Alternatives to PHP Nuke

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Techx

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A few weeks ago I put a few hours of work into PHP nuke just to have some type of content management on my site, and after talking to several people it seems like everyone hates nuke and is telling me to get rid of it. I think its 'ok' but i'm a newb to this stuff anyway, what do you guys recommend as an alternative to php-nuke? I've seen a few different ones online like http://www.xoops.org/ and http://www.xaraya.com/ but I have no experience with them or if they are good.

Thx
 
its not that people dislike php nuke, its that all nuke sites look alike. they don' t have originality or 'flair'. If you code a really sweet theme for it, phpnuke would be fine. otherwise, think about if you really need a CMS for your site. i thought i did and then realized i could get away with just a simple blog program. faster, easier, looks nice. think about it.

that said, of those two xaraya at least looks different. could try that. or look on hotscripts, they have lots of different stuff.
 
phpmywebsite (something like that)
drupal
go to sourceforge.net and search for content mnagement
or go to freshmeat.net and search for content management.
have fun installing many diff apps till you find one you like!
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be prepared to do some work if you want it to 'look cool' with most any of these other systems. php nuke is designed to be easy, but every site looks the same :(
 
I say just code your own, you can't imagine how much you learn by writing your own.

My site is eventually going to be released as a lite-CMS but it takes a lot of time to do.
 
Originally posted by MotionBlur
I say just code your own, you can't imagine how much you learn by writing your own.

My site is eventually going to be released as a lite-CMS but it takes a lot of time to do.
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a big ditto.

i tried php nuke a while back but 1) i have absolutely no need for it 2) it had more than i did need/want 3) it didn't look great

i've since made and have been continually working on my cms. some of it is based on ideas from php nuke but it's mostly written from scratch.

i really don't need a cms in the first place since my site is so small but it 1) makes it easier to update 2) taught me lots about php mysql and programming in general which is really important for me as a comp sci major. it's really the whole if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself (of course that doesn't quite apply to everythin, like i don't know, tv's)

i'm considering eventually publishing my cms but it's nowhere near ready for such things yet

http://zero.servequake.com
 
thanks for the feedback, but I'm more into 3d gfx work, modelling, mapping, etc and do not want to put the massive amount of time it will take to learn how to hand code a site from scratch, so either I use something like nuke or some other cms or make a simple html site which would probably look worse than any of it.

thx
 
Well there is POST-Nuke but it essentially looks the same as PHP-Nuke. I like it better though. And my website happens to be POST-Nuke but I made my own theme in The Gimp after playing with one of the default generic one. Overall it is somewhat overkill for my website, but I try to use as many features as I possibly can. I find myself updating it much less than I originally indended, but it is still fun to play with all of the features, although the backend of my website relies on much more than simply POST-Nuke...


Definately check-out http://www.opensourcecms.com/ if you are looking for another CMS solution. There are tons that you can test-drive with Admin privilages. You might just find one that you like. And no worries about messing something up, since all of these demos refresh every hour on the hour so all changes or mess-ups are lost and it becomes default once again.
 
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thanks for the feedback, but I'm more into 3d gfx work, modelling, mapping, etc and do not want to put the massive amount of time it will take to learn how to hand code a site from scratch, so either I use something like nuke or some other cms or make a simple html site which would probably look worse than any of it.

thx
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I do 3d gfx programming as well, having database programming experience for 3d games is really benificial in order to maintain all the game objects
 
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