[mccollin]

Originally Posted by m002.p

Well thanks for the essay but that was a simple mistake "CMS" instead of "CMPS". Furthermore I didnt think it warranted such a response as that is off topic and irrelevant.

I may be wrong but this topic is named Vbadvanced VS other portal systems. It wasnt named Vbadvanced vs Vbulletin CMS? LOL

Glad you think my reply was funny and off topic.

The title of the topic is actually "vbDrupal vs. vbAdvanced vs. vbPortal vs. Joomla ", not "vbAdvanced VS other portal systems". Since two of those products are in the CMS category (and the first one in particular), your use of the acronym CMS was taken for what it was. The six replies prior to yours were specifically talking about vbDrupal which is a CMS. Replacing "CMS" in your reply with "CMPS" doesn't even make any since because CMPS is a product name, not a category of software. Of course vBadvanced is the "Only one worthy of being a CMPS.", because its product name is CMPS. So I think its fair for me to have assumed originally that you intended CMS for its real definition. Your original statement was that vBadvanced was the "only" one in the list of four "worthy" of being called a CMS. In fact, Joomla and vbDrupal are the only ones in the list worthy of being called a CMS. The others are not. So that was the motivation for my reply, and explanation.

It amazes me that people come to forums to supposedly discuss things and learn, and when someone corrects a statement, they get accused of being "off topic" and laughed at. Based on the following replies to mine, there is confusion on the term CMS and so there was value in my reply. This is how people learn... by sharing their views on something. It would have been nice if you just replied back that you meant "CMPS", not "CMS", rather than attacking my post.

Now, if its OK, I'd like to add something to the vbDrupal discussion that was going before.

I've been testing vbDrupal for a few days now. Its interesting that the Drupal template files have been moved into the vBulletin template system. I'm not quite sure how they are doing it, but it seems to work pretty well. You can readily swap between this "defaultangy" template which uses the vBulletin template system, and the normal Drupal templates that have nothing to do with vBulletin. This gives a lot of flexibility. I would like to understand better how this works exactly because it may introduce some limitations. I know one thing is that I've struggled with my forum templates for some time with incompatibilities between Firefox and IE, and now I'm right back into that with defaultangy. I was hoping to have a clean fresh start. Does anyone know if its possible to pull the defaultangy template information out of defaultangy and put it in a separate Drupal skin, once its generated? Then I could severe the connection in the templates, but have them starting in the same place. My problem now is some of the classes that are used in this I can't easily change because the change may not work right in all the places the class is used in vBulletin. Not sure if that makes sense or not. Anyone tried to do that?