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Both TYPO3 and Joomla claim to be the best PHP open-source CMS.  If you try to “google” the enquiry “TYPO3 vs Joomla”, you can find that many Joomla-fans find TYPO3 more advanced and complex to set up – yet without detailed comparison. This is what I dedicated this post to: describing the differences between these two CMSs – TYPO3 and Joomla.

Document version control
TYPO3 allows to control absolutely each record and content element in the page tree – you can undo changes, browse history etc.

Joomla completely lacks document version control.

Workflow feature
The workflow is a necessary feature if you have many editors who write articles.
Joomla completely lacks it. It means it won’t be possible to allow chief editor to make decision what will be published and what will be returned for revision.

TYPO3 has a feature called “Task center” where you can define tasks for each user and workflow. Though it certainly needs improvement, the Task Center is a great advantage over Joomla.

Import/Export of the content
If you need to tarnsfer content from one website to another, Export/Import functionality will help you.

TYPO3 has a built-in import/export functionality. It easily exports and imports content using TYPO3′s native .t3d archives, so helps a lot in manipulating data and is very easy to use in most of the cases.

Joomla lacks export functionality. If you need to transfer content from one website to another you would have to dig into MySQL tables directly and manually copy all the files using FTP.

Security and authentication features
Again, TYPO3 has a great advantage over Joomla CMS.

Joomla allows to create only 8  user groups which can not be changed unless you use  an extension. Furthermore, you cannot set security level with high level of granularity for users groups in Joomla.

With TYPO3 you can create unlimited number of front-end and back-end user groups which can be nested. For each group you can define which content, folders/pages/extensions users can access.

Load balancing and replication
Load balancing is something that both Joomla and TYPO3 lack out of the box. Generic replication of file system and MySQL databases can be done on the  absolutely same way both these systems.

TYPO3 include one very powerful option – ability to cache SQL results on distributed cache servers using memcached. This technique is used by many high-traffic web sites (FaceBook, Wikipedia, SourceForge and Slashdot to name the few). In order to use distributed caching in TYPO3 you would have to setup your database connection using the dbal and adodb system extension and of course install memcached on at least one server.
Given all that, you could consider TYPO3 much higher in terms of load-balancing.

Back-end editing capabilities
Anyone who is used to work with TYPO3 BE consider that Joomla BE is very simple and feature poor. In TYPO3 all records and content elements are organized in a very structural way.

I have found the Joomla BE to be not structurally organized and very limited in many situations.

Conclusion
The conclusion is very predictable – Joomla is a very simplified CMS which can  satisfy only needs of very small web-sites and organizations. For other purposes, I would recommend going for TYPO3 – the advantages are enormous. On the first look you might find that you don’t need all the functionalities TYPO3 has, it is just a matter of time when you will change your mind.

Sources: EssentialDots

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