PostNuke

I'm now looking seriously at converting all 11 sites from Nuke 5 to PostNuke, but I have some serious reservations and problems to resolve first.





1) 3 of my sites are very high traffic, one deals with over 150 gaming companies, so I'm very worried about converting these and running into problems.





2)I need to ensure that all my data is ported across without loss or functionality, especially the user database.





3)I need a forum system (preferably PhpBB) that will actually work with the shared user database system. The current module has some serious flaws it seems.





There is also a need for some custom modules for displaying gaming products, showing release dates, and a few others. I'm willing to pay someone to help me, but I'll ask the PostNuke community to help first. Many of my requirements would benefit everyone I believe.





So PostNukers.. How good is the support behind this project.? Any volunteers out there with a huge interest in Science Fiction/Fantasy and gaming that are PostNuke gurus .?

The main reason that i have waited so long for it's announcement is that i have been working a on a theme and some graphical elements (see topics) to make my site a bit unique and the most important thing 'CONTENT'.





My next step will be the forum integration (phpBB) and some logo designs. (Help and submissions appreciated).





Special thx to:


All PostNuke developers (great CMS)


Kodred and Marsishere (Gallery & themes)


Psiborg.de (central block)


Mahmood Al-Yousif from bahraini.tv (great help) ;)

1. How do I upgrade from PHPnuke 5.2?


I was stupid enough to upgrade to it.




2. How big are the changes to the DB?


I don?t want to loose any articles. They are really important to my site.




3. Do you see anything on my site Laiv-IT.Dk that wont work in Postnuke?


The site is in Danish but you should be able to get a feel of it.




4. How can Flash themes be made to support postnuke?


I currently have a flash banner on the front page of my site, but that will probably be removed due to the requirement on the users (having flash installed, a good connection and stuff like that). But I do have a theme that uses a lot of flash, and I used quite some time on creating it, and it would be a shame to loose it :o(




5. Is it possible to join the dev team of Postnuke, or lend a hand somewhere? :)




6. Can all PHPnuke themes be used in Postnuke?


I have a couple of themes on my site. Mostly themes configured for users with really bad internet connections, so they dont have a lot of graphics in them.




Best regards


Raz


Feel free to contact me about anything on:


Raz@laiv-it.dk


ICQ: 39689942


The web is only the beginning

thats where the problems started. for historical reasons, (and since it makes perfect sense in a non web services context) postnuke functions contain a lot of assumptions about the gui in its functions.





in my case, i did not need the gui part of the code, in fact it stood in the way. so i copied the functions and stripped them down to just the core logic. this turns out to be mostly about calls to the mysql database.





i would like to work on exposing a subset of postnuke functionality as xml-rpc api's. to do this, i suggest the existing code be reworked over time to split gui from backend code.





the code for posting an article, for instance, could be split into a method to display all the necessary gui elements and give user feedback, and another function that does just the database modifications.





my xml-rpc glue code would then be free to call these backend functions directly, as would other code that might, for instance, implement a different gui altogether (maybe a wml gui?)





i think such an architecture would make postnuke


even more modular, and would allow modules to more closely integrate with core code, without changing the core.





what do you think? (i hope i made my point somewhat clear. on rereading, it sounds not all that concise.. but i was in a hurry.. :)





PS: why would we want an xml-rpc interface for postnuke, you might ask? i'd say the possibilities for hooking up postnuke with other systems (cms, newsfeeds, search engines etc) are worth it.

Can someone give me an idea of what the average page load size is for PostNuke.





PhpNuke seems to load about 55K gross per page load.





Just for those that consider high volume sites: If you have a bandwidth of 30gig at a cost of $30 per month (overage of bandwidth billed at .04 per meg) and 55K page load size. You have to generate a revenue of .80 per cpm to cover some basic cost.





If you depend on pop up banners you still might have to consider that the user will load up 5 to 8 pages of your site.





If someone would like to have a copy of the simple spread sheet I use for testing web site cost I'll be happy to upload it to a general site.





Michael