TYPO3 versus eZ Publish

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Jozef Baum	Monday 22 June 2009 4:06:37 pm I want to build small private websites with little traffic. However, as eZ Publish is said to be used for personal websites as well as for enterprise level websites, I choose for eZ Publish. After all, eZ Publish is free, and the system which can do the most complex things, also can do the most trivial things. I have come from TYPO3 to eZ Publish. Why? It's not just because until recently, the main developer of TYPO3, Kasper, seems to have a rather excentric personality, which doesn't avoid him to be a good developper, and about the next TYPO3 generation, version 3.x, will break compatibility with previous versions. eZ Publish is offered with commercial licences as well as with a free license. To me, this seems to be the most interesting software, as such a software has to fulfil the requirements of users who pay (a lot) for it, and at the same time benefits of the input of the free users community. Because of this, eZ Publish cannot say to its users: "Well, it's free software, you have to take it as it is, if it doesn't fit your needs, it's up to you to modify it." In eZ Publish, there is truly a clear separation of content and design. Only clear XML goes into the database, no HTML. This is a very important feature to make conversions easy and to makle sure the future use of what is stored in the database, and allows for easy conversion to various output formats, as well as for easy integration with other applications. TYPO3 seems to only be a web content management system, whereas eZ Publish is first of all a content managemt system, allowing for a well structured, organized, and with input validation for many datatypes, with on top of it a rich web content management system. eZ Publish comes out of the box with always every functionality a user may need. With TYPO3, to have the same functionality, one has to make intensive use of extensions, mostly written by users, of which the quality is extremely heterogeneous. Finally, there is the education time needed for non-technical editors. With eZ Publish, this requires much less time then with TYPO3.
André R.	Tuesday 23 June 2009 1:56:20 am Welcome to the community Jozef! Interesting to hear how other cms communities work, and after some time here you should (if you can) share your thoughts about what works and what needs to improve in this threads: Community discussion: http://ez.no/developer/forum/developer/new_community_site_basis_and_ideas Admin interface discussion: http://ez.no/developer/forum/suggestions/2_years_ago "TYPO3 seems to only be a web content management system, whereas eZ Publish is first of all a content management system" Our web content management system features is part of the webin extensions witch is installed if you select the Webinterface or Flowinterface package during the install. I personally always build on top of them, but they do add another layer you'll have to deal with, so can be a bit more difficult the first few times. eZ Online Editor 5: http://projects.ez.no/ezoe \|\| eZJSCore (Ajax): http://projects.ez.no/ezjscore \|\| eZ Publish EE http://ez.no/eZPublish/eZ-Publish-Enterprise-Subscription @: http://twitter.com/andrerom

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Monday 22 June 2009 4:06:37 pm

I want to build small private websites with little traffic. However, as eZ Publish is said to be used for personal websites as well as for enterprise level websites, I choose for eZ Publish. After all, eZ Publish is free, and the system which can do the most complex things, also can do the most trivial things.

I have come from TYPO3 to eZ Publish. Why?

It's not just because until recently, the main developer of TYPO3, Kasper, seems to have a rather excentric personality, which doesn't avoid him to be a good developper, and about the next TYPO3 generation, version 3.x, will break compatibility with previous versions.

eZ Publish is offered with commercial licences as well as with a free license. To me, this seems to be the most interesting software, as such a software has to fulfil the requirements of users who pay (a lot) for it, and at the same time benefits of the input of the free users community. Because of this, eZ Publish cannot say to its users: "Well, it's free software, you have to take it as it is, if it doesn't fit your needs, it's up to you to modify it."

In eZ Publish, there is truly a clear separation of content and design. Only clear XML goes into the database, no HTML. This is a very important feature to make conversions easy and to makle sure the future use of what is stored in the database, and allows for easy conversion to various output formats, as well as for easy integration with other applications. TYPO3 seems to only be a web content management system, whereas eZ Publish is first of all a content managemt system, allowing for a well structured, organized, and with input validation for many datatypes, with on top of it a rich web content management system.

eZ Publish comes out of the box with always every functionality a user may need. With TYPO3, to have the same functionality, one has to make intensive use of extensions, mostly written by users, of which the quality is extremely heterogeneous.

Finally, there is the education time needed for non-technical editors. With eZ Publish, this requires much less time then with TYPO3.

André R.

Tuesday 23 June 2009 1:56:20 am

Welcome to the community Jozef!
Interesting to hear how other cms communities work, and after some time here you should (if you can) share your thoughts about what works and what needs to improve in this threads:

Community discussion: http://ez.no/developer/forum/developer/new_community_site_basis_and_ideas
Admin interface discussion: http://ez.no/developer/forum/suggestions/2_years_ago

"TYPO3 seems to only be a web content management system, whereas eZ Publish is first of all a content management system"

Our web content management system features is part of the webin extensions witch is installed if you select the Webinterface or Flowinterface package during the install.
I personally always build on top of them, but they do add another layer you'll have to deal with, so can be a bit more difficult the first few times.

eZ Online Editor 5: http://projects.ez.no/ezoe || eZJSCore (Ajax): http://projects.ez.no/ezjscore || eZ Publish EE http://ez.no/eZPublish/eZ-Publish-Enterprise-Subscription
@: http://twitter.com/andrerom