If you use Joomla, you may not have to hire a programmer. There is a good chance that a quiz program with your requirements has already been developed.
I just checked the extension listings on Joomla.org and there are many quiz programs. Take a look. http://extensions.joomla.org/search?q=quiz On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Chris TheEnd <ch...@theendrecords.com> wrote: > Joomla! could be a good place to start. > > However if you go the Joomla! route you could just extend another polls > project and offer it back to the community. > > One consideration is if you go that route, hire someone familiar with Joomla! > not just php. > > > Chris > On Aug 2, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Gene Desepoli wrote: > >> Hi >> I am considering hiring someone to >> develop an extensive online quiz program >> with php/MySQL. I am not sure if it >> would be a good idea to use Joomla as >> the website for this application or if I >> should leave it up to the developer to >> create a new website. >> >> Are there any considerations I shoudl be >> aware of if using Joomla? >> >> Thanks >> Gene >> >> On 7/31/10 12:00 PM, >> joomla-requ...@lists.nyphp.org wrote: >>> Send joomla mailing list submissions to >>> joo...@lists.nyphp.org >>> >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>> joomla-requ...@lists.nyphp.org >>> >>> You can reach the person managing the list at >>> joomla-ow...@lists.nyphp.org >>> >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >>> than "Re: Contents of joomla digest..." >>> >>> >>> Today's Topics: >>> >>> 1. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Fred Sullivan) >>> 2. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Mark Simko) >>> 3. Re: Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Mitch Pirtle) >>> 4. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Gary Mort) >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:04 -0400 >>> From: Fred Sullivan<f...@avdrive.com> >>> To: joomla@lists.nyphp.org >>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 >>> Message-ID: >>> <aanlkti=fph+__6shpf1zeehknizs3zmutf-jhwwdx...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>> >>> 2. Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Gary Mort) >>> >>> Amazing post, Thank You! I went to one day of the Drupal Camp NYC 2010 to >>> learn and observe. In the days before the camp installed local version and >>> created a test site. It had been a while since I had done that with Drupal. >>>> From an integrators perspective it is mature and elegant in it's coding, >>> documentation and user community a much higher percentage of the attendees >>> where actual coders/developers than at a equivalent Joomla event. But >>> compared to Joomla as far as getting up a basic site to do many things it >>> was much more time consuming and involved and takes a much higher technical >>> proficiency. It is reflected in the book shelf at say Barnes and Noble >>> almost all Drupal books are for developers, almost all Joomla books are end >>> designer and users manuals. >>> >>> Joomla's object oriented approach is much more advanced and abstract and >>> has been much more and it has been set up to be more designer and user >>> friendly thus there are more users less community. Drupal much more on basic >>> level programmer friendly for a beginning to average programmer. Joomla as >>> percentage has in number fewer coders and developers that participate in the >>> community but the ones that do are very advanced. The Joomla community needs >>> to work much harder at Joomla developer training of beginning and mid level >>> programmers to flourish. Drupal needs to work much harder at getting a >>> friendlier interface for designers and users probably by including more in >>> their core to grow their end user community. >>> >>> Fred Sullivan >>> @fredjet >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL:<http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20100730/3f536e2d/attachment-0001.html> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Message: 2 >>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:05:23 -0400 >>> From: Mark Simko<masi...@verizon.net> >>> To: joomla@lists.nyphp.org >>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 >>> Message-ID:<1280513123.6594.21.ca...@jersey> >>> Content-Type: text/plain >>> >>> >>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website? >>> >>> >>>> Message: 2 >>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:21:59 -0400 >>>> From: Gary Mort<garyam...@gmail.com> >>>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla@lists.nyphp.org> >>>> Subject: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective >>>> Message-ID: >>>> <aanlktindy3jbpnjbdiosf1y15zfyatnmq3d+1fqi+...@mail.gmail.com> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Message: 3 >>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:06:36 -0400 >>> From: Mitch Pirtle<mitch.pir...@gmail.com> >>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla@lists.nyphp.org> >>> Subject: Re: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective >>> Message-ID: >>> <aanlktikblmkxajuz_en6g6ej8=zkyorcwiq=yxjcj...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >>> >>> To be fair, the whole "not invented here" syndrome is prevalent in the >>> web development world overall, and plagues a great many more projects >>> than just Joomla. >>> >>> I still think that completely sucks though. :-) >>> >>> -- Mitch >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Message: 4 >>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:25:46 -0400 >>> From: Gary Mort<garyam...@gmail.com> >>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla@lists.nyphp.org> >>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 >>> Message-ID: >>> <aanlktikztfnspwh2o_pof=gpr_bprv=ueyw7djx6v...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mark Simko<masi...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I really want to clean it up a bit before posting it far and wide. :-) >>> >>> But I've been sitting on my thoughts for about a week and a half now after >>> doing a bunch of custom coding to get Ubercart to work the way I wanted it >>> to. One thing I found nice was that it was a HECK of a lot easier than >>> Virtuemart to customize...and a LOT more nicely integrated than Magento[in >>> fact, we are currently using Magento and it completely sucks] >>> >>> So I figured I'd let em out in case others had their own input on Drupal vs >>> Joomla.... terminology is a real b......i....t......c.......you know what. >>> Since both Drupal and Joomla have "modules" but they do completely >>> different things. Plugins in Joomla are self-documenting to an extent, >>> while hooks in drupal you need to lookup. The Joomla extensions directory, >>> for all my complaints, really shines while Drupal's you have to know what >>> your looking for more clearly. >>> >>> All in all.... I have a real appreciation for the power of Drupal....but I >>> still prefer Joomla. >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL:<http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20100730/0a072956/attachment-0001.html> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> joomla mailing list >>> joomla@lists.nyphp.org >>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >>> >>> End of joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 18 >>> ************************************** >>> >>> >> >> >> On 7/31/10 12:00 PM, >> joomla-requ...@lists.nyphp.org wrote: >>> Send joomla mailing list submissions to >>> joo...@lists.nyphp.org >>> >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >>> joomla-requ...@lists.nyphp.org >>> >>> You can reach the person managing the list at >>> joomla-ow...@lists.nyphp.org >>> >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >>> than "Re: Contents of joomla digest..." >>> >>> >>> Today's Topics: >>> >>> 1. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Fred Sullivan) >>> 2. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Mark Simko) >>> 3. Re: Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Mitch Pirtle) >>> 4. Re: joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 (Gary Mort) >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:04 -0400 >>> From: Fred Sullivan<f...@avdrive.com> >>> To: joomla@lists.nyphp.org >>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 >>> Message-ID: >>> <aanlkti=fph+__6shpf1zeehknizs3zmutf-jhwwdx...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>> >>> 2. Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective (Gary Mort) >>> >>> Amazing post, Thank You! I went to one day of the Drupal Camp NYC 2010 to >>> learn and observe. In the days before the camp installed local version and >>> created a test site. It had been a while since I had done that with Drupal. >>>> From an integrators perspective it is mature and elegant in it's coding, >>> documentation and user community a much higher percentage of the attendees >>> where actual coders/developers than at a equivalent Joomla event. But >>> compared to Joomla as far as getting up a basic site to do many things it >>> was much more time consuming and involved and takes a much higher technical >>> proficiency. It is reflected in the book shelf at say Barnes and Noble >>> almost all Drupal books are for developers, almost all Joomla books are end >>> designer and users manuals. >>> >>> Joomla's object oriented approach is much more advanced and abstract and >>> has been much more and it has been set up to be more designer and user >>> friendly thus there are more users less community. Drupal much more on basic >>> level programmer friendly for a beginning to average programmer. Joomla as >>> percentage has in number fewer coders and developers that participate in the >>> community but the ones that do are very advanced. The Joomla community needs >>> to work much harder at Joomla developer training of beginning and mid level >>> programmers to flourish. Drupal needs to work much harder at getting a >>> friendlier interface for designers and users probably by including more in >>> their core to grow their end user community. >>> >>> Fred Sullivan >>> @fredjet >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL:<http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20100730/3f536e2d/attachment-0001.html> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Message: 2 >>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:05:23 -0400 >>> From: Mark Simko<masi...@verizon.net> >>> To: joomla@lists.nyphp.org >>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 >>> Message-ID:<1280513123.6594.21.ca...@jersey> >>> Content-Type: text/plain >>> >>> >>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website? >>> >>> >>>> Message: 2 >>>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:21:59 -0400 >>>> From: Gary Mort<garyam...@gmail.com> >>>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla@lists.nyphp.org> >>>> Subject: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective >>>> Message-ID: >>>> <aanlktindy3jbpnjbdiosf1y15zfyatnmq3d+1fqi+...@mail.gmail.com> >>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Message: 3 >>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:06:36 -0400 >>> From: Mitch Pirtle<mitch.pir...@gmail.com> >>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla@lists.nyphp.org> >>> Subject: Re: [joomla] Joomla vs Drupal, a coders perspective >>> Message-ID: >>> <aanlktikblmkxajuz_en6g6ej8=zkyorcwiq=yxjcj...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >>> >>> To be fair, the whole "not invented here" syndrome is prevalent in the >>> web development world overall, and plagues a great many more projects >>> than just Joomla. >>> >>> I still think that completely sucks though. :-) >>> >>> -- Mitch >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> Message: 4 >>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:25:46 -0400 >>> From: Gary Mort<garyam...@gmail.com> >>> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla"<joomla@lists.nyphp.org> >>> Subject: Re: [joomla] joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 >>> Message-ID: >>> <aanlktikztfnspwh2o_pof=gpr_bprv=ueyw7djx6v...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mark Simko<masi...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Excellent! Gary, can you put this up on the JUG website? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I really want to clean it up a bit before posting it far and wide. :-) >>> >>> But I've been sitting on my thoughts for about a week and a half now after >>> doing a bunch of custom coding to get Ubercart to work the way I wanted it >>> to. One thing I found nice was that it was a HECK of a lot easier than >>> Virtuemart to customize...and a LOT more nicely integrated than Magento[in >>> fact, we are currently using Magento and it completely sucks] >>> >>> So I figured I'd let em out in case others had their own input on Drupal vs >>> Joomla.... terminology is a real b......i....t......c.......you know what. >>> Since both Drupal and Joomla have "modules" but they do completely >>> different things. Plugins in Joomla are self-documenting to an extent, >>> while hooks in drupal you need to lookup. The Joomla extensions directory, >>> for all my complaints, really shines while Drupal's you have to know what >>> your looking for more clearly. >>> >>> All in all.... I have a real appreciation for the power of Drupal....but I >>> still prefer Joomla. >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL:<http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/joomla/attachments/20100730/0a072956/attachment-0001.html> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> joomla mailing list >>> joomla@lists.nyphp.org >>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >>> >>> End of joomla Digest, Vol 43, Issue 18 >>> ************************************** >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! 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