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MikeTheVike
12-11-2007, 07:58 PM
I'm taking a look at it because a client is dead set on using it for their website...first impression is that it doesn't seem very user friendly. I was editing stuff and changing the look of a site using WordPress within minutes of installing that.
hewligan
12-11-2007, 08:10 PM
I've tried it briefly, and abandoned it quickly.
The whole thing seemed quite fragile. It was painful to use. The whole Nuke family has a terrible reputation for security. All up, best avoided.
If you need a proper CMS rather than just Wordpress, give Joomla a go. It's not the most powerful CMS out there, but it's extremely easy to use.
MikeTheVike
12-11-2007, 09:23 PM
I've tried it briefly, and abandoned it quickly.
The whole thing seemed quite fragile. It was painful to use. The whole Nuke family has a terrible reputation for security. All up, best avoided.
If you need a proper CMS rather than just Wordpress, give Joomla a go. It's not the most powerful CMS out there, but it's extremely easy to use.
I'm not sure why the client picked this cms, maybe they have someone that works for them who is familiar with it...I'll have to find out...
I'm fluent with html/css, but I have been playing with this most of the afternoon and I can't even find where to edit the "skin"!
hewligan
12-11-2007, 09:33 PM
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=PHP-Nuke_HOWTO&page=customization.html
But if you don't know PHP, you may want to look at Autotheme:
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=PHP-Nuke_HOWTO&page=php-nuke-autotheme.html
I've tried it briefly, and abandoned it quickly.
The whole thing seemed quite fragile. It was painful to use. The whole Nuke family has a terrible reputation for security. All up, best avoided.
If you need a proper CMS rather than just Wordpress, give Joomla a go. It's not the most powerful CMS out there, but it's extremely easy to use.
Joomla is great. I've just finished building a site in Joomla. Customizing it really tested my php knowledge though.
hewligan
12-11-2007, 11:13 PM
Joomla is great. I've just finished building a site in Joomla. Customizing it really tested my php knowledge though.
That really depends on how you want to customise it.
You can quite easily make a Joomla template without knowing anything about PHP - just copying the few lines of PHP you need to include. (Though if you do know PHP, there are plenty of ways you can improve your template with it).
Most functionality you're likely to want is available either in the core Joomla system or with extensions available from the Joomla site. Again, you don't need to know PHP. But if you do, it's relatively simple to write your own extensions.
You can do a huge amount with Joomla without knowing much if anything about PHP. You can do a lot more if you do know PHP.
Drazan
12-11-2007, 11:14 PM
phpNuke actually started from the core programing used in the early days of SlashDot. From that core the phpNuke project is basically one main developer who puts out the core code and then all the community tries to secure it.
phpNuke split into factions about 2003. I was part of the nuke community prior to that writing a bunch of the documentation for phpNuke as well as helping the theming community. My info got absorbed into the spaghetti brain project. :)
That said, do not ever use phpNuke. heh. I also learned that it is impossible for an application such as a CMS to be built securely by one person. Getting hacked over 11 times in 3 months with continuous patches pretty much killed the contributions for this application. I sill own pownuke.com as testiment to my early days of OpenSource.
PostNuke while often thought of the next gen of phpNuke, isn't. It started out as a branch of the phpNuke project, by a few who wanted to make phpNuke secure. Well after about 18months the whole thing was rewrote from the bottom up into a proper CMS with little to do with phpNuke other than basic over structure. It's been running on the new structure since 2004-ish. Very stable, very good components, and if there is a problem it is notified immediately on the front of the website. Though I definitely liked their old theme than this new "boxed" theme. ;)
Other gems have also branched from the phpNuke era, but I've yet to find any as secure as PostNuke, or other options.
My current two favorites is Expression engine (which is used on the Nike-Soccer website) and Joomla for easy efficiency in setting everything up quickly.
Jade
Open source developer since 1999 :D