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[PHP|Post|myPHP]-Nuke has to be one of the most-forked open source projects in history! Xaraya appears to be a fork from Post-Nuke, which itself forked from PHP-Nuke several years ago (and I’m pretty sure there are more). They’ve got an interesting set of RFCs on how they intend to build the next big open source content / community management system (nothing about generating pretty URLs yet). While browsing their site I found a link to PHPXref, a powerful looking tool for generating PHP source code documentation. Unsurprisingly for such a lot of text munging, it’s written in Perl ;)

Update: I obviously wasn’t paying attention: RFC 0023: Short URL Support

Posted 12th March 2003 at 11:55 pm

This is More nukes by Simon Willison, posted on 12th March 2003.

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  1. Your "(nothing about generating pretty URLs yet)" is wrong, my dear: http://docs.xaraya.com/docs/rfcs/rfc0023.html Besides, it's pretty a no-brainer to generate pretty URIs from even a piece of shit like one of the -nuke flavors. Even if I agree with you that the software stinks like rotten eggs, we must admit they've done their homeworks this time.

    BarMan - 13th March 2003 00:08 - #

  2. Blimey, I dunno how I missed that one. Thanks for correcting me.

    Simon Willison - 13th March 2003 01:02 - #

  3. Didn't they all fork from thatware.org ?

    Sam - 13th March 2003 21:34 - #

  4. phpNuke came from ThatWare. PostNuke came from phpNuke, as did phpWebsite, I do believe. Xaraya came from PostNuke (literally). So did Envolution, Xanthia, and now LostNuke. So...yeah. :)

    brihana25 - 14th March 2003 01:55 - #

  5. re: piece of shit :) xaraya is not your fathers nuke. its arguably one of the best-designed php applications at this time, but what do i know :)

    Gregor J. Rothfuss - 14th March 2003 09:15 - #

  6. Gregor: I think you should have exposed your interest :-) http://greg.abstrakt.ch/index.php?module=articles& func=display&aid=227 But I agree, Xaraya looks good. I'm looking forward to a final release so I can compare it to EzPublish 3.

    Peter - 15th March 2003 13:19 - #

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