Quick rant time - we're putting together a fairly large site in Drupal 5.x at the moment which has a bunch of menus. 

Most Open Source CMS' (incl both Drupal and Joomla) allow you to setup blog and list displays of content - which really aide in keeping the number of menu items down, but sometimes an aesthetic will require you to build out many menus - which can be confusing and time-taking to manage.

This is a prime situation which exemplifies simple but important differences between CMS' - Joomla's menu management system is a bit quirky because of ItemIDs and theme association but its waaaaay simpler to manage menu items in Joomla than Drupal because of the listed-view approach on the admin side, which allows you to select multiple items, delete them or move them to another menu in a bunch and assign access permissions - all things that Drupal's stock menu module don't afford.

Again - simple but so important!  Okay, I'm off to delete 30-odd menu items individually on this Drupal site now :( ... 

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written by Thomas Moseler, August 06, 2007

First congratulations to your open-mindedness - Joomla and Drupal should see themselves as brothers - one more beautiful and one more geeky (choose which is which, but I guess it's clear Well the menu module in Drupal leaves a lot to be desired, my present explanation is, that most people who use Drupal just don't employ a hierarchical menu. But: just go to the database and delete the menu items directly in myphpadmin. Works better. Well, just for deleting, but with a bit of looking which field does what, moving items more quickly should be possible, too. The database structure is quite human-readable.

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