give me loads of modules, settings and options. I dont care if a page takes .02 or .2 seconds to generate, it is the bandwith that matters in the end.
  
  Grtz,
  Keeton
  
  ps: I do have to say I had some probs with a 3rd party module (Stats V.5) that caused a generation time of several seconds with a large table. I do hope it is fiixed, cause it was a usefull module.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

  • Rank: Softmore
  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 21, 2009
  • Posts: 221

  Posted: Dec 18, 2004 - 09:32 AM

  I like the analogy. Having been messing with Postnuke since pn273 and Mambo since 4.5.0(109) there are two conclusions I can draw - though none are to do with speed.
  
  Fine grained permissions:
  Use nuke not Mambo (there is a psuedo group permission hack but it cant touch PN - Mambo 5 series possibly in June 2005 will have fine grained permissions and a folder/content structure - source Mambo forums)
  
  Articles and Documents:
  There is a component called Docman for mambo which has a really useful feature. When publishing an article you can use the WYSIWYG editor to pop up a list of published documents and link to them directly - now i always wanted PN to do this - i just wasnt smart or quick enough to hook in the Downloads module to the news module.
  
  Templating:
  PN & AutoTheme is hard to beat but.....Mambo 4.5.1a has unlimited module positions (I think - modules = PN blocks) an XHTML WYSIWYG, media manager, image inserts into articles (always there i 4.5.x). And there are some easy hacks to template per component or down to section/cat levels too..
  
  Hey but thats three right........?
  
  The thing that bugs me about both is that neither treat content as objects that are structured and have relationships to other objects that is expressed in an intuitive admin GUI.
  
  I have no idea what i just said but it felt right somewhere.......
  
  
  
  
  slipsy
  
  PS i have largely switched to Mambo for client work as PN was feeling like a juggernaut when a four door saloon would do fine.

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