Hi, I'm in serious need of a content management script in php, to use in a review's website!

The script should be GNU and be able to work with phpads and beeing easy costumizable!

The ideia is to have a nice good looking review's website!

ALL HELP is appreciatted!
Best Regards
Rui

I can think of a few offhand, mainly gnu/gpl license.

PHP-Nuke: http://www.phpnuke.org
Postnuke: http://www.postnuke.com
Xoops: http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/
ezPublish: http://www.ezpublish.net

my quick reviews:

PHP-Nuke:
I'm using it now but it is insecure "out of box", and has a bit of messy code. The main developer doesnt seem to care much about the bugs that make if from version to version, but the community is pretty good. Bloated if you need something simple, but most of the "modules" can be deleted.

Postnuke:
Looks better than phpnuke, and has cleaner code, but lacks all the addons of phpnuke. More secure "out of box". Admin section takes a bit of getting used to.

ezPublish:
Don't know. I wanted to look at ezpublish locally but I dont have ImageMagick. Not sure if it will even run on my development localhost site.

Xoops:
Downloaded it awhile back, and didnt care to much for it. It seemed to lack features and addons. I'll prolly take another look at it soon, since the last time I messed with it was a while back.

There are some others, but I'm sure people will point them out.

PHPNuke seems to be the easiest to customize (themes wise) but lacks a good reviews module. I'm sure you could get phpads to work with the nukes.

Just my unbiased $0.02... Hope this helped :)

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Ohh, I'm at 500
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Thanks alot dude ;)


attm i'm taking a look at postnuke! Ezpublish seems to be to hard to install (and to tell you the truth cant be arsed to spend lots of time getting it to work)!


Keep the feedback coming :)


Please remember its to use in a videogames review website ;)

MGCJerry...

PHP-Nuke "insecure "out of box""? PostNuke "More secure "out of box""? I keep hearing this from people, but no one ever mentions specifics. How is version 6 of PHP-Nuke "insecure" vs. PostNuke version .72 "more secure"? Thank you.

No problem...

I cant comment directly on PHPNuke 6 because I've only looked at it briefly. Once I look deeper into it and use it I'll be able to comment specifically on it.

One thing was the file manager that was included in older versions. Some of the file manager code was present up till 5.5 though it was removed around 5.0 (when I got 5.0 it didnt have it). The install instructions tell you to chmod al files to 666 and directories to 777 (phpnuke security hole #1). Not chomding the files and directories closes this hole. Thank god that file manager was removed!

Weak validation for user info. The name and username fields are not checked properly so people can put mailicious code (javascript or call code off another server) as their name, and for anyone who views the page where the name is on, gets affected. This has been sround since I was using 4.5 (phpnuke security hole #2). Postnuke also has this problem but they might get it fixed soon (postnuke security hole #1).

There is still "Useless code" in phpnuke from old features that could possibly be used to deface the site (phpnuke security hole #3).

These are the ones I definately know about because I've tried them. However, I'm sure there are a few more, but I have heard about more "phpnuke exploits" than "postnuke exploits". Also the fact that FB (phpnuke creator) doesnt clean up the code and implement all the phpnuke patches that people release. When I upgraded from 5.4 to 5.5 then to 5.6 I found myself patching the same problems. Hopefully, most of the problems arent in phpnuke 6 but by looking at the forums, I still see the same problems.

I'm also sure that postnuke has its share of holes, but I'm sure the developers care enough about the users that they patch problems before they become well known exploits.

Very informative :)

Just checked with postnuke developers (in thier forum) and seems it can't be much use now (they don't got categories for reviews module working ok :( )!

PLEASE all help is appreciatted!