[off topic] PHP Nuke experience :)

[DocHoliday]

Okay it's not so very much off-topic as it seems.

I'm trying to put together an Orbiter dedicated site and I'm having some questions about PHP Nuke, since I'm not too
familiar with it yet, nor am I a PHP whizzard

1. The topic / category system - as far as I understand so far, the main thing are Topics and they don't have
sublevels... and I need them. Categories on the other hand serve as filter aids and are not dependant on Topics and
they too cannot go into sublevels.. So you have a 2D table of topics and categories. Any way to change that?
2. The users... By default you have users and admins.. And they are managed separatelly and users cannot
be "Promoted" to admins without having to create a NEW username for a new admin altogether...
3. The user groups. People get promoted into higher groups according to total score. They get no new rights or
priviledges directly and if you want to give them rights, you need to make them admin usernames with proper rights...

This all kind of makes it static. I'd like to have at least 3 levels of topics and the ability to change user rights for
normal users or to place them in groups which have rights.... So that you can create more than two levels of users,
some being admins, some just moderators and others normal users..

Should I be looking at a different CMS for that ???

Cheers,

[DanSteph]

aaaarghhhh another one that fall in the php nuke dark side instead of
writting himself a custom php code....

*Dan think that finally php-nuke will allow Doc to spend more time on the DGIII*

I mean ... err it's a VERY good package, and it take no time to install,
go with it

Dan

[DocHoliday]

hehe, nah, it's for the tutorial site.. I am WAY to slow in learning PHP to any useful extent. So I have decided to use
some sort of system and go from there. Although PHP Nuke will not do.

I am currently exploring TikiWiki. But sourceforge is down for maintenance so I can download it, only drool at the
features

All I need is flexible user rights control (guest, user, author, moderator, admin), n-level of categories, seach engine
and article adding tool and some statistics (hits, top10, rating, best authors) ... sounds simple, but not for me

TikiWiki looks primising if I can get it to work

[DanSteph]

DocHoliday wrote:
All I need is flexible user rights control (guest, user, author, moderator, admin), n-level of categories, seach engine
and article adding tool and some statistics (hits, top10, rating, best authors) ... sounds simple, but not for me

A full featured site as was the reviewer project and yours can take month
to program.

The only drawback is that often things as php-nuke and others are often
to heavy for what we need....

Dan

[DocHoliday]

A month for you, half a year for me

I know, php-nuke has a lot of things I don't need, and doesn't have the ones I do need

[DanSteph]

DocHoliday wrote:
A month for you, half a year for me

I was meaning MonthS even for me...

Dan

[freespace2dotcom]

and half a decade for me.