What is PHP-Nuke and why to use it?
by Tadas Talaikis
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What is PHP-Nuke?
PHP-Nuke is advanced content management system
(CMS) that have all the instruments inside to run
simple website or entire portal. It's a free
software abd can be found at
http://phpnuke.org.Normal hosts have autoinstallers for PHP-Nuke, so
you can install this system with a few clicks.
PHP-Nuke is constructed of modules. Standart
modules include:
À Downloads - downloads organized into categories,
users can submit their own downloads, include rate
form into their sites, vote for downloads, write
comments, report broken downloads...
À FAQ - frequently asked question organized into
categories...
À Feedback - visitors can submit comments on your
site...
À Forums - visitors can discuss topics you've
setup...
À Members List - gives list of all users with
links to their websites...
À News - this is module which organizes all your
news into topics and categories, users can comment
articles, vote for them, etc...
À Private Messages - this is for sending private
messages to other members...
À Recommend Us - visitors can recommend your site
to their friends...
À Search - search in all content, users, links,
downloads...
À Stories Archive - lists all news by date...
À Submit news - where users can submit their news
and articles...
À Surveys - you can add surveys to website or
articles...
À Top - lists top viewed, top voted, top commented
stories, top authors...
À Topics - lists all topics...
À Web Links - links organized into categories,
users can submit their own links, vote for them...
À Journal - users can open their own blog at your
site...
Francisco Burzi, father of PHPnuke, describes his
creation as follows:
PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System, storytelling
software, News system, online community or
whatever you want to call it. The goal of PHP-Nuke
is to have an automated web site to distribute
news and articles with users system. Each user can
submit comments to discuss the articles, just
similar to Slashdot and many others.
Main features include: web based admin, surveys,
top page, access stats page with counter, user
customizable box, themes manager for registered
users, friendly administration GUI with graphic
topic manager, option to edit or delete stories,
option to delete comments, moderation system,
Referers page to know who link us, sections
manager, customizable HTML blocks, user and
authors edit, an integrated Banners Ads system,
search engine, backend/headlines generation
(RSS/RDF format), and many, many more friendly
functions.
There are thousands of developers who can offer
you a lot of other modules. Actually all what you
can imagine can be included into PHP-Nuke. Really,
it's "the future of the web..."
Who can use PHP-Nuke?
Anyone can use it: businesses, information
websites etc...
Why to use PHP-Nuke?
By
http://spaghettibrain.com:À Because managing sites of great dimensions with
only static HTML pages is dangerous to your
health.
À Because through the dynamic pages the users can
interact (forum, private messages, surveys...)
À Because through the dynamic pages we can offer
value added services (restricted areas, various
services based on user classification...)
À Because the information is more easily
catalogued.
À Because with a few PHP pages we recall a lot of
information.
À Because keeping the contents up-to-date does not
demand particular technical expertise and can be
managed by anyone (by Davis Batistes).
À It is the simplest way to to pull over a
complete portal everything, then, thanks to its
open source engine, allows anyone to implement new
modules or to modify and to personalize existing
ones (by Micione, www.vizzani.net)
À It is very intuitive and easy to learn (by
Anonymous)
À It is easy to modify by those who intend to
personalize the program (By Arus)
À It is easy to use by the less experts among us.
À Google loves it (by www.zongoo.com)
For example, if I want all those features
(newsletter, recommend us, news system) I must
install separate scripts which are NOT integrated
between. Why to use them if I can install one
PHP-Nuke and then play with it, choose a lot of
available modules, blocks and themes, create or
modify them on my own?
Best regards,
Tadas Talaikis
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For his new project visit:
http://www.zongoo.comPopularity booster for websites through articles
and content finder for publishers (cobrands
available).
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