Programing in PHP-Nuke! Basic Introduction :)

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· What is PHP-Nuke
PHP-Nuke is a news automated system specially designed to be used in Intranets and Internet. The Administrator has total control of his web site, registered users, and he will have in the hand a powerful assembly of tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using databases.


You only need to know the basic functions to change somethings through the system administration included in PHP-Nuke. This system is designed to do all its jobs automated using your preferred web browser. You'll never need to edit files in your server.

To be able to use PHP-Nuke you need a computer, an SQL database server (highly tested on MySQL), Apache Web server and PHP version 4.x installed and running. All these programs are available for free in the Internet.


PHP-Nuke runs well on the following Operating Systems:

Linux
Any Unix flavor
OS/2
Any Windows flavor
MacOS
FreeBSD
The system has been high tested on Linux systems, the other operating system has been reported by users that works great. In the future BeOS will be supported, this depends on the MySQL BeOS version to be released soon.

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Why to use PHP-Nuke?
There are many similar programs and projects like Slash, PHPweblog, PHPSlash, Thatware, Sips, NewsPro, etc, but PHP-Nuke is designed to be very customizable and flexible, is easy and pleasant to use, thinking about webmasters who pass hours administrating his web site.
PHP-Nuke also offers a very high number of features not present on other systems and on each release we'll add much more new and cool features.

PHP-Nuke distribution comes with English language set by default, but you can change it to your own language. There are more than 20 languages supported. Hopefully yours is in the list.

If your language isn't supported you can make the translation. After you translate it you can announce it here on the site. Don't forget to write your credits on the file!

· Where can I download PHP-Nuke?
To download PHP-Nuke you need to go to http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Downloads.

Enjoy Learning.