PostNuke

Infobox_Software
name = PostNuke



caption = One of many sites that use Postnuke.
developer =
latest_release_version = 0.764
latest_release_date = release date|2006|11|20
latest_preview_version = 0.800 RC4
latest_preview_date = May 12, 2008
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Content Management System
license = GNU General Public License
website = [http://www.postnuke.com/ www.postnuke.com]

PostNuke was a free, open source content management system (a 'nuke') forked from PHP-Nuke, released under the GNU General Public License. The PostNuke project was started because some PHP-Nuke users believed there should be a more open development environment. The users felt the only way this could be done was to develop their own fork of the PHP-Nuke code. PostNuke has grown beyond PHP-Nuke and become a project standing on its own merits. Like XOOPS, PostNuke's code is object oriented and fully modular.

In June 2008, Postnuke changed its name to [http://zikula.org/ Zikula] ( [http://zikula.org/CMS/Press/ Press Information] ).

Features

Currently PostNuke can provide RSS feeds, internet forums (through [http://www.pnphpbb.com/ PNphpBB2] , a modification of the popular forum software phpBB, as well as [http://www.pnforum.de/ pnForum] and other forums), polls, language internationalization, galleries, chat, e-commerce, games, reviews, links, as well as countless other features with various hooks and modules, many of which are free. PostNuke is also themeable using several theme engines such as Xanthia and AutoTheme (also known as AT, or AT-Lite), as well as PostNuke's native theming system. Both Xanthia and AutoTheme offer page caching to speed up page generation times. PostNuke is written in PHP and stores its data in a MySQL database. Future versions will work with any database supported by the ADOdb driver. PostNuke will run on any platform that PHP will run on, including the Apache and IIS webservers.

Books

* "Postnuke Content Management" by Kevin J. Hatch (ISBN 0672326868)
* "Das PostNuke Kompendium" by Markus Gossmer, Michael Schumacher, Andreas Schauperl (ISBN 3540219420)

Current Development

The current version of PostNuke is 0.764. The development is currently focusing on the release of version 0.8, with the RC4 available for download. The 0.7x version is now only updated for security fixes, with 0.8x at the centre of development.

See also

*Xaraya
*List of content management systems

External links

* [http://www.postnuke.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.GregAllan.TYO.ca/ Biography of Greg Allan] , Co-founder and past lead developer of PostNuke