Nuking The Competition - Conclusions (
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There are many uses for the
PHP-Nuke system - a budding webmaster could use it as the basis for his or her
community portal, a developer or consultant could use it to rapidly build a
portal for a client, and a hobbyist could take it apart to understand how it
works.
As a tool for rapid development and delivery, it offers numerous
advantages - it's easy to install and configure, the built-in theme support
makes it easy to customize the interface, and the active community support (take
a look at
http://www.nukeaddon.com/ for
a bunch of great add-ons, toys and utilities built especially for this system)
and open license make bug fixes and modifications a breeze. The XML/RDF support
is also a nice touch, and makes it easy to integrate other content sources into
the system.
That said, there are a few things that I'd like to see
changed as well. A greater separation of interface code from application logic
would be first on my wish list, as this would make it easier to build themes for
the system (this is apparently expected in the next release of the software).
I'd also look for improvements in the administration user interface, especially
in the menus and the aesthetics, and better documentation for future
releases.
That's about it for the moment. I hope this article offered
some insight into the features available in the PHP-Nuke system, and some
guidelines on how to go about deploying and customizing it to your own needs. If
you have comments, or simply want to share your experiences with PHP-Nuke, drop
me a line - and till next time, stay healthy!
This article copyright Melonfire 2001. All rights reserved.
