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An Introduction to PHP Nuke

Based on the PHP scripting language and supported by MySQL database, PHP Nuke provides a web based automated news publishing and content management system. As an open source software released under a GNU public license, it allows for free downloaded and installation.

You can use this software to create a weblog or use it just as a CMS. PHP Nuke allows the editors as well as the users to eas Content Management Systems ily post contents and create comments threads.

PHP Nuke theme manager

There is an advantage of PHP Nuke in being an open source project—-Because PHP Nuke is open source, there is a large community of developers who work on the PHP Nuke theme modifications. In addition to that the flow of free PHP Nuke Modules, free PHP Nuke Add-ons and free PHP Nuke Templates never seem to end. An efficient PHP Nuke web host will help you to customize your site with free PHP Nuke themes.

How your web host can help you in this regard?

Choosing the right PHP Nuke web host is important in case you want to switch from one theme to another, because only then you get access to a really striking collection of PHP Nuke themes.

Then, PHP Nuke web hosting requires a complex combination of web hosting hardware and software. In the absence of this criterion, you are not going to get access to your desired themes. In order to change the theme, you should be connected to a theme archive, from where you have to download it to your web server.

A PHP Nuke tutorial can provide you with good resource for learning about the theme changing process. PHP Nuke is backed up by a huge supporting community and as such finding the add- ons like PHP Nuke themes is not at all hard. These tutorials will provide you with the step by step guide of how to change your PHP Nuke theme.

Content management systems—-these days you find them in stacks—well, almost. But few of them are user friendly in the true sense of the term. But you can not bring this allegation against PHP Post Nuke content/ interactive portal management system, you certainly can not.

Started as one of the forks of PHP Nuke, PHP Post Nuke is undoubtedly the more stable and more secure content management solution. By the virtue of being open source, it supports a far more democratic developers’ community and that gets reflected in its feature list and modules. If the user’s perspective is the best way of judging the merit of any product, then you get a rather long list of praise-worthy features from the horse’s mouth. Here is just the gist of them:

• Under the GPL license you can download the application easily and step-by-step and for free.

• It provides you the easiest solution for setting up a site that allows for community posting, internal messages system between users, ability to publish News articles, post comments against articles, display of messages to specific groups on the site, review anything, search your site for a specified word or phrase.

• It is also provided with Permissions control feature that allows certain members access to add downloads, but not administrate any other part of the website. This feature also makes it possible to create a subscriber based website where subscribers are entitled to receive added functionalities.

• It also allows the user to control the look and feel of the site through a flexible and user friendly theme system. This can be done by changing HTML and not PHP code.

• The system comes with built in catching resulting into higher speed for your web site and better value for money for the end users.

• The compliancy to W3C guidelines enables the users to get maximum out of your site on their browsers.

• The banners module helps the clients of your website get the click counts, and logins for their banner ads placed on the website.

• What the site-owners find most encouraging about PHP Post Nuke is its large support and developer’s community spread across the world. Thus bugs are fixed and problems are solved at the speed of lightning and thus the end users are served with flawless internet experience.

The success of your website depends on traffic and volume of traffic depends on what the end users get from your site. As such, A PHP Post Nuke site is a surefire way of pulling traffic to your site. But for that first you have to make sure that your web hosting account supports the PHP- Nuke system.

At certain point of its evolution, fixing bugs had become rather procrastinate affair for the PHP Nuke developers. This slow process frustrated some programmers who decided to fork PHP Nuke and that were what led to churning out of this software called PHP Post Nuke.

The fact that Post Nuke is the fork of PHP Nuke doesn’t necessarily mean that the Post Nuke version is very similar to PHP Nuke. Both of them are content management solution for interactive, community driven websites, but the latter is different at the core with its greater emphasis on better stability and enhanced security.

But it can’t be concluded with conviction which is better. For that we have to go through their respective points of strengths and weaknesses.

Both are good for the purpose of news article publication. But PHP Nuke makes for a better choice as it has a larger numbers of modules. But so far as working in a business or corporate environment is concerned, the Post Nuke version delivers better performance, as the other one is geared more toward the average end user.

On the other hand, the feature of permission system is one of the major pillars of strength for the Post Nuke—this feature translates into limited access for general group or a specific user to particular module and area of your site.

This strict permission system makes the Post Nuke more focused to the needs of e-commerce and corporate environments. Through the permissions system it is possible to create groups which in turn can use the permission system to add sub groups. Thus you can accept for your commercial site the moderators which can help in managing your site without allowing access to admin.

Thus Xanthia Theme Engine, PostCalendar, NukeOWL, PNphpBB2 are some of the Post Nuke modules that are popular among commercial users.

Then comes the important question of security. It is often claimed that, Post Nuke is more secure than the PHP Nuke; but experts claim they both are equally vulnerable to professional hackers. While Post Nuke takes a little longer to be cracked open, the PHP Nuke is bit faster to fall prey in the hands of the hackers. What is important is: both of the software has come a long way from their earliest version and both of them have been able to overcome their previous security vulnerabilities.

However, some web masters are rather dissatisfied with the pace at which the Post Nuke is growing; the new versions are released so frequently that even experienced programmers some times lose the track of the development.

However, the issue of customization is better dealt with Post Nuke system; an easy to use theme system including CSS support allows the webmaster to customize all aspects of the website’s appearance and arrangement of the contents. And that is also by changing HTML and not disturbing the PHP code.

Thus both PHP Nuke and PHP Post Nuke have their respective advantages and limitations. This is here where the discretion of the web host counts; he should help his client to select between the two—a PHP Nuke site or a PHP post Nuke site—-depending on the nature of the website.