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[HopelessLose]

Hi, I'm new here, and I was wondering if anyone could help me out.

I help run a website called Hopeless Losers (hopelesslosers.com) and since we've opened it we've used only HTML... and now it becomes sparsely updated because of the hassle of doing it. And so many times I've attempted to learn php and failed (lost patience).... and then I found a site that was "powered by PHPNuke" so I thought maybe I could implement php and easier updating onto my website with that.

[I plan to make a new layout with a friend that's also on the site soon, where the new style would be shown]

However I'm not too sure I know what I'm doing, and I want to actually do it this time... the install process from the .txt in the downloads from phpnuke seems pretty simple and straightforward, and right now I'm just waiting for it to finish copying to my root folder (I'm on CPanel for my webserver) so I can attempt to install it.

Can anyone foresee how I am going to be able to not only set up php so that multiple users can post articles (of different categories) to my site in the future, as well as archiving all of our old articles into separate categories?

Also, I have no idea what the "CHModding" that people have been telling other people to look at on here means... I know HTML, but I'm pretty clueless about php (even though apparently its easy to learn). So if anyone could help me it'd be great.

Thanks!

[jasonl813]

If you are using cPanel there is a good possibility that the auto-installer for PHPNuke is already available in your cPanel. You may want to double check so you don't have to manually install it..

Check under 'scripts library'

[manubaT]

What is this CPanel?

Is it an open-source software that I can download?
If so, from where can I get?

Thanks.

[Douglas]

The thing about PHPNuke and PostNuke is that you MUST ABSOLUTELY keep your copy updated, and patched, otherwise your site will be exploited severely... I've watched two sites go through that, one of them is my customer's site.

[HopelessLose]

Hmm what do you mean it will be exploited severely, and how often do they update or add patches, etc?


Also, is phpnuke the best way to go for this project idea? All I really need to do (well its not that simple, but...) is change my site completely to PHP... with ability to post news updates or articles for a variety of different categories... with multiple user posting capabilities and an over admin account for myself...

[SB-Steve]

with ability to post news updates or articles for a variety of different categories... with multiple user posting capabilities and an over admin account for myself

post nuke or php-nuke will do this istself, once you install it you will see it runs alone, all you do is go to the news section and create your category names, then start submitting news, same thing with any feature in post nuke, go to the download sectionin the admin panel, make categories and then add files to them viola!

I do not know where your hosted but chances are php is installed all you have to do is install postnuke, something like

http://yourdomain.com/postnuke/install.php

it will then ask a few question about your server, you will fill in the answer and hit go, all done!

As far as your desing goes i would go to the p-nuke forums and ask about creating p-nuke 'themes'

[colorteck]

The latest verion of Php-Nuke is 7.1 and you can go here www.phpnuke.org or www.nukecops.com to get it. It is really not that hard to install it manually just use the nukecops forums to get the help you need.

[SB-Steve]

actually after reading your posts i think you don;t want post nuke

i think you want a news system that you can intergrate into your existing html and will let you go to the admin section of the news and add more news without having to download your html file edit it and upload it again.

the way i am talking about now it easier, you most likely add a code to your html pages <php include> and it willl show the news

pretty simple.

[HopelessLose]

post nuke or php-nuke will do this istself, once you install it you will see it runs alone, all you do is go to the news section and create your category names, then start submitting news, same thing with any feature in post nuke, go to the download sectionin the admin panel, make categories and then add files to them viola!

That is excellent. The fact that it runs by itself will be a great help, thanks for answering that question... once I get it installed I will be all set..

As far as your desing goes i would go to the p-nuke forums and ask about creating p-nuke 'themes'

So it requires certain "themes" to work efficiently on a website?.. I'll check out the forums

[HopelessLose]

Originally posted by Hades
actually after reading your posts i think you don;t want post nuke

i think you want a news system that you can intergrate into your existing html and will let you go to the admin section of the news and add more news without having to download your html file edit it and upload it again.

the way i am talking about now it easier, you most likely add a code to your html pages <php include> and it willl show the news

pretty simple.

So php nuke would allow me to do this, or... I'm not sure i understand

[colorteck]

Yes Php-Nuke will do this check out a php-Nuke site i built but is no longer mine. www.genmaps.com this will give you a general idea about what you can do with Nuke

[HopelessLose]

yeah that's exactly the kind of thing i need, just suited to my site's E/N article style... hopefully i'll be able to create a "nuke theme" for it or whatever

[SB-Steve]

what do you need, post nuke or a system to just add news into your existing site

let me know and i will post some links for you to check out!

[HopelessLose]

i'll check out any links you can show me... any system that can do this is good for me

[HopelessLose]

oh i just read an installing thing for phpnuke and now i understand how to do that so i may just install that and see how that goes... assuming that's easier than the news system..


how would i go about making a "theme" for it though? would that be too complicated or would i need to find a theme somewhere online? One final question, would it be possible to just create our own design and have it apply.. or is there something in the phpnuke index file for the homepage that would get messed up