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Add to SafariWhen comparing Joomla! vs Leaf, the Slant community recommends Leaf for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP frameworks?” Leaf is ranked 13th while Joomla! is ranked 19th. The most important reason people chose Leaf is:
Leaf has a simple structure and easy code.
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Pros
Pro Highly customizable templates
Joomla allows for heavily customizable templates to be changed from the admin interface without needing to hack.
Pro Powerful and user-friendly admin interface
Admin interface is constantly being iterated on to remove unnecessary legacy features and to streamline the interface. Resulting in a very clean and easy to understand interface that also offers a wide range of options.
Pro More than 8000 extensions
Which can be found here.
Pro Easy to pick up
Pro Great for social networking and commerce sites
Joomla has both a good native support and a great list of extensions that make creating either a social networking or a commerce site easy.
Pro Simple structure
Leaf has a simple structure and easy code.
Pro Useful classes
Contains classes for managing requests, responses, cookies, logging, views, HTTP caching, and more.
Pro Beautiful, well organised documentation
Pro REST-based
Cons
Con Insecure
It's common-place for a Joomla-based website to be defaced, often very quickly. This is most often due to the low quality of extensions.
Con Extensions are scarce, badly maintained & rarely good
If it's not part of the default Joomla installation, quality extensions are rare. Joomla has a extensions library, but it is full of abandoned, dated or bloated components, modules and plugins.
Con Lack of a database layer
Has inbuilt connection methods for only mysqli and pdo.
