Avoid Mambo (now Joomla for the up-to-date version) like the plague. It’s the most user hostile piece of crap I’ve ever come across.
PHPNuke can apparently be hacked, and has a lot of information about being hacked, but I only knew about that sort of thing early last year, so things could’ve changed.
Drupal’s OK - well, depending on what you want, of course - but it’s OK in general.
PHPNuke is looking most favourable because it seems to integrate with phpBB quite well. I’ll investigate the hacking issue.
*Seriously, I’m not sure yet. I’m messing around with some stuff for a WoW “guild” website and also would like to add some knowledge to my sadly depleted skillbank. What it’s not for is blogging.
The only one I have experience with is Drupal. It’s a strange beast and I’m not sure if I recommend it; not very intuitive but fairly powerful. Not as good to mod as other things I’ve tried.
phpBB integration is possible but I wouldn’t really trust it, although its own forum is so bad that it might be worth it.
Only yesterday I was considering starting a guild website in it though. I think our crazy new outfit on TVC could do with breaking out of its current home.
Read a book. Drink a glass of fine wine. Go for a long walk. Enjoy a sunset. Stay up for the sunrise.
*gets coat*
(and yes, just hiding the fact that I’ve heard of these things but have NO IDEA and can’t offer anything constructive to this thread… but I know how you hate it when no-one comments so I’m compensating, badly).
I've got a thing about films. Not in a weird way; I just watch a lot of them, try to write them and sometimes make them. I talk about them here. Sometimes I talk about other things too but mostly it's films. Or running.
Depends what it’s for…
Comment by pixeldiva — September 27, 2006 @ 12:47 am
Avoid Mambo (now Joomla for the up-to-date version) like the plague. It’s the most user hostile piece of crap I’ve ever come across.
PHPNuke can apparently be hacked, and has a lot of information about being hacked, but I only knew about that sort of thing early last year, so things could’ve changed.
Drupal’s OK - well, depending on what you want, of course - but it’s OK in general.
Comment by Lyle — September 27, 2006 @ 10:04 am
Cheers guys.
Um… it’s for managing content.*
PHPNuke is looking most favourable because it seems to integrate with phpBB quite well. I’ll investigate the hacking issue.
*Seriously, I’m not sure yet. I’m messing around with some stuff for a WoW “guild” website and also would like to add some knowledge to my sadly depleted skillbank. What it’s not for is blogging.
Comment by Dragon — September 27, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
Also, look at Subdreamer - which does have integration with not just phpBB but vBulletin and a bundle of others.
It’s a bit numptified, but it’s fairly good all round.
Mambo does integrate with phpBB too, but it’s a deeply hacked version, and Mambo still sucks the farts out of dead cats.
Comment by Lyle — September 27, 2006 @ 2:29 pm
Sorry, forgot the link to SubDreamer.
(And yes, I do have a set of the files you can borrow/use, if you want - just drop me a line…)
Comment by Lyle — September 27, 2006 @ 2:31 pm
SubDreamer looks good - shame it needs to be purchased. Something to consider for possible future use however.
Comment by Dragon — September 27, 2006 @ 8:57 pm
Like I said. Mail me, and you may find something beneficial in your inbox over t’weekend…
Comment by Lyle — September 28, 2006 @ 9:00 am
The only one I have experience with is Drupal. It’s a strange beast and I’m not sure if I recommend it; not very intuitive but fairly powerful. Not as good to mod as other things I’ve tried.
phpBB integration is possible but I wouldn’t really trust it, although its own forum is so bad that it might be worth it.
Only yesterday I was considering starting a guild website in it though. I think our crazy new outfit on TVC could do with breaking out of its current home.
Comment by QE — September 28, 2006 @ 4:16 pm
Alternatives?
Read a book. Drink a glass of fine wine. Go for a long walk. Enjoy a sunset. Stay up for the sunrise.
*gets coat*
(and yes, just hiding the fact that I’ve heard of these things but have NO IDEA and can’t offer anything constructive to this thread… but I know how you hate it when no-one comments so I’m compensating, badly).
Comment by Gordon — September 28, 2006 @ 4:23 pm
You can test all sorts of cms softwares here and I’ve been hearing good things about Vanilla forum software (standards compliant etc.).
Comment by Daisy — September 29, 2006 @ 11:16 am
I’m presuming that a .Net route is unwelcome? I use Community Server, which is great if you can use C# or VB.net to edit the source.
Comment by Endie — October 8, 2006 @ 9:42 pm