discuss: PHPNuke HowTo
Subject:
PHPNuke HowTo
From:
####@####.#### (Chris Karakas)
Date:
10 Jan 2003 21:28:34 -0000
Message-Id: <3E1F3B4E.E9C0F9FD@karakas-online.de>
Hello,
I just joined this list. In some sense, I have always been with you,
since I write all my documents (private *and* business) in a LDP HowTo
style ;-)
I am following the LDP Author Guide, which says that I should contact
this list before I start a HowTo, so that's what I am doing. My
intention is the following:
Claudio Erba of spaghettibrain.com wrote a 70 page document (let's call
it "the PHPNuke Book" from now on) on PHPNuke in italian under the GNU
Documentation Language. You can find the original at
http://www.spaghettibrain.com/modules.php?name=book
It didn't take long and we joined forces to translate it in english -
we, that is amp2000, bloody and me. You can read the (long!) translation
thread at nukeforums.com at
http://www.nukeforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=11210&forum=42
I put considerable effort to not only translate it but to transform it
to DocBook SGML too. I used LyX for this. We wrote in LyX, then I passed
the .lyx document through some sophisticated scripts of mine, which in
turn corrected and extended the SGML produced by LyX, then called
sgmltools, openjade, pdfjadetex and friends to create the various
formats.
The translation is complete now. You can see it at my homepage at
http://www.karakas-online.de/EN-Book/index.html
or, if you don't want my navigation tree to the left,
http://www.karakas-online.de/EN-Book/book1.html
The format is certainly familiar to you, so I will not discuss it
further.
My intention is to extend this document to a "PHPNuke HowTo", including
more material on programming, management or whatever the readers of it
may wish to see. And there are already people who press for the
inclusion of more material to it, since PHPNuke has long suffered from
the absence of documentation. See also
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5246
I volunteer to maintain this new PHPNuke HowTo along the above lines.
What do you think? What shall my next step be?
--
Regards
Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de
