Question about VBulletin with PostNuke or VBPortal...

[yodaddy]

I'm building a new website that will hopefully generate some traffic, and I recently purchased VBulletin and have installed quite a few of the hacks found here. (thanks!) I was wondering, which portal the regulars here suggest.... PostNuke / PHPNuke / or VBPortal? I've read almost all of the threads here mentioning PostNuke and integration with it and VBulletin. Can it be done? I merely want the user tables to match up.

Is VBPortal a decent alternative? I have recently installed PostNuke and am blown away by all the possibilities and quick add-ons that are available to it. Is VBPortal as robust?

I need to make a decision pretty quickly and was hoping for some direction on a CMS to use. Hopefully someone will come up with a PostNuke patch.

If I'm going the wrong direction with PostNuke I would really like to hear your feedback. Thanks...

[JoshFink]

Well, it really depends on what addons you need. You see vbPortal was built off a code base of Nuke. So, in essence it is compatible with Nuke addons, though you have to modify them slightly.

If there is a need for the addon someone over at PHPPortals.com will most likely help out, not me (no skill in that sort of thing).

Go over to PHPPOrtals.com and have a look around the interface. What you see is what you get, for the most part.

Josh

[Zachariah]

PostNuke is coded a bit different than PHPNuke, but to use an analogy: PostNuke is your basic car, PhpNuke is your car with CD,DVD, LCD scrn, auto start alarm .. ect ... VBportal is a shell on VB that was ripped from PHPNuke and integrated into VB.

Vportal is cool if the forums is the main part of the site (security, add news, d/l, web links, section, etc ...) Like Josh said it is great for a quick install and poof all in easy.

But no its not "NUKE", there lacks in modual support, gui admin, simple template editing, quick theme swaping ... on and on (i started useing Nuke ver 4.1 w/ phpbb 1.3) the security to make admins to do jobs needs help.

EX. You can make an admin and give them access to editing NAV boxes, newsletter, faq, on a per modual level w/o giving them access as a full site admin.

It is a great product (vportal) I am useing it now w/ VB. Its current setup uses the color theme of VB and has sep templates to edit the look. I just have grown out of Vportal for my needs and with the Nuke / VB hack that adds the users to both platforms its time to start coding nuke front end and VB forums (the perfect match)

Now the site I have up is hacked all to hell but you can take a look at diff things you can do http://www.gzhq.net. (i am not a guru of code)

BTW: guys and gals !!!!!!! would be very very cool to see VB as a Modual plugin to Nuke and/or make VB where it can add templates and addons to it self as a modual (like nuke).

Peace

[yodaddy]

I thought it was the other way around with your PostNuke vs. PHPNuke analogy. A lot of people have mentioned in previous forums that I've come across that PostNuke has a lot more "modules" being developed for it than PHPNuke and was superior in ease of use.

I guess people's views depend on what CMS they are actually using.

[Dolby]

I use VBPortal...
www.eqgov.com

I'm soon opening another site that will use VBPortal for my eqgui.com forums. The portal will be on a seprate domain name then the forums... took a little cookie hacking but it works

I'm no php expert but the way VBPortal works makes a lot of sense to me makeing it easy to write my own hacks.