Jtemplate is the first step towards Joodr,It aims at allowing usage of vast number of premium joomla templates with drupal with minimal effort. It is basically a set of Drupal Module and a templating Engine based on phptemplate. The idea is to allow the use of Joomla templates on Drupal as good templates for drupal are missing, drupal templating is expensive and few premium template providers who are there charge really high.Currently you just need to upload the template to the themes directory and just create a dummy template_name.infofile in the directory and the rest everything is taken care by Jtemplate.
Currently a lot of work is still remaining but here are a few features -
- Drupal 6 supported
- Joomla 1.5 templates compatible
- Little to no changes required to Joomla templates
- Support for Template params and Template styes from admin
- Effects and Suckerfish menus supported
- Tested with premium templates from some providers.
Anyhow will be releasing the download soon , am looking for people to help me improve it for now.As everything does not work 
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You can check a demo here – http://joodr.org/demo/ . The demo is running plain Drupal 6.5 with Jtemplate installed. The template is from rocketheme , with no changes or editing done .
Here is an alpha release as im not getting time to work on it , this is meant for people comfortable with drupal and know what they are doing.
Downloads: 747 File Size: 438.4 KiB
Upload the site structure in the zip file and enable jtemplate module in the admin. To create menus use joomla like names mainmenu,footer,usermenu etc for drupal menu name. Also make the default drupal theme as admin theme from settings.
I have been building sites for a long time. and have user both drupal and Joomla , even built a lite version of Joomla called Limbo CMS long time back. They are both quite good CMS’s. Given the two I would choose drupal any day for myself ( though would never recommend it , cause its still not easy to make it do what u want ) , but am no designer and drupal templates are a big let down, though not hard but templating drupal is just a pain. And template wise Joomla simply is Awesome ( the quality of premium templates available is just so good ) , and its easier to work with for not so technically inclined.
And i have been looking for a good social networking script since last year , and having looked far and wide from paid scripts like phpfox,handshakes,socialengine etc to free ones like Dolphin(not really free),elgg,phpizabi,Joomla+CB. Most of them are really bad and nothing i would build a big site on , its just that bad. There is hope in hosted platforms like ning,socialgo,colletivex but they are hosted , never recommended for anything serious. The only good social networking platform out there is Drupal – has everything i need from scalabilty , security , documentation etc . But again the base install requires hours of tweaking to make it look anything like a normal social script.
So my after taking a few months off from freelancing , ive decided to work on a new personal project called Joodr. It aims to be something like ning but free, based on drupal so that its as flexible,scalable,secure and use Joomla 1.5 templates so your sites look awesome without much effort. The name Joodr i simpley got from Joomla + Drupal , though its a basically a customized install profile of Drupal.
Work has started so keep reading for further updates !!! And if you have any ideas and suggestions let them flow.
