I was reading through articles on web building and decided to take the opensource route, but I didn't want to get to far in depth on the programming side. I wanted a web interface where I could set up a database of users, control my news articles and posting, and build a comminity forum for various discussions. Then, I came across Apache, MySQL, php-nuke, and XForum. MySQL and Apache are OS dependent, but the win32 binaries are pre-compiled on their respective sites. Apache was fairly simple to setup. MySQL took a bit more time, but with a few tutorials and samples I eventually got the hang of it.
PHP-Nuke, this little gem is a revolution in php interfaces. I first tried it on my hosted site, which runs a unix server with a MySQL database automatically installed. Once downloaded, I changed four attributes in the nuke.sql file to reflect the settings of my database and uploaded the package to my root directory. After setting permissions (really simple, the install file tells exactly how to do it.), I typed "http://www.mysite.com/admin.php"...
XForum, used for community forums, was just as easy to install. I first created a XForum directory in the modules folder on my site.
After changing four attributes in the config.php, I uploaded the package to the XForum directory and changed permissions on the files(the install file covers this). Once I typed "http://[YOUR site here]/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=install"
the install took 10 seconds.
The total installation took 2 hours counting the 1 hour upload of the 4 megs of files. Then, 30 minutes of setting preferences in the admin sections. The customizing will take a few days, but the basic template is set.
There are other modules that can be installed. Once modules are uploaded and permissions are set, they just need to be activated in the admin panel.
There are other php packages similar to PHP-Nuke (Post-Nuke, phpwebsite), but I tried the others and this one was the best for me. There are also other forum packages (Ikonboard, phpBB) but again this one had the options I wanted and seemed a bit easier to install. I've included the links below for more info, the help sections are slim, but you can occasionally catch a someone to help out.
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I was reading through articles on web building and decided to take the opensource route, but I didn't want to get to far in depth on the programming side. I wanted a web interface where I could set up a database of users, control my news articles and posting, and build a comminity forum for various discussions. Then, I came across Apache, MySQL, php-nuke, and XForum. MySQL and Apache are OS dependent, but the win32 binaries are pre-compiled on their respective sites. Apache was fairly simple to setup. MySQL took a bit more time, but with a few tutorials and samples I eventually got the hang of it.
PHP-Nuke, this little gem is a revolution in php interfaces. I first tried it on my hosted site, which runs a unix server with a MySQL database automatically installed. Once downloaded, I changed four attributes in the nuke.sql file to reflect the settings of my database and uploaded the package to my root directory. After setting permissions (really simple, the install file tells exactly how to do it.), I typed "http://www.mysite.com/admin.php"...
XForum, used for community forums, was just as easy to install. I first created a XForum directory in the modules folder on my site.
After changing four attributes in the config.php, I uploaded the package to the XForum directory and changed permissions on the files(the install file covers this). Once I typed "http://[YOUR site here]/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=install"
the install took 10 seconds.
The total installation took 2 hours counting the 1 hour upload of the 4 megs of files. Then, 30 minutes of setting preferences in the admin sections. The customizing will take a few days, but the basic template is set.
There are other modules that can be installed. Once modules are uploaded and permissions are set, they just need to be activated in the admin panel.
There are other php packages similar to PHP-Nuke (Post-Nuke, phpwebsite), but I tried the others and this one was the best for me. There are also other forum packages (Ikonboard, phpBB) but again this one had the options I wanted and seemed a bit easier to install. I've included the links below for more info, the help sections are slim, but you can occasionally catch a someone to help out.
http://www.phpnuke.org
http://www.mysql.com
http://www.hacknuke.com (XForum)
http://www.apache.org
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