[Alpha 1.5.4] phpNuke Integration 0.2

[lilb]

well [Unknown], looks like ya got a boatload of folks supporting ya, huh?  This is something that many of us have been waiting for, for what may seem like eons.  

When ya do finally finish, you'll be the hero of millions!  

[jack-uk]

Unknown, you must be prescient .. only days after doing yabbse/coppermine integration, the peeps on my board only go & throw in PHP Nuke as well

* jack-uk saw more sleepless nights writing integration stuff

Now I've gotta figure out how PHPNuke works now  

[lilb]

Jack - PHPNuke is da BOMB!!  it's also relatively easy to administer...and with a YaBBSE integrated into it, well, life just wont be able to get any better than that!  

[groundup]

Jack - PHPNuke is da BOMB!!

please don't ever say that again. Nuke sites are the reason why the internet is flooded with crappy sites and people thinking they are experts in fields where they have no knowledge (HTML, programming, SQL, etc). I have 100x more expertise than 99.9% of them and I still don't consider myself an expert/guru/advanced person in those fields.

* groundup runs to the bathroom to wash his mouth out with soap after using so many 'potty-words' such as Nuke and PHPNuke

[Nerd3d]

Is's not *nukes fault that the net is flooded with crappy sites. I've seen plenty of crappy sites that weren't *nuke sites and some really fine sites running *nuke.

The real problem is the lack of skill you mentioned.

I blame lame WYSIWYG development tools that generate poor/proprietary code for the code blight on the net. If they only knew the most important site on the net, w3.org

[groundup]

nope.. I am pretty sure nukes have atleast 50% of the blame

[BiErLeEuW]

I think i will wait for 1.6.0 because it says it would be possible with a portal template

[lilb]

Nuke sites are the reason why the internet is flooded with crappy sites and people thinking they are experts in fields where they have no knowledge (HTML, programming, SQL, etc).

Sorry, but I have to disagree with ya, groundup...It isnt the fault of the script, but rather of the script administrators...Ya can't blame a script for having no sense of fashion or for the ill-conceived contents within the domain itself.  The script does it's job as perfectly as it was written to do...

Just think...with a nuke, at least people can present a half-way decent site that is consistantly themed throughout, which is much more deal-able than say, a site that you might find in the hometowns of aol, or yahoo...or geocities...now ya wanna talk no html knowledge, and some gods awful lookin sites!  Just take a tour of these places..lol!

I have 100x more expertise than 99.9% of them and I still don't consider myself an expert/guru/advanced person in those fields.

Well, personally I've found that not having this sort of expertise is mostly why people are using the nuke script.  "Insta-Site in a Box!" is what I've become fond of calling it...and because its soooo easily installed and administered, people without a clue are just flocking to use it.

I'm a FAR cry from an expert/guru but I tend not to look down on those that are even less educated or web savvy. than me...every newbie has to start somewhere, and if I have opportunity to help in furthering their knowledge, I'm more than glad to help out and share what I know.  Especially when the end result of that sharing turns out to be a site that isnt quite as hideous as it coulda been...lol!

[David]

every newbie has to start somewhere, and if I have opportunity to help in furthering their knowledge, I'm more than glad to help out and share what I know.  Especially when the end result of that sharing turns out to be a site that isnt quite as hideous as it coulda been...lol!

Amen to that

[Topiatic]

Hi,

First of all cudos Lilb.

Second... would it be all that difficult to make this work with PostNuke as well?

Thnx in advance.

[groundup]

Isn't postnuke perl? I would think it would be slightly harder

[Worzel]

No PostNuke is PHP too and in my opinion it's better   . This is a great idea keep up the good work.  

[[Unknown]]

Alright, long story short - I'm parched for time and won't be able to work on this for a little while.

But, my plans are:
- include a default template that looks okay in phpNuke.
- look at postNuke and see if I can do one for that.
- figure out which version of phpNuke this mod requires.
- figure out some method of profile shadowing...
- coregistration - auto-register in both places.
- check if phpBB converter can be used to convert existing posts/topics/boards.

-[Unknown]

[jack-uk]

- figure out some method of profile shadowing...
- coregistration - auto-register in both places.

I've started looking at this aspect (to be honest, I'm not too fussed about running Yabbse as a module, I just want 'single sign-on'. If I get it going in any reasonable time, I'm more than happy to donate it to your mod if you want, Unknown.

However, PHPNuke seems a lot more confusing code-wise thatn yabbse - is it just me, or are there no less than three authentication routines (admin, user & forum) ?

Does anyone know where I can get an overview of what does what in the code, or am I just gonna have to go through the hard slog of figuring it out ?

[[Unknown]]

Single signon - that's this mod.  It does it already.  If that's what you're doing, you're too late .

-[Unknown]