PHP Nuke

[gstout]

Anyone using PHP Nuke for their church website? If so, how do you like it? I'm considering switching over to it, and would love to hear any comments/tips, etc...

Thanks!
G. Stout

[Faithhb_lutheran]

I haven't used that one but i will give this point of advice. when deciding to adopt a specific platform to work off of, spend some time in it's community ask some basic question on it's support forums and see how they are reacted to. You can always readjust to new ways of programming but good help is hard to find.

[GuruGreg]

I used to have a few sites that I ran in PHP Nuke or PostNuke, but I found that it took more PHP knowledge than I had to get them to do what I wanted or look how I wanted. If you don't have a solid understanding of PHP, I'd advise against it. Otherwise, there are probably better solutions for your situation.

[McDLT]

I'm using it for my old church's and find it pretty easy to use once I was able to understand some php (my knowledge is still pretty limited).

I'm now considering changing back to coding myself, just because I want to do some other formatting stuff which is harder (for me) to do using php.

I think it is a great way to get started. You can use it as a blog/site mix which is nice. But that only works if you can get church leaders (ie the pastor) to blog. LOL

[mrbelfry]

I've not used PHP Nuke for a few years but I remember that there seemed to be a few issues regarding security at the time I was experimenting with it. If you knew what you were doing it seemed that you could hack a php nuke site relatively simply.

Having said that it was a few years ago so they might have got most of the issues resolved. I seem to remember it was pretty easy to set up and use

mrbelfry

[Faithhb_lutheran]

open source software is always easier to break that's just the nature of the industry, but most hackers will leave other open sourcers alone. Then again the new breed of hackers (or more appropriately spammers) dont have the respect of the older generation

[ibda12u]

I've used PHP Nuke for some intranet sites, and I did a ton of customizations to it also. But I don't really think it's the best software available. Honestly though I guess it really simply depends on what you're wanting to accomplish with your church site. If you're needing user management, and a "portal" style layout then phpnuke or some others may be good for you. But if you're looking primarily for a content management system (lots of pages, and you want to give other limited access to just update their pages without breaking the rest of the site) there are lots of good one's out there also. I don't want to toss in other cms's unless you want me to, but there are plenty.

[David Gillaspey]

I don't want to toss in other cms's unless you want me to, but there are plenty.Please do! And any comments you can make about them.

:)

Sincerely,

David Gillaspey
President
Great Church Websites

[ibda12u]

Well, some that I'd recommend and we've built lots of non-profit sites with drupal, joomla. If you have a skills with creating graphic designs, then a cms such as, cmsmadesimple, is another great option. I work a fellow who generally will create a site idea in photoshop, then slice it into a template. Then we can load that template into cmsmadesimple. Then all you have to do is create new pages, and add your content to the pages. You don't have to worry about fixing graphics etc.. (of course you can add images into your content). We like this method especially, because you may like to change your site's design pretty often, but the bulk of your content may not change very often. Supposed you want to give your site a fall, or autumn look. Well you can create a new graphic, slice it, and load it into cmsmade simple, then apply that new graphic to all of your content, and you're done. If you really wanted to you can create a new design for every week of the month :) (day of the week? :))

Another pretty good cms's, is dotnetnuke. It's pretty solid, and it's built on ASP.NET technology, a bit different than php, but if you're into ASP then it works that way. (I like asp as well as php, so i'm happy either way).