TYPO3 vs ProcessWire
When comparing TYPO3 vs ProcessWire, the Slant community recommends ProcessWire for most people. In the question“What is the best PHP CMS?” ProcessWire is ranked 1st while TYPO3 is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose ProcessWire is:
You will always find one to respond politely in the forums. Sometimes even the creator Ryan Cramer himself.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Flexible multi-lingual site management
You can use both one-tree and multi-tree structure.
Pro Multiple websites/domains from one installation
You can use a single TYPO3 installation for multiple websites and domains.
Pro TYPO3 is enterprise
TYPO3 can be used from small to very big installations where it is possible to give rights to users on a very fine grained basis.
Pro Nice and helpful growing community
You will always find one to respond politely in the forums. Sometimes even the creator Ryan Cramer himself.
Pro Custom Fields on steroids
ProcessWire is heavily based on custom fields. All objects (Pages) inside ProcessWire are based on extensible templates comprised of fields that can be easily defined. Many useful fields come prebuilt and they can be extended with modules.
Pro Easy to learn
Processwire is extremely easy to learn. Consider this:
echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->title; // "Hello World"
echo $pages->get('title=Hello World')->parent->title; // "Home"
echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->count; // 126
echo $pages->find('Template=Category')->each('title'); // ['Audio', 'Video' …]
Selectors are so powerful but yet so easy.
Check out the cheatsheet.
Pro Powerful and easy API
The API is jQuery like;
// find some pages:
$pages->find('template=skyscraper, architect=john, sort=title')->limit(4);
// mutate
$pages->get('title=Hello You')->set('title', 'HelloWorld')->save();
$pages->get('title=Old')->trash(); // trash page
// check user…
$user->isLogedin();
echo $user->name; // guest
$session->login($name, $pass);
$session->logout();
// redirect
$session->redirect($url);
Pro Powerful selector engine
The way you fetch, access and manipulate objects (Pages) in ProcessWire is extremely powerful and easy. You can receive any page and its custom fields, filter, travers, add…
Pro Template Engine Agnostic
By default, ProcessWire comes with 0 assumption on how you handle the output. You have 100% freedom on how you want to develop the frontend. Want to plain output stuff, go ahead. Want to use any number of Templating Engine, do it. Just use as Headless-CMS, okay!
Pro Extensible
Either using the modules already available or writing your own module, using the jQuery-like API.
Pro Open source
Source available on GitHub.