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Calendars! Calendars! Calendars!
A long time we all lived with PostCalendar - a complex and powerful modules that included Smarty before it was included as templating engine into the core. But the complexity was also the reason why the original maintainers gave up their work and nobody really picked it up again. Robert Gasch attempted to dissolve the code jungle and turned to other projects. Other modules like Zerocal, cal-zone or the pgCalendar addon for Pagesetter never really took off in the shadow of the huge PostCalendar. For a long time nothing much happened until recently several new calendar modules started to grow:
1. Daniele Conca's crpCalendar started off as a simple list of events but it is slowly turning into a full fletched Calendar with day-, week- and month-views. Moreover it supports hCalendar microformats and Content via plugin so you can integrate calendar events into your Content articles.
Download: http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/crpcalendar/
2. TimeIt is attempt to clone PostCalendar with .8 technology. In the meantime version 1.1 RC1 is released which not only offers all the features postCalendar has but also event registration and user events.
Download: http://www.assembla.com/spaces/files/cxTPX-9PKr3lxaabIlDkbG
3. Eventliner is a new Calendar which also imports PostCalendar data and offers day-, week- and month-views.
Download: http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/eventliner/
Good News for Communities
Florian Schliessl released a new, cool community module called ContacList which handles lists of friends. Your user will be able to ask other others for friendship and see their friends birthdays. The module can also be used in other modules to make user profiles aso only visible for friends. TimeIt already supports ContactList so your users can add their events or register and make this information visible to their friends.
Download: http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/contactlist/
Totally Web 2.0
Mark West released a little plugin that allows you to include these little buttons for all kinds of link services like del.icio.us, mr. wong aso. into your modules.
Download: http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/pnwebservices/
Pagesetter Successor
Marco Kundert is still working on his Pagesetter clone. The module will have all the features that Pagesetter has but replace all the stuff that Jørn first implemented in Pagesetter which now has been included into the core by the core features. Guppy will be repleaced by pnForm, the workflows will be replaces by the core workflows aso. Moreover he aims at making Pagemaster easier to use for beginners. Gabriel Freinbichler is already running a test version on one of his sites and he seems to be quite satisfied with it.
Shops
There are at least 3 forks of pnCommerce out there, maintained by Rüdiger Hahn, Jim Hatfield and others the problem now is that they all are very busy with their system and that they need to integrate all forks again to have a common code base again. There were several attempts to reunite the code but AFAIK the project lacks somebody who is really willing and able to put some time into it - who works self-motivated and needs the shop for his own sites.
Robert Gasch is working on a commercial shop. I had the priviliedge to take a look at it and it seems to offer a lot of very advanced features. If you need a shop and you are willing to invest some money into it, you should contact Robert.
Media
Axel Guckelsberger seems to have 50 hour days. His latest project is MediaAttach - finally a real solution for a central media repository. It still has some legacy from it's predecessor pnUpper but it already offers a lot of great features for the handling of media and it is included in Scribite and Content.
Download: http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/mediaattach/
Certainly there is a lot more going on - so if you are working on a project, please leave a comment.
Generated on April 21, 2008.
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Branding - What is PostNuke really?
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Joomla was chosen as the "most lowed" CMS - I am asking how PostNuke should relate itself to Joomla (and other CMS's for that sake).
PostNuke .8 and Joomla are, as I see it, quite close to each other. They both boost table-less designs, templating, complete use of CSS, user friendliness, modular etc. etc. So what's the difference? There's surely a lot of technical stuff to be said about this, but I'm looking at the marketing side this time.
The three most obvious positions has already been taken: the most-loved/best CMS (for beginners), the most professional, and the best blogging system. So how should PostNuke be positioned? If we try to head for the "best CMS" then we compete directly with Joomla and that's going to be a hard battle to win: Joomla has (apparently) gained a lot of momentum recently and competing with that is difficult.
So is there another position for PostNuke to take up? What should be the one-line slogan for PostNuke?
One position could be: "PostNuke - the most versatile CMS". That is not really correct wrt. Typo3, but it fits with current work on 1) cleaning out the PN core, and 2) making different distributions of PostNuke, and it sounds more "for the end user" than calling PostNuke an "application framework" (which the core is). You can get a complete blogging system for PostNuke, you can have a community site, you can make a photo site, and you can make something completely different, like for instance www.turmappen.dk which only uses the PostNuke core and some home grown modules (never miss a chance to make some advertizing for your website :-)).
So, Guite, hurry up and make the best of EasyDist! I love the concept - it should really be available for use on postnuke.com (and I know there's some technical details that still needs to be fixed for this to happen).
The next question is - who is the audience for PostNuke? Here is a problem since PostNuke all of sudden becomes a multi purpose tool - with different audiences for different distributions. How should that be managed? Honestly, I don't now, I'm not a marketing man. Hopefully some of you out there has some good suggestions? Or maybe a completely different view on the issue?
PS: I'm on vacation right now, so do not expect a quick response from me
Generated on September 15, 2007.
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Installing PostNuke for Absolute Beginners
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the Installing PostNuke for the Absolute Beginner is now back and has been updated to tie in with the Phoenix release of PostNuke.
It can be found in the same place it used to be at http://postnuke.bloodymongrel.com. I hope people find it a useful guide to help them get started in the world of PostNuke. There is also a demo site online where people can just play around and see if PostNuke is what they need.
I hope you enjoy reading my tutorial as much as I enjoyed writing it and may it allow PostNuke to be available to users of all skill levels.
Cheer
Generated on March 19, 2003.
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Hosting Service for PostNuke sites
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e.g our blue package:
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cheers,
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Generated on July 19, 2002.
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Installing PostNuke for an absolute beginner
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that would be different is the creation of databases. Everything else should be exactly the same no matter what host you are with.
My aim for this tutorial is to make PostNuke seem easier to use and not something that is reserved for "Professionals" or "Web Developers" only. It is a great system and should be used by all.
If you like the sounds of this, then go for it. It sure makes life with PostNuke installations a great deal easier and once you
Generated on June 26, 2002.
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Permissions for not so absolute beginners
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The changes that you need to make are:
1. Register the module with the security system.
This requires to you modify the Version.php file and add a line describing the rules. For the Stats module, I added
$modversion['securityschema'] = array('Stats::' => '::');
Stats is there or it isn't. I'm not stopping certain functions although you could.
2. Modify the module's index.php file to make the security check. This takes the form of
if (!authorised(0, 'Stats::', '::', ACCESS_READ)) {
include 'header.php';
echo _VIEWSTATSNOAUTH;
include 'footer.php';
return;
}
You might need to move the header.php and footer.php includes around depending on what else is in the file. This code snippet is placed towards the top of the file before any other output is produced. Note the format matches what we just put into the Version.php file. It also includes a new language define. In this case _VIEWSTATSNOAUTH.
3. Add the error message to the modules local language files. In lang/eng/global.php add
define("_VIEWSTATSNOAUTH", "You are not authorised to view stastics.");
4. Create a permission restriction for whatever groups are necessary. In my case, I set
Unregistered | Stats:: | :: | None
5. Modify the menu and other links to hide the link from site.
The menu can be done through the permissions system by adding Stats to the entry already there.
Generated on February 18, 2002.
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Permissions for absolute beginners
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Modules and I named it "Main Menu". If you name it differently, you have to name it the same in the "instance", too (see below).
Next thing I did was:
- make some hyperlinks viewable to the admin only. The only thing I had to do was modify (Administration Menu - Permissions - Group - View Permissions) the "instance" of the second default group permission (All groups || Menublock:: || Main Menu:Administration: || None) from instance:
Main Menu:Administration:
to instance:
Main Menu:(Administration|Forum|Members List|Sections|Stats|Top):
This way only the Administrator saw the hyperlinks to Administration, Forum, Members List, Sections, Stats, and Top, the way I wanted it.
- secondly I wanted registered users to see some extra hyperlinks so I modified (Administration Menu - Permissions - Group - View Permissions) the "instance" of the fourth default group permission (Unregistered || Menublock:: || Main Menu:(My Account|Logout): || None) from instance:
Main Menu:(My Account|Logout):
to instance:
Main Menu:(My Account|Logout|Search|Submit News):
This way only the Administrator saw the hyperlinks to Administration, Forum, Members List, Sections, Stats, and Top, the way I wanted it.
So far, so good. However, making a hyperlink invisible doesn't mean it's inaccessible! For example: if you are not an admin, the Members List hyperlink will not be visible to you in the Main Menu(in the above example) but if you know the URL to the Members List (http://www.anysite.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Members_List&file=index), you could see it even as an unregistered user!
So I went on to try to make the Members List inaccessible to everyone except to Admins(s). I didn't succeed yet. Maybe someone can help? I tried the following permission:
- All groups || Modules:Members List: || .* || None
and put it in third position (from top) but that didn't work. I also tried:
- All groups || Members List:: || .* || None
but that didn't work either... If someone could help me out here, I'd be happy to document it and make it available to the community.
Something that kept me wondering, too, is that when I log into my PN 0.7* site, I cannot vote in my poll. When I log in, I can vote. Obviously this has something to do with permissions but nowhere in the default installation is there any permission that has a "Poll::" component in it!? Why's that?
Furthermore I have some suggestions:
1. Is it just me or is permissions difficult? There's just not a whole lot of examples on Permissions either, is there? First place I looked is in the Online manual (included in PN :-) which is quite good and technical, on docs.postnuke.com and in Permissions for Newbies (thanks to mrherald) but I still couldn't find what I was looking for.
2. Could more groups be included in a default PN installation? Perhaps 5 (or so) levels could be created from Visitor (unregistered), to Junior Member (registered), to Senior Member to Admin? (Just an example.) The only thing absolute beginners would have to do is add users to the correct group, they would not have to worry about (1) creating permissions and (2) having them in the correct order. Titus proposed something similar like that here.
3. Could some of the developpers perhaps include more examples in the Online Manual?
4. Could you setup a forum dedicated to Permissions or a FAQ (Post - Nuke Permissions) or both? I would be happy to add some questions and replies to that FAQ once I get the hang of it!
Reginald
Generated on February 17, 2002.
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Logo Manger: Right, left, off available!
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For demonstration the Logo Manager is available in the Main Menue of my homepage:
http://www.jan-mantkowski.de
For production your will switch it off in admin- module - Logo Manager.
Download it: http://www.jan-mantkowski.de/Logo_Manager.zip !
There is both a easy install manual for the beginner and the experienced user availabe.
I provide a FAQ for questions.
FAQ Questions in german and english will be answered.
Have fun!
Jan
Generated on September 22, 2001.