Posted by Dana Cartwright on 04/13/06 14:54

"ianw" <ianwestley@cwcom.net> wrote in message
news:1144860114.377261.45610@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
> I am looking to create a dynamic site for a local charity including
> regular news updates and a forum.
> I have dabbled in php and am interested in a php-based CMS.
> What is the relationship between php-nuke and postnuke?
> Are they both current, active systems?
> Do they both utilise phpBB?

I just went through this exercise. It's not easy.

There are hundreds of php-mySQL CMS's.

I looked at typo3, but even their premier demo sites locked up or crashed.
Didn't give me much confidence.

phpNuke seems to have a bad reputation (as has been noted here) on several
fronts (security, attitude).

I spent a lot of time with Mambo and Joomla (there is a bunch of politics
surrounding the split). They certainly work, have large user communities,
and lots of "3rd party" stuff.

I settled on Joomla, mostly because it does what I want (CMS + Community
Builder + forum, all nicely integrated).

But the PHP code in Mambo/Joomla is scary. These guys never heard of
writing code in short modules. They write for page upon page, with
indentation that reaches halfway across the page. And their indentation
seems as much random as anything else. Not a comment in sight. Functions
typically start with a couple of dozen "global" statements.

And the HTML they spit out is impossible to properly style with CMS. The
authors seem unaware of the distinction between markup and styling. It's
all <tables> and <br>.

If anybody knows of a CMS that is well written, and that permits fluid
layouts, I'd love to hear about it.

Having said all that, I'm going ahead with Joomla, and to its credit, it
does work, and it's not hard to use.

-Dana

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