PHP Nuke

[RFH Customer: AndyHearne]

Hello

I was just wondering, has anyone used PHP Nuke.

I'm considering giving my Doctor Who site an overhaul, just wondered what you all think.

I've tried to install PHP Nuke, though i get these errors.

Warning: main(mainfile.php) [function.main.php]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\doctorwhoworld.org.uk\wwwroot\cms\admin.php on line 30

Fatal error: main() [function.require.php]: Failed opening required 'mainfile.php' (include_path='.;C:\PHP5\php') in D:\doctorwhoworld.org.uk\wwwroot\cms\admin.php on line 30

This is on http://www.doctorwhoworld.org.uk/cms/admin.php


Is this an easy programme to use, it's just i've got 1000 or so pages I want to give for the upgrade. At present the site is in a template within Dreamweaver, though I have hot spots within some of the images, can a CMS support this.

Many thanks
Andrew

[RFH Reseller: Sol]

I personally have no experience with PHPNuke and hence can't / won't comment on it. However, I have experience with nearly all ASP.Net based CMS / Portal applications.

A content management system is very different to using a client based application with some templates.

I took the liberty of looking at a few pages on the current site to get an idea of what your requirements might be, and I think that you will find a CMS will be able to handle this although you may need to tweak things a bit. Typically a CMS allows you to dynamically add content pages either by dynamically designing the entire page or by placing a variety of modules on a page.

I believe PHPNuke to be somewhat similar to DotNetNuke in that it is module based (haven't checked, so could be wrong here). I, personally think the module based system will suit your usage better.

The tricky part is going to be your HotSpot based images, since in all CMS / Portal systems I have seen you would need to put the HTML code for the images into the page. The problem here is that the CMS / Portal will have dynamically created URL's for the content and hence you would need to create all the Content Pages for the image before adding it, so that you can correctly set each of the HotSpot URL's.

A fairly good trick to use for this in a Module based Portal / CMS is to use an IFrame module to display a static HTML file. You would then need to update this file everytime a content page URL changes, but it should be relatively simple.

I'm sure things in this area will improve (in ASP.Net we now have a HotSpot control for creating hotspots within images). However, I don't expect you would find this functionality in many CMS / Portal systems for sometime.

Something that I have been looking at is how Portals / CMS systems handle re-writing URLs, so that you could have http://www.doctorwhoworld.org.uk/Assistants/Ian as a 'friendly' url which gets dynamically converted to the actual absolute url.

If you decide to investigate any ASP.Net based applications feel free to ask me more in-depth questions.

[RFH Customer: AndyHearne]

Hi

Thanks. I'll look in to that too, it's mainly as I am planning on going back to LA in June and would be great to update when I'm there as well and that sounds great for hotspots.

One thing though, I get 30,000 visitors a month, can I disable visitor membership - as I know some people would find this tedious or would it be better for a more securer point of view?

I'm v new to doing this so it might take some time to set it up, but i'll run some test samples and see what you think

[RFH Reseller: Sol]

Yes you can disable user membership on most CMS packages. You'd just need to ensure the login controls are removed from the various pagesand that all content is visible by anonymous users.

However, it's probably better to keep user membership and eventually offer premium content only available when a user is registered, allowing you to track regular visitors.

[RFH Customer: AndyHearne]

K thanks. Sorry for posting in wrong forum, one of those days :crying:

[RFH Customer: Jon Freeman]

Hello

I was just wondering, has anyone used PHP Nuke.

I'm considering giving my Doctor Who site an overhaul, just wondered what you all think.

I've tried to install PHP Nuke, though i get these errors.

Warning: main(mainfile.php) [function.main.php]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in D:\doctorwhoworld.org.uk\wwwroot\cms\admin.php on line 30

Fatal error: main() [function.require.php]: Failed opening required 'mainfile.php' (include_path='.;C:\PHP5\php') in D:\doctorwhoworld.org.uk\wwwroot\cms\admin.php on line 30

This is on http://www.doctorwhoworld.org.uk/cms/admin.php

Have you got all the files in /cms/? I've tried index.php and mainfile.php and am getting 404s

I've never used this program or anything like it but I have just tried setting it up on one of my PCs and it I found the installation simple. The only problem I had was I was getting a message "Begone" when I tried to log into the admin pages. A look through the page revealed it did not like a space in my nickname (I just used "Jon Freeman"). I altered the database entry and all was fine.

As for ease of use, at a first glance, it looks to me to be straigtforward enough to use in terms of menus, etc. but I feel it would need (at least for me who has never used anything like it) a fair ammount of learning to get to grips with all the features.

[RFH Customer: AndyHearne]

K Thanks Jon I'll give it a go