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Fantastico can be excellent. If you have it, use it.
Could you imagine having to write this every week?
Click Joomla -- that's kinda a no-brainer
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Very good to have. Print it, file it. At some point you'll need this.
There are some good things about Fantastico. It's a script that does lots of the leg work for you. No DBs to create. No files to upload. Upgrading can be a simple click-click. What's not so great: You can't control the naming of your DBs. You don't always get the latest version. Upgrading can render your site trashed if you have other components installed that were not ready for the update. Summary: Fantastico is fantastic for new webmasters that want to try different open source products. If you're a serious developer, you would never use it.