Great news on PHP-Nuke development
Date: Friday, February 20 @ 11:38:00 CET
Topic: PHP-Nuke


Francisco Burzi writes: Hello Nukers! I'm glad to announce the new direction that PHP-Nuke will follow from now in the development, distribution and usability. As many of you already know, two years ago the folks at MandrakeSoft started to bring to PHP-Nuke a great help for the project, which finished one year ago. I learned lot of stuff thanks to that partnership, one of it's results was the PHP-Nuke Club inspired by Mandrake Club. But this was just a way to get something back to dedicate in full time to the development of this nice CMS. Now, after two years, the Club started to be a reunion point and not only a place to get the latest versions. So, as a first step, the Club will be powered with many new stuff for all subscribers...

Also, and the most important point is that many people, like you, contributes with fixes, suggestions and ideas for future versions. Some of those ideas are very nice. Listening to many people in that 2 years period I collected many of those suggestions and created a plan for the future. so, here we go...

1) As mentioned, PHP-Nuke Club will get new material and new features.
2) The code cleanup will be started and in this process there will be some modules that are under a big revision and even total replacement, for example:

  • Some modifications to the Your Account module
  • Reorganization or a complete replacement of the Downloads and Web Links modules
  • General prioritization of some parts of the code, like removing unused code/blocks/modules
  • Sections module will be removed and replaced all its content to be used with Content module.
  • Advertising system will be completely replaced with a totaly new feature rich system with lots of features to manage the advertising in a more efficient way.
  • Revision and improvement of the Search module.
  • Revision and possibly change to the look and feel of News module (the most used one). I have some candidates module to replace it that will give to your site a more professional look.
  • I assembled a team of people here in my city to work on a complete Forums, Members List and Private Messages modules to replace phpBB with PHP-Nuke's own forums.
  • Revision and reorganization of blocks capabilities, like display a block in particular modules and some few fixes.
  • New auto-installation system, like the one included in a previous version of PHP-Nuke and removed due to the SQL layer change.
  • Reorganization of the administration interface/menus.
  • Revision to the comments system and start putting to work the moderation system.
  • Some more website control by the administrator.
  • Some modules will be removed like WebMail. Improvement to the FeedBack module to include departments and/or contacts.
  • Revision of all languages and translation system including a heavy test of one new translation system that is under development at this time.
  • CSS Style system designed to possibly replace the themes system used at this time.

    3) A new and exclusive sponsor offer to be included in the downloadable code.
    4) A new version check from the administration section. This because is important that anyone that uses PHP-Nuke be updated with the latest version due to security fixes, etc. Optionaly the feature should be turned off by the administrator.
    5) It's under plans a Windows client to be used as interface of your portal/community that connects directly to your site to get/send content. and finaly, in the near future, forums and comments will be reactivated on PHPNuke.org which is something all us, including myself, are missing.

    I hope that all these changes will put PHP-Nuke one step forward to the commercial portals solutions, there will be surprises as well, but all this is with the intention to put PHP-Nuke in the next level and to start attacking a totaly new territory not available for the average webmasters out there. So, here will start a very hard work by my side and with few good local programmers already contracted to work on PHP-Nuke's future under my direction.

    I think that a preliminary version of this new monster will be out in something around 3 months. Obviously any Alpha, Beta and Release Candidates will be available on the Club as soon as they are ready.

    Also, as many of you know, PHP-Nuke is now developed under Windows. This was thanks to the recent mess with Linux and Linux companies. I found myself alone with no one Linux distro that works for me and my favorite one Mandrake, announced a bad financial situation, which is changing at this time. If they really recovers from the situation and bring Linux a "real" future, I'll switch again my OS for PHP-Nuke's development. Hope this can happen soon. Let's see. In the meantime let me send thanks to Gael Duval, a great guy, and all MandrakeSoft people... you are doing a good job! Keep up!!!

    Thanks for your attention and have a very nice day!





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