Thanks to our community!
Our developers got some database dumps for PHPNuke from interested users and they were able to extend the cross upgrade script. It should now be possible to upgrade from PHPNuke 6.5 and PHPNuke 6.9 to OpenPHPNuke. Feel free to test this feature and please give feedback in our forum to improve the Cross Upgrade.
Be careful and save your databases.

Perhaps you want to read about the Cross Upgrade in our documentation.

I must admit... I am a little biased! after all, I am writing this article here at OPN.

What can I say? I mean, I am no genius when it comes to the cutting edge of php coding... actually I am just a newbie that was facinated the first time I pulled up PHP-NUKE in my browser window and everything worked like a charm... well... almost.

No negative comments from me... I'm just implying that, although it was an AWESOME system (The one which all others are compared to sooner or later), it was a bit difficult to fully customize, since the files were scattered, and many "Themes" didn't work, and would screw things up sometimes. BACK UP YOUR DATABASE KIDS!!!

I loved PHP-NUKE tho... I still do, but I soon moved on to a much cleaner system called PostNuke. Please take note, that most of the CMS systems are forks of PHP-NUKE.

Postnuke was a cool system too!! A great community of users are available at the official PostNuke site... but I still couldn't get over the concept of the "static block" layout of the PostNuke system...

Also, these systems did not seem to hande upgrades well, as most of the time your add-on's were sloppy or had "oldschool" coding used before the new API came along... or whatever...

This means TIME FIXING STUFF... UUGGHHH!!! Lot's of time wasted...

The next step was Envolution... again, I spent much time in this system, but felt there had to be more out there... better usability, easier customization???

I tried Mambo, which is nice, but limited in modules and so forth...

Don't get me wrong... I can't build one of these sytems myself... but it seems as soon as I figure out one CMS, another one comes along that does what I have been trying to do...

Enter OpenPHPNuke!! :) Easy install... lot's of modules!!

HANDS DOWN... THE BEST BY MILES!!!
If you have used any of the systems I have mentioned, you will be doing yourself a great favor to give OPN a try! You can even upgrade from several CMS systems to OpenPHPNuke with the upgrade scripts that come with the download...

And the support... WOW! I have never seen such a great (responsive) support team... THANKS OPN for taking things to the next level!!


I can't speak for anyone else, but personally... I think OpenPHPNuke is the "King of CMS"

Get a quick overview about OpenPHPNuke and the features you can expect at this location.

Stefan did an extra night shift and now all our OPN modules are available in the download area.
You get each module individually wrapped along with a brief description. So now you can choose
precisely which module you want to download.

About the installation:

Each module is wrapped according to its destination within the OPN directory, example - the "Terms and Conditions" module:
The zip file is opn_agb.zip and is wrapped as follows:
modules/agb/und_here_ all_ the_files.

So after downloading you can upload the file directly into the main OPN file, all the paths will be congruent. In dealing with your Zip-program you have to make sure that it maintains the file structure while unzipping.

If all modules are properly unpacked, you go to
OPN-->Administration-->Modules
And start the installation.

Hoping that all went well; if not, we’ll meet in the OPN Board „installation“ :-)

Finally!

No more waiting! Our OPN Release Candidate 1.0.0 has just been published by our developers! You find a Core-Version and all the modules in the download area.

A big "thank you!" to our developers

Heinz Hombergs
Stefan Kaletta
Alexander Weber

as well as all betatesters!

Thanks to Francisco Burzi, who laid the cornerstone for a worldwide Nuke-evolution with his PHPNuke (and taking all the circumstances into account he made kind of sure that OPN would be developed)