Software for www.FAMVIN.org
Thursday, 03. 20. 2003 – Category: Resources
The Vincentian Family Website (www.famvin.org) is built using PHPNuke, and MySQL on an Apache webserver. The scripting language is PHP. This all means that we run the site on a shoestring budget.
“The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field. We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers and users.” (from www.apache.org). Therefore, it seems quite in line with the collaborative spirit of the Vincentian Family that we use this software on our web server. Besides - it’s right at the top of the list for good webserver software.
“MySQL is the world’s most popular Open Source Database, designed for speed, power and precision in mission critical, heavy load use. MySQL AB is the company owned by the MySQL founders.” (from www.mysql.com).
I can’t verify or argue with this claim. We use MySQL (no license fee) successfully on the FAMVIN sites. It too comes in flavors for Unix and Windows systems.
Description (from the website): “PHP-Nuke is a Web Portal System, storytelling software, News system, online community or whatever you want to call it. The goal of PHP-Nuke is to have an automated web site to distribute news and articles with users system. Each user can submit comments to discuss the articles, just similar to Slashdot and many others. Main features include: web based admin, surveys, top page, access stats page with counter, user customizable box, themes manager for registered users, friendly administration GUI with graphic topic manager, option to edit or delete stories, option to delete comments, moderation system, Referers page to know who link us, sections manager, customizable HTML blocks, user and authors edit, an integrated Banners Ads system, search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), and many, many more friendly functions. PHP-Nuke is written 100% in PHP and requires Apache Web server, PHP and a SQL (MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, ODBC_Adabas, Sybase or Interbase). Support for 25 languages, Yahoo like search engine, Comments option in Polls, lot of themes, Ephemerids manager, File Manager, Headlines, download manager, faq manager, advanced blocks systems, reviews system, newsletter, categorized articles, multilanguage content management and a lot more.”
What is PHP? (from the website)
“PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.” As with Apache and MySQL, the documentation is available on-line. There are also tutorials available to help you learn to use this scripting language.