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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 12, 2003 - 10:38 PM

  hi all!
  
  need hints for my plan to do a 6-site multisite postnuke community with a cool theme-engine, short urls, custom blocks, HTML templates for blocks, modules, etc ....
  
  currently I am checking out
  
  - dTap from donelson.net
  - AutoTheme from spidean.mckenzies.net
  
  there are others like xanthia too, but the above seem to be the best..
  
  what can you suggest? any recommendations or experiences?
  
  thanx for your help!

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• larsneo
  
  

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  Posted: May 12, 2003 - 11:19 PM

  i'd suggest to take a closer look to the xanthia theme engine
  
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  regards from germany
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 12, 2003 - 11:33 PM

  from the xanthia forum:
  
  

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  The current Xanthia devs are busy with commercial projects at the moment so unless we can get more developers involved help is a bit hard to find. Future Xanthia releases will be available at Sourceforge:
  
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/xanthia
  
  Xanthia themers like myself may want to consider porting Xanthia Themes over to AutoTheme Light while we wait for the next release of Xanthia. I plan on doing this soon. AutoTheme Light is similar to Xanthia as far as template editing goes.
  
  http://spidean.mckenzies.net
  
  AutoTheme supports Nuclei Blocks which allow you to do block templating as Xanthia does. For more documentation and to download Nuclei Blocks check out:
  
  http://www.tangant.com
  
  Once I'm familiar with AutoTheme Light and Nuclei Blocks I'll be more helpful

  
  
  hm-... this is confusing..
  
  so Xanthia doesnt look like to be updated soon, huh?

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 15, 2003 - 07:45 PM

  whats up with the new postnuke engine?
  
  when will .8 be out - which engine will be used?
  
  does anyone know?

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 15, 2003 - 08:17 PM

  Xanthia is almost dead, even if a new update of the cvs is up, the phoenix engine is lost, we don't know what will be the engine etc.
  Some of us ask themself i think "has postnuke a future?"

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 15, 2003 - 08:23 PM

  huh?!?!
  
  whats up there? why not work together more? I dont understand the philosophy of a thousand forks and people cooking their own soup..
  
  combine strength.. is smarter, or?

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 18, 2003 - 11:52 AM

  skillz

  huh?!?!
  
  whats up there? why not work together more? I dont understand the philosophy of a thousand forks and people cooking their own soup..
  
  combine strength.. is smarter, or?

  
  
  As long as people can't agree on an agenda and a flexible plan to achieve a specific set of goals there will continue to be division and forks. I have promoted the idea of a fork to uninfy the resources of the other forks before. A reverse fork :)
  
  Here's the story behind Xanthia. Once apon a time I suggested to a programmer by the name of Larry Masters that we improve on the Encompass Theme Engine and make it better. Being a themer I thought this would be a great way to promote my work and the skills of a very good programmer. So we forked the Encompass Theme Engine and called it Xanthia.
  
  Following the launch of Xanthgia there came several other commercial GPL projects that were supposed to enable us to earn an income so we could stay behind our computers and continue working on Xanthia and other free software.
  
  Then we got the bright idea of creating a GPL based company. Long story short we did not agree on priorities and agendas so nothing got finished. I backed out the company idea due to a lack of planning, time management and other important details. This created a falling out between me and several Xanthia developers. My name was then removed from the Sourceforge Xanthia site.
  
  Xanthia's future may depend on the PostNuke core devs and other 3rd party devs. I'm considering looking for more potential pnAPI programmers when I have more time to visit GNU and Sourceforge forums with proposals and new ideas.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 18, 2003 - 06:04 PM

  I bought AutoTheme 1.0 which seems to fit to our needs..
  
  dtap new release looks interesting too.. will check that also..
  
  thanx ,
  Dan

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: May 18, 2003 - 10:46 PM

  For the short-URLs, you might consider my version of ColdRolledSteel's Regular Expression (RegEx) parsing functions.php and htaccess file.
  I wanted to get rid of the '+main' from the module URL, and have more natural-looking URLs. Also wanted support for PostCalendar and PNphpBB2, and in the process fixed a few things with the RegEx and accounted for some PostNuke URL bugs. You can find them in any of my themes:
  PostNuke-V.zip
  PostNukeBlue100.zip
  SeaBreeze-V.zip
  Icey-V.zip
  
  functions.php and htaccess files go together.
  
  

  Code

  Short URLs include: (X being a number, square brackets represent a value)
  [modulename].html                       old-style modules, eg News.html
  [module]-main.html                      new-style modules like Postcalendar-main.html
  ArticleXX.html                          where XX is the story ID
  ArticleXX-[mode]-orderX-thresholdX.html
  CategoryXX.html
  Sections-articleXX.html
  [PN]phpBB2-[type]-t[topidID]-f[forumID]-[storyID].html  for phBB2 or PNphpBB2
  Search-[ArticleAuthor]-[overview]-[ActiveStories]-[TopicID].html
  SendArticleXX.html
  PrintArticleXX.html
  TopicXX[all].html                       where XX is the topid ID, 'all' for all topics listing.
  PostCalendar-[day]-[month]-[year].html  for the postCalendar module

  
  
  
  You may also want to consider my Short-URL modified core modules. The advantage is that you don't have to parse the output of every page as it's a core feature, the disadvantage is only modified modules produce short URLs, which means no 3rd party modules at this point.
  Get them here:
  ShortURL-mod-PN-0.723-files.zip
  
  Modified modules:
  FAQ
  News
  NS-User
  Sections
  Top_List
  Topics
  
  Blocks:
  Main Menu
  Categories
  Topics
  
  Search:
  Stories
  
  Martin :D

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