Don't miss the Article of the Century

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

http://nukecops.com/article-65-nested-0-0.html

The big guys from PHP-Nuke, PostNuke, Xaraya, and others in the whole community are having a great community discussion.

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 11:05 am

Thanks Zhen

-sting

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:07 pm

WOW!!
A few people had there opinion on that topic!!

Captain Joined: Oct 20, 2003 Posts: 335

This was fun read. Especially the parts about the history of nuke. My favorite quote:

Quote:

The real fact is that, you as user, have the power to get them all, test them and in the darkness select your favorite system to rule the world. - by Francisco Burzi

On one point I disagree these days: The biggest apparent php-nuke problem is not the documentation, its the upgrade process. Seems like any customization would be overwritten. Is there a popular coder method to prevent this?

It occurred to me that if all user changes were a seperate file... like 'changes.php' and included where necessary via line number or .....

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

I concur, and its something that I've been thinking about insofar as NC releases go.

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2003 7:48 pm

We need a decent RCS - that way as changes come out and you have local changes - you can choose to either : 1. Keep your changes 2. Merge your changes and the new changes or 3. Overwrite your changes with the new code...

Its not unheard of, I deal with it every time a new patch comes out for my administrative system at work...

-sting

Sergeant Joined: Apr 05, 2003 Posts: 94

If I might defer a certain portal that uses Perl....
The portal script contains a folder 'user' at root level, within that folder is basically a copy of all the site folders (no actual files).
At the beginning of every routine the code nips off (via a subroutine) to see if that routine is located within the appropriate subfolder within 'user' and if it finds one it uses it, otherwise carries on.
To expand further, say you have modified 'function menuimg($gfile)' in the navbar.php file under modules/Your_Account
the script runs off and checks to see if 'function menuimg($gfile) exists first under user/modules/Your_Account and if it does it runs that function rather than the one at root/modules/Your_Account

Something similar to this would also make it much easier to not only keep a track of all your changes/experiments but also makes 'fixes' easier to test as well. If a given fix doesnt work or screws the site, you can just delete it from the 'user' directory and you are back to the beginning.[/quote]

Elite Nuker Joined: Jan 31, 2003 Posts: 717

Does anybody knows something about 'Mambo CMS' ?

Just wondering.
I saw it somewhere and aI m trying to 'grasp' it.

Sorry I asked, there seems to something about it already.
like:
http://www.nukecops.com/postlite12828-mambo.html

Nuke Cops Founder Joined: Nov 14, 2002 Posts: 5939

Good question, I don't know about it either.