PHP Nuke

SFADuncan · 21st July 2003, 06:36 PM

I've come across a product called PHP Nuke - seems to supply all that I require (I was thinking of reinventing the wheel).

Does anyone reading this use it? Any advice before I install it? The reason is that within the Config instructions, it says at some point that I'm to go to:

http://yourdomain.com/admin.php

Well - this is where our wonderful United/Ensim control panel resides. So what should I do? Install PHP Nuke within another directory? (Will it work within another directory?) Or should I just rewrite the files so that admin2.php (for example) exists?

Simon

UH-Matt · 21st July 2003, 07:00 PM

Either of your suggestions would work. We installed this forum in a directory so the /admin would work correctly

cotsint · 21st July 2003, 07:05 PM

PHP-Nuke is a well behaved CMS, so it will fit in another directory eg. "yoursite.com/web/" for instance...
at your root index.php you should put:
<?php

Header("Location: web/index.php");
die();

?>
And this should be all...
Be careful because has some tricky things, specially when it comes to multilingual sites...
Good luck!

cotsint · 21st July 2003, 07:24 PM

PHP-Nuke is a well behaved CMS, so it will fit in another directory eg. "yoursite.com/web/" for instance...
at your root index.php you should put:
<?php

Header("Location: web/index.php");
die();

?>
And this should be all...
Be careful because has some tricky things, specially when it comes to multilingual sites...
Good luck!

SFADuncan · 21st July 2003, 11:38 PM

Wow... PHPNuke, great product, but not what I was expecting really... I was hoping to be able to gain much of this functionality but within my own site which I'm designing (currently here: www.ealingcommon.co.uk/site).

Unless I haven't discovered it yet, PHPNuke seems fairly inflexible from a design and front-end point of view... although i haven't mastered the Blocks section yet... am I wrong or should I persevere?

Simon

leafish_paul · 21st July 2003, 11:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by SFADuncan
PHPNuke seems fairly inflexible...

You could always try Land Down Under, which is extremely flexible, and is completely customisable. I have not had experience with PHPNuke, thoough, so don't know how they'd compare. A mate of mine swears by LDU, though.

cotsint · 22nd July 2003, 08:56 AM

Quote:

PHPNuke seems fairly inflexible from a design and front-end point of view...

In PHP-Nuke you can define your own themes for your site, as well as the built in themes it comes with.
For that you need only to create a new subdirectory under the "themes" directory and change the "theme.php" and "style/style.css" for your new layout.
Check the NukeNews theme for a good example.
If you need to have only one layout for your site, you can simply delete the other themes directories and it wont ask to select the theme to your users again.
Once again, if you're new to PHP / MySQL development, it can be a little tricky to go change a theme or create a new one...
As for multilingual sites you will find some bad and misfunctioning approaches...
But is still a good content management, as well as a good learning base for medium level PHP developer...

sticky · 23rd July 2003, 10:53 AM

If you do stick with Nuke you might want to try Post-Nuke, from what I understand it tends to be a bit more supported.

I'm currently in the early stages of customizing a Nuke install which you can view here http://falcon.xssl.net/~sone.org.uk/ if you'd like to see something 'real' as it were to gauge your decision on.

SFADuncan · 23rd July 2003, 11:08 AM

Yes, that looks nice... maybe I've been a little hasty. I was just worried that i was going to spend hours attempting to customise PHPNuke only to find out that I can't get it to look like the site (which I mentioned above) which I've already spent time designing. But based on feedback, product features and it's general pervasiveness I think it may be worth the work. (Quicker than writing something new myself)

thanks

Simon

UH-Matt · 23rd July 2003, 11:33 AM

Sticky,

That site has a broken link in the footer. The link to sticky new media doesnt start with http so the browser attempts to load:

http://falcon.xssl.net/~sone.org.uk/...3f2f8cb28e5ebc

sticky · 23rd July 2003, 11:40 AM

{grins}

Thanks Matt

jmfemedia · 23rd July 2003, 12:12 PM

I have used PHP Nuke before but never really liked it that much, I find more enjoyment in creating sites from scratch rather than using a portal system.

The only site I have with a portal is the one I did for www.digitaldesktops.org and that uses a vbulletin portal system.

SFADuncan · 23rd July 2003, 06:45 PM

Yeah, that's nice too...

I'm just worried that I'm gonna waste hours and hours playing with PHPNuke and not manage to get it to operate without making major design changes to my site www.ealingcommon.co.uk/site (not yet live), which I'm unwilling to do. (and my site design, afterall, is only partially 'portallish').

However, having explored further (based on above comments (Cotsint)) I do acknowledge that there is flexibility playing with the themes. So, upon my return from holiday, I'll spend a couple of days playing before i decide to reinvent the wheel.

Simon

ernst · 24th July 2003, 10:56 AM

You might want to check out www.hotscripts.com for lots and lots of alternatives for php nuke ...

SFADuncan · 24th July 2003, 01:59 PM

yeah... that's actually where i discovered nuke... great site!