jackt283 Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick taylor Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 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/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 I'm impartial to Joomla since it was a baby Mambo. It has LOTS of hacks/plug-ins, support, and templates. Sorta kinda like the this community and Ubuntu community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bicet Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted July 12, 2006 Share Posted July 12, 2006 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Connor Posted August 26, 2006 Share Posted August 26, 2006 The best I can recommend would be TimberWolf Content Management. We have a new version, 1.3 coming out soon that will absolutely reign over Joomla!, Drupal, and many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Creator Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 you could try word press if all you need is to post news and for people to leave comments. You might have to write your own code a bit if you want to integrate polls into it but it is a good and powerful engine for your site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 IPB. Weird but im used to it. Can be inserted into HTML page - its designed that way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackt283 Posted September 5, 2006 Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidnine Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 TimberWolf on the outside looks no different than joomla/mambo and Drupal seems very...unconfigurable. I'll help out with the project. Edit: I have years of web design experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpsolares Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 u should try Textpattern. is for news, u can modify for blogs and more have diferent type os users account, is not for forums i think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John the Geek Posted October 8, 2006 Share Posted October 8, 2006 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. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriX Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregano Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 i think u should because it would be a good idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I'm making an amazing CMS because I got bored of seeing crappy ones on the market Currently tweaking the skinning class of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oregano Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 how amazing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sev7en Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackt283 Posted November 23, 2006 Author Share Posted November 23, 2006 I'm learning joomla now. Started making my own template - still got a long way to go figuring out all the damn div id's and css class names i need to know. Looks pretty cool too. Pretty scalable as well it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriX Posted December 29, 2006 Share Posted December 29, 2006 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) Comments deleted by user go here to find out why Edited February 9, 2007 by Dicenet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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