[kwlug-disc] Request for LAMP based software

[Jon Thiele]

Hi Khalid,

Thank you for the info - I downloaded Pipecode and I'm playing with it
right now.

Jon

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> CMS and 'very easy to setup and maintain' is a hard combination to find.
>
> You can build such functionality in Drupal for sure. But you also have a
> myriad of modules to maintain and update when security releases come up,
> and the major version upgrades.
>
> If you just want Slashdot functionality (recommend stories, admin approves
> it, moderation points given to users, commenting, ...etc.), then you should
> consider the SoylentNews.org code. This is embedded Perl still, and a fork
> of slashcode, the engine that runs Slashdot.
>
> If you must run it under PHP, then consider the code powering Pipedot (
> https://pipedot.org/), which is a clone of slashcode in PHP, here:
>
> https://pipecode.org/download
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Jon Thiele <jthiele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I (used to) run a couple of LAMP based websites from my home office for
>> two groups of friends.  Very low volume - about 1,000 page hits a month.
>> I ran an ancient version of PHPNuke as my platform for both sites.   They
>> were modelled after slashdot.org, where users could submit a post, get
>> it greenlighted by an admin and then others could comment on the post of
>> their favourite cat video, bar, fishing pole, joke etc.  However, due to
>> security concerns regarding PHPNuke, and my PHPNuke would only run on PHP
>> version 3, I told both groups last year that I could no longer run their
>> sites.
>>
>> One group went to FaceBook *cough* - but the other group is asking me to
>> setup their site again.
>>
>> I know that many members here have vast and varied experience setting up
>> websites for clients and themselves.  So, I'm looking for a CMS or
>> something similar that is very easy to setup and maintain(!), has the same,
>> or close to functionality of slashdot (or maybe reddit) and is LAMP based.
>> Ideas and thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanx.
>>
>> Jon
>>
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