To Nuke Me, or Not To....That is the Q

[Jonathan]

Who here uses PHP-Nuke? Mambo? PostNuke?
Basicly if you run an CMS, post it here so we can see

If you built your own, disgribe how it works so
we can sit here and drool over the mere thoughts of it

PHP-Nuke: Main Site, one personal, three clients ( WOW)
PostNuke: Tried on local system but never got to like it
Mambo: Loved it, but then I learned how to ACTUALLY work PHP-Nuke :P

Custom: Trying to build one, to centrally control various
things I've been building; my shout page, my news page, and
hopefully over the summer, my forums

So ~ what about you guys?

[-Oz-]

Custom all the way...

[Frank Hagan]

I hate them all. I have tried Nuke and Post-Nuke, Xoops, phpWebSite and, for a short time, Mambo.

[Pedja]

Tried them lot and decided to do my own...

[Jonathan]

Has anybody here actually built their own forums?
Even if not as fancy, nor as many features, as IPB & them, still....

[PropHet]

I'm a big php-nuke fan.

www.phenylshouse.com is my site.

I do have a friend who wrote his own forums. Pretty nice considering the challenge.

http://tkkclan.org/smb/

[Anthony]

I;ve tried alot of them. The Nukes, Typo3, phpwebsite, xoops, etc..etc... none of them I liked. Typo3 came close, but way too complicated.

I'm not into programming, so my site just sits there, emtpy until I find one I like

[PropHet]

I have been using Dreamweaver MX on my newest site. I don't know much about php or html but Dreamweaver makes it a lot easier.

[Pedja]

Has anybody here actually built their own forums?
Even if not as fancy, nor as many features, as IPB & them, still....

I am going to. Nothing fancy with minimal option, what is mostly needed for support site. If someone needs powerful forum, there are lots of solutions.

Main problem with available forums is they use their own user authentication so it is hart to integrate them with the site which is based on it's own user management. I hate the most when I am registered on site and then I have to register on forum separately couse they are not related to each other.

I think it should be a must for each standalone forum to offer ways to create and authenticate users from external user management system.

I have been using Dreamweaver MX on my newest site. I don't know much about php or html but Dreamweaver makes it a lot easier.

If you do not know HTML, not that you should not use DreamWeaver, but you should not create web sites at all.

[-Oz-]

Hehe pedja, I use Dreamweaver MX.

Of course i just use it because it does syntax highlighting for PHP code. Anyone know of a good php IDE?

[chrisd]

Anyone know of a good php IDE?

I like Dev-PHP

[Pedja]

Hehe pedja, I use Dreamweaver MX.

Of course i just use it because it does syntax highlighting for PHP code. Anyone know of a good php IDE?

I use it to. It is the best tool ever created but tjat is a tool that helps one who knows what he is doing to do it faster and easier, not to help ignorant create web sites. Front Page is created for such purpose.

One who wants to develope web sites must be able to do it using plain ASCII editor, even just Notepad.

About php tools, I tried few, looking for something that will help me debugging, but for now I find DW MX with test site option good enough.

[PropHet]

If you do not know HTML, not that you should not use DreamWeaver, but you should not create web sites at all.

That is the most retarded thing I have ever heard.

Just because I am learning how to write HTML and don't know much yet doesn't mean I should not make web sites at all.

[avenuex]

That is the most retarded thing I have ever heard.

Just because I am learning how to write HTML and don't know much yet doesn't mean I should not make web sites at all.

Nope.. of course not.

However, (and not directed at you particularly ) people should learn by doing HTML and not using any WSYWIG editing.. Thats just my $.02. I've had designers come to me to finish building up their sites (Adding scripts, cleaning the site, etc..) and some of the worst jobs I've ever done was those that used WSYWIG editors to create their site pages, drop their "mouseovers" , and drop off the pages to me to publish.

I used to think frontpage was the worst, but dreamweaver really comes a close second if you use the visual editor. Intricate tables upon tables, with line breaks and font tags everywhere..
ugh..

But of course, definately learn to create sites don't stop. Just realize that what however many layers of nested tables these "editors" make could probably be done with 1 table and a stylesheet.

=)

[Buddha]

WOW!! Didn't we just forget the topic? Oh even name calling! Such uncivilized behavior.

Has anybody here actually built their own forums?
Even if not as fancy, nor as many features, as IPB & them, still....

I did write something with a parent/child (i.e. thread) relationship once with a little work it could've been used as a forum.

NOW BACK ON TOPIC!