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I'm in need of a half decent portal system. I want something really simple, something that I can post news with, and users can leave comments. That's about it. Ideally it would use MySQL and PHP. Of course it needs to be easy to insert the PHP code into my current HTML templates, and it needs to be compatible with CSS too. Freeware is nice.

 

I'm not after something like PHP-Nuke, not an entire content management system, just something that makes it no chore to post news and get some feedback. I've found a few, not sure if they're any good though.

 

 

Any recomendations? If you know of something, give us a link.

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It might be more than your looking for, but I would reccomend Drupal. The basic installation will do all that you need and will be expandable if you need more later on.

 

I'm not sure about inserting the Drupal code into your HTML (I'm not saying its impossible, just that I don't know how) but it should be easy enough to adapt your HTML to work with xtemplate, a theme engine that works with drupal.

 

http://drupal.org/

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We're actually working on a not-so-secret portal for this site, since we haven't been too happy in the past with joomla or any of the other CMSs we've tried.

 

The nice thing about it is that we're building it from the ground up, so that it'll be light, fast, and easy to use. It'll also be open source.

 

We've actually just started on the coding basics, built in cake PHP. Let me know if you're interested in helping.

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If you need some help I can do something... I'm one of the developer of phpBBXS... Google for it... I don't want to seem a spammer.

 

BTW a good portal system is Subdreamer. Complete Simple and Fast. Also if it's not free.

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Sorry for hijacking this thread.

 

I'm wardriving right now (R&R) on a 256kbps network and the front end loads and browse Joomla pretty fast. Is it just the templating system you as dissatisfied with? Good choice in using Cake. I'd offer some assistance, but I have just enough time to reply here and manage my other sites, on top of a City Portal project that's due in 6 months.

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There are just a lot of things I don't care for with Joomla: bad cross browser support, bad interface, not very intuitive handling of some things (like images), etc. Just not a big fan in general.

 

I'll PM you about the project, bicet - we'd love to have anyone's help!

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Looking though the coding of the current version of that I'm pretty sure that won't supass joomla.

 

If you're looking for something to post news and easily get feedback, would wordpress not do that?

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Looking though the coding of the current version of that I'm pretty sure that won't supass joomla.

 

If you're looking for something to post news and easily get feedback, would wordpress not do that?

 

Joomla sucks...a lot. Making everything modular is bad, there's a reason why programmers don't like Java (unless they're massochistic)

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Okay so I used PHPNews. Simple and cool, just insert a php include tag into your site and your sweet. No bells and whistles but it allows the basics - post news, comment posts and archives. It was real easy to customise the templates and I didn't even have too much trouble modding some of the php.

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I'm in need of a half decent portal system. I want something really simple, something that I can post news with, and users can leave comments. That's about it. Ideally it would use MySQL and PHP. Of course it needs to be easy to insert the PHP code into my current HTML templates, and it needs to be compatible with CSS too. Freeware is nice.

 

I'm not after something like PHP-Nuke, not an entire content management system, just something that makes it no chore to post news and get some feedback. I've found a few, not sure if they're any good though.

Any recomendations? If you know of something, give us a link.

 

You could write your own...

 

That's what I did. I wasn't happy with anything out there so I built my own system. I won't post code on my site unless I know exactly what every line of code does.

 

=)

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I WAS making a really cool flat file, users, comments, blogging, navigation, skinnable, etc portal, called WinX Portal, and it was starting to get good when the hosting company shut down without notice, taking my files with it, and then I realized that I only had a really old version on my computer. Oh well... I'm not continuing it, because I don't want to do it all over again.

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Joomla is one of best CMS ever developed and now it's the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award Winner.

 

With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source Content Management Systems nominated for the award, Joomla! was judged winner of the final. After eight weeks of voting from visitors to www.PacktPub.com and judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and CMSPros, Joomla! triumphed with the most votes, winning $5,000.

 

Joomla! is the youngest CMS of the five finalists having originated by the then Mambo development team in August 2005. Joomla! was chosen due to its ease of installation and use along with the active development and community that supports the project.

 

Core team member Alex Kempkens said the award was a wonderful surprise. "I would personally like to thank Packt for their contribution to the Joomlasphere — by publishing Joomla! guides and by running such a successful competition," he said.

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Yes, Joomla is awesome. I still don't completely get the thing about Joomla and the Mambo though... They're almost exactly the same, but it seems that most of the Mambo devs left and joined Joomla and took their code with them.

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