PHP-Nuke

PHP-Nuke is a publishing, and Content Management System (CMS) model that enables site owners to publish information for distribution as well efficiently and effectively manage site content and content that’s been syndicated. And it’s an important part of the W3 Hosting toolbox that comes free with your account.

The software is based on MySQL and PHP — two of the most popular software packages. Originally, PHP-Nuke was distributed free. The latest version costs a few bucks but previous versions are free.

Using PHP-Nuke, your site becomes more than a site. It becomes an on-line community in which site users, authors and editors can post often provocative user-generated content about all things web-based. Webmasters can select which posts make it to publication and which rants end up in the trash bin. Readers can easily add comments, i.e. it’s a blog.

Finally, there’s a large PHP-Nuke community actively involved in the development of PHP-based modules for use with PHP-Nuke, which means new features are coming on line all of the time. A recent check of the site showed modules for articles, auctions and such, new graphics, cool hacks, documents and how-to-fixes and a new section on themes such as famous sites, language additions and other cool stuff — and that’s a lot of goodies for just a few bucks so check out PHP-Nuke. This software takes an average site and superizes it with new content, new features and cool site skins.

And you get it free when you make W3 Hosting your web host.