PHP-Nuke new development direction (part 2)
Date: Thursday, March 04 @ 19:01:02 CET
Topic: PHP-Nuke


nukelite writes Hello Nukers! After a communication with Zhen-Xjell from NukeCops we both agreed in publish some words to put some stuff in its place. Recently I announced that I hired two guys that will help me with some ideas I have. Since those ideas are big ones, I decided to have two coders under my direction. I'll pay them for the work and they agreed to pass any code's copyright to me, that's part of the contract. This people will work very close to me so I can manage and view any work before it goes final and included into PHP-Nuke.

Zhen-Xjell aka Paul from NukeCops has a great developers team that works very hard in so many stuff on PHP-Nuke. My idea to have a particular team isn't to substitute in any way the work of NukeCops dev team. They are working very hard in security and in the phpBB modules. My team will have a work to create a totaly proprietary forums and private messages modules. Proprietary in this case means that will be 100% made FOR PHP-Nuke. One of the orders are that those forums should have exactly the same functionality as phpBB and migration tools should be painless for the users trying to use the exact same database scheme of phpBB.

Doing this we all win. Those guys a very good coding in PHP, we'll have a native code forums. After this work, the forums module should need maintainers, and obviously NukeCops dev team will have this task.

My dev team will also help me on organizing lot of stuff, like the upgrade of the Club files. There are at this time over 3GB of themes, blocks and modules that should be tested, one by one, repackaged and classified. This is one of the most important tasks of this private dev team.

We're also planning to create a Windows client that will communicate with PHP-Nuke API and grab information to create more robust communities.

I'm working on a new News module and some more parts of the code to bring PHP-Nuke into the next level with a more professional look.

One more person that should be mentioned is chatserv from NukeResources who's making also a very nice work catching bugs and sending fixes. I'm in conversation with Zhen-Xjell and Chatserv in order to syncronize our efforts and next versions of PHP-Nuke will include many code from both of them.

The new version of PHP-Nuke has been started today. It will have a lot of stuff removed, many new stuff thinking in the commercial profit of the users, and LOT of bugs fixes and security holes fixes.

I'm also reviewing the actual translation system, which is a pain in the ass for any coder, the abstraction layer calls, variables verification, single and double quotes everywhere, and maybe a new themes system based in CSS style sheets.

So... the main idea of this post is to make it clear that Zhen-Xjell, chatserv and me are in contact and working for all you with the goal to give you the best portal software ever made... contrary to some malicious comments out there, there is not any crisis in progress... all this is working in the way it should work and the community is growing and growing day by day.

About the new server... I'm waiting the availability from the hosting company. As soon as they are available I'll acquire it and start all the tests. I'll be announcing the progress here.

With the launch of the new server I'll re-activate forums and comments system as well.

Hope all you have a more clear vision of where will PHP-Nuke go in the future and hope to have your confidence on the new direction that will bring wonderful results for sure.

Thanks for your attention and have a very nice day!





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