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  • ianw
    #1

    php CMS

    Hello,
    I am looking to create a dynamic site for a local charity including
    regular news updates and a forum.
    I have dabbled in php and am interested in a php-based CMS.
    What is the relationship between php-nuke and postnuke?
    Are they both current, active systems?
    Do they both utilise phpBB?

    Many thanks,
    Skiffer
    Bonnie Scotland

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    • Colin McKinnon
      #2
      Re: php CMS

      ianw wrote:
      [color=blue]
      > Hello,
      > I am looking to create a dynamic site for a local charity including
      > regular news updates and a forum.
      > I have dabbled in php and am interested in a php-based CMS.
      > What is the relationship between php-nuke and postnuke?
      > Are they both current, active systems?
      > Do they both utilise phpBB?
      >[/color]

      There's lots and lots of CMS open-source PHP CMS out there. If *nuke come
      close to meeting your requirements then you're spoilt for choice.

      I like Mambo for its template system, etomite for its simplicity, Drupal for
      a platform where I need to do development. You might want to take a look at
      http://www.opensourcecms.com/ for some more opinions.
      [color=blue]
      > Many thanks,
      > Skiffer
      > Bonnie Scotland[/color]

      You could try asking at scotlug (#scotlug on freenode irc,
      www.scotlug.ork.uk, or come along to the meets in Glasgow at the end of
      each month)

      HTH

      C.

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        • Steve
          #3
          Re: php CMS

          "ianw" <ianwestley@cwc om.net> wrote in news:1144860114 .377261.45610
          @t31g2000cwb.go oglegroups.com:
          [color=blue]
          > Hello,
          > I am looking to create a dynamic site for a local charity including
          > regular news updates and a forum.
          > I have dabbled in php and am interested in a php-based CMS.
          > What is the relationship between php-nuke and postnuke?
          > Are they both current, active systems?
          > Do they both utilise phpBB?
          >
          > Many thanks,
          > Skiffer
          > Bonnie Scotland
          >
          >[/color]

          For a start off stay clear of phpnuke. its the most unsecure bag of crap
          ever. The developer does not care about the people who use it. It may
          have a big community but thats only because of the every day normal
          person who us it try together to get it secure and working properly. If
          i was you I would look else where ... there are lots of php based CMS
          that use phpBB as a back end.

          or try this one http://www.squirrels-project.co.uk

          Its a new CMS thats due to be released very soon and has a demo site for
          you to play with AND its free

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            • Steve
              #4
              Re: php CMS

              "ianw" <ianwestley@cwc om.net> wrote in news:1144860114 .377261.45610
              @t31g2000cwb.go oglegroups.com:
              [color=blue]
              > Hello,
              > I am looking to create a dynamic site for a local charity including
              > regular news updates and a forum.
              > I have dabbled in php and am interested in a php-based CMS.
              > What is the relationship between php-nuke and postnuke?
              > Are they both current, active systems?
              > Do they both utilise phpBB?
              >
              > Many thanks,
              > Skiffer
              > Bonnie Scotland
              >
              >[/color]

              For a start off stay clear of phpnuke. its the most unsecure bag of crap
              ever. The developer does not care about the people who use it. It may
              have a big community but thats only because of the every day normal
              person who us it try together to get it secure and working properly. If
              i was you I would look else where ... there are lots of php based CMS
              that use phpBB as a back end.

              or try this one http://www.squirrels-project.co.uk

              Its a new CMS thats due to be released very soon and has a demo site for
              you to play with AND its free

              -------------
              Get FREE newsgroup access from http://www.cheap56k.com

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                • fletch
                  #5
                  Re: php CMS

                  phpbb has it problems too! I would chose something else.

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                    • Dana Cartwright
                      #6
                      Re: php CMS

                      "ianw" <ianwestley@cwc om.net> wrote in message
                      news:1144860114 .377261.45610@t 31g2000cwb.goog legroups.com...[color=blue]
                      > Hello,
                      > I am looking to create a dynamic site for a local charity including
                      > regular news updates and a forum.
                      > I have dabbled in php and am interested in a php-based CMS.
                      > What is the relationship between php-nuke and postnuke?
                      > Are they both current, active systems?
                      > Do they both utilise phpBB?[/color]

                      I just went through this exercise. It's not easy.

                      There are hundreds of php-mySQL CMS's.

                      I looked at typo3, but even their premier demo sites locked up or crashed.
                      Didn't give me much confidence.

                      phpNuke seems to have a bad reputation (as has been noted here) on several
                      fronts (security, attitude).

                      I spent a lot of time with Mambo and Joomla (there is a bunch of politics
                      surrounding the split). They certainly work, have large user communities,
                      and lots of "3rd party" stuff.

                      I settled on Joomla, mostly because it does what I want (CMS + Community
                      Builder + forum, all nicely integrated).

                      But the PHP code in Mambo/Joomla is scary. These guys never heard of
                      writing code in short modules. They write for page upon page, with
                      indentation that reaches halfway across the page. And their indentation
                      seems as much random as anything else. Not a comment in sight. Functions
                      typically start with a couple of dozen "global" statements.

                      And the HTML they spit out is impossible to properly style with CMS. The
                      authors seem unaware of the distinction between markup and styling. It's
                      all <tables> and <br>.

                      If anybody knows of a CMS that is well written, and that permits fluid
                      layouts, I'd love to hear about it.

                      Having said all that, I'm going ahead with Joomla, and to its credit, it
                      does work, and it's not hard to use.

                      -Dana


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