phpWebsite and vBulletin Integration

I have spent some time looking into all of these portal systems. Thus far, I think that phpwebsite has the leading edge. I like many of the features. I also realize that there have not been many developments to nuke2vb, because of the waiting for VB 2.o to be released. For this reason I think that it is too hard to say which will be the best portal to use right now, and even several weeks after VB 2.0 come out. It will take some time to tell which will work better, and have more of the features that we will want. For now, I think that I will stick with what I have and play with VB 2.0 when it comes out, and soon after, begin looking at all of the many options that are and will be availible. But one thing is for sure, there is a lot of interest in a portal system that is compatible with VB.

The next version of Nuke2vB will attempt to achieve a combination of the best of all these Portals although we may just port them all just for the %$% of it , but our goal is to build Nuke2vB into a "vBShell?" a vB Template driven portal based on PHPNuke/PHPWebsite, they (PHPNuke and PHPWebsite) are basically the same core. Giving the user the ability to add both the addons the great hackers here make for vB and the ones made for PHPNuke and PHPWebsite.

I have just downloaded the new phpNuke 4.4 release and am floored at the fact that this is NOT all cracked up to be. The only fixes I have found after a careful compare with the 4.3 version is the following:

• Grammar fixes
• Some HTML tag fixes (only a few...still alot left!)
• Typos fixed
• Improved Downloads section
• King Richards 2.05 Addon integrated

That's it? I cannot belive all of the hype about this product and how good it is when the first page fails miserably when checked against a HTML validator and this includes the latest release! Francisco even states:

Some bugs remain on 4.4 and the HTML code is just a madness, so I'll dedicate the entire next version to fix the HTML code, clean the php code, and fix bugs. The next version, 4.5 will NOT have any new feature, just bug fixes. You can consider this version as unstable but more stable than 4.3

I don't think he loves his work anymore ;( hehe

To be honest, version 4.4 must be a joke.

The buglist is getting bigger at phpnuke.org and it appears that some of the same bugs are still there from version 4.3 along with some serious ones as well.

Originally posted by Snoop Dogg
Could someone here download php web site and change it into a .zip file and then attach it here? I would really appreciate it. I would do it on my own but I don't have winzip and use a different zip compressor and would like to avoid downloading it.

Anyone?

nice!!!

Amazingly, despite all the bad HTML, the site now loads incredibly fast (on a T1). It's faster than Slashdot or vBulletin for that matter. It's under pretty heavy usage too:

There are currently, 111 guest(s) and 21 member(s) that are online.

I'm not sure how fast the new server is, but it seems to be keeping up with a fair amount of traffic.

Nonetheless, I still would rather see work done on integration with PhpWebsite, rather than Nuke. Nuke adds features before bugfixes. Most of these features really aren't necessary for us seeing as how we already have them with vB. For example Private Messaging, Forums, Nuke is becoming bloated with features IMHO.

PhpWebsite on the other hand is fast, XHTML compliant, and doesn't have features like forums which would be useless to vB integration.

-Cameron

Well, I have had the opportunity to use both PHPNuke and PHPWebsite, and I must say that PHPWebsite is FAR better than PHPNuke.

Although, PHPNuke does have a one-up on PHPWebsite for being further along in the game, but that does not make up for all of it's faults.

I testing my back-to-back on two different servers, one with PHPNuke, and one with PHPWebsite.

PHPNuke is getting a lot of errors, and I found out AFTER the fact that PHPNuke requires PHP v4.0 or better to run the forums. And, there are a lot of other coding errors within the scripts. I've even fixed a few myself.

PHPWebsite, on the other hand, has been running flawlessly, except for a few errors on *my* part. The admin menu and integration are much easier than PHPNuke, you hardly have to use your shell at all when setting it up. The install procedures, including database conversion, is all done using PHP. And, I have yet to run into any errors, except for the ones I personally created. The only fault I can find with PHPWebsite is that it is not as feature packed as PHPNuke. But, as they say, good things come to those who wait.

I'd rather stand and watch PHPWebsite grow than use PHPNuke and watch it slide all over the place with sloppy, redundant code.

And to think, PHPWebsite hasn't even reached 1.0 yet.