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• dp2
  
  

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  Posted: Mar 17, 2007 - 12:49 PM

  Future development issues
  
  How far can postnuke be striped down to the bone and for modules to deal with the flesh and fat
  
  Viewing under phpMyAdmin
  Noticed userblocks are taking up a lot of storage data. Could the userblock data fields be intergrated into the user fields in some way.
  
  Also I noticed that some table fields are getting rather big and must ultimately slow things down.
  
  
  The search system is crazy recording every word search and storing on the database
  
  
  I would like to see the site messaging and forum messaging reduced to one.
  
  A basic postnuke or a mini postnuke that has less features and more easier system to build modules.
  
  1) Authentication with more control over users so that if their email is dead or they don't return to the site their accounts goes into hybernation.
  2) Forum - basic without duplication of features e.g. private messages or at least full intergration with postnuke messaging
  3) Quest book
  4) Content with an index system or even a site map

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• Topiatic
  
  

  • Rank: Expert
  • Registered: Nov 23, 2003
  • Last visit: Dec 13, 2009
  • Posts: 1487

  Posted: Mar 17, 2007 - 09:38 PM

  For the ones I can answer...
  
  

  dp2

  How far can PostNuke be striped down to the bone and for modules to deal with the flesh and fat

  
  
  Currently that's a bit of a hit and miss, there are a few posts around here some where that deal with that but I can't find them ATM.
  
  

  dp2

  Noticed user blocks are taking up a lot of storage data. Could the user block data fields be integrated into the user fields in some way.

  
  
  The User module is an 'old style' module, accomplishing this would probably be harder than it's worth... besides, the data would take no less space in another table.
  
  

  dp2

  Also I noticed that some table fields are getting rather big and must ultimately slow things down.

  
  
  How big? Remember big to people is not so big to an SQL engine.
  
  

  dp2

  2) Forum - basic without duplication of features e.g. private messages or at least full intergration with postnuke messaging

  
  
  PostNuke does not come with a forum, from the sounds of it you're using PNphpBB which is essentially a port of a standalone forum making integration practically impossible. pnForum however is fully integrated using whatever messaging system PostNuke is using, it also has some very cool features like mail2forum and News2forum (my favorite feature)... and it can double as a comments system (great with News2forum).
  
  

  dp2

  A basic PostNuke or a mini PostNuke that has less features and more easier system to build modules.

  
  
  You my friend really need to take a good look at PostNuke's 'Future development' PostNuke 0.8 adam_baum. It's currently in it's milestone phase and available here, or better yet the nightly SVN snapshot can be downloaded here. You might also want to read the news articles regarding 0.8 to help understand what it's all about.
  
  I'm confident that the rest of your concerns can easily be addressed with the new system.
  
  Also, you may find this site quite useful PostNukeDirectory.com.
  
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