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dogma
July 13th, 2008, 21:35
Hi all

Can anyone suggest a free portal/cms that can offers out-of-the-box:

1. file distribution / file depository (downloads manager)
2. And offerring the option to restrict downloads to members (only) whilst allowing guests to view descriptions of the file.

PHP-Fusion seems to be able to do 1 but not 2.

Thanks in advance.

out-of-the-box i.e. without any modifications / plugins etc
Zombie
July 13th, 2008, 22:15
PhpNuke

http://phpnuke.org/

Does both and more

=]
iBrightDev
July 13th, 2008, 22:50
that is a pretty good idea. i will have to look into doing something like that to mine.
Dan
July 14th, 2008, 02:07
Joomla! CMS (http://www.joomla.org) along with Remository (http://www.remository.com)
I use them both and fairly good once done right.
hamster
July 14th, 2008, 06:37
I vaguely remember wordpress being able to do that...
dogma
July 14th, 2008, 08:03
Thanks all.

Rsmiley, Is PHPNuke free?

Dan, Joomla is great but it won't be worth the effort setting up a simple site that I want, for the amount of time it would take to setup. Hence why I'm looking at out-of-the-box solutions.

hamster, Wordpress can't do this out-og-the-box. I run both my current sites off wordpress. It takes time manually pasting links on a page if you have a lot of downloads. As far as I'm aware there isn't a plugin that can do this yet.
Zombie
July 14th, 2008, 08:23
Thanks all.

Rsmiley, Is PHPNuke free?

Dan, Joomla is great but it won't be worth the effort setting up a simple site that I want, for the amount of time it would take to setup. Hence why I'm looking at out-of-the-box solutions.

hamster, Wordpress can't do this out-og-the-box. I run both my current sites off wordpress. It takes time manually pasting links on a page if you have a lot of downloads. As far as I'm aware there isn't a plugin that can do this yet.
Yea Php-Nuke is free...

Theres one out called fusion i think im not sure tho but with php-nuke its all free i believe
Dan
July 14th, 2008, 23:23
Joomla sets up in seconds from Fantastico and Remository takes but 30 seconds to setup in the Joomla backend.
dogma
July 16th, 2008, 12:13
Sorry Dan, what I meant was configuring as opposed to initial setup and installation.

I will take a further look at joomla as my friend uses the DocMan component.

Rsmiley, the following is from PHP-Nuke site:


Dear User:

This is the place to purchase/get the latest version (8.1) of PHP-Nuke software.

It's being sold for $12 (http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=Release) excluding updates.
Tracker
July 16th, 2008, 13:23
http://futurenuke.com/

Thats for php nuke. But I myself like joomla a lot more.

Might switch to joomla and integrate wordpress with it.
mrpanda
July 16th, 2008, 14:49
nuke-evolution.com
build-a-host
July 20th, 2008, 19:32
Joomla is too hard to setup and configure for a beginner though. So unless you are familiar with CMS's, I would suggest PHP-Nuke!
sellwhm
July 21st, 2008, 19:03
As far as I know...I am not sure about newer versions. PHP Nuke has alot security issues and the newest version isn't free. I would use post nuke or the other alternatives.
heymrdj
July 22nd, 2008, 00:19
I use pafiledb. http://www.phparena.net/scripts.php?script=pafiledb
dogma
July 26th, 2008, 20:16
heymrdj pafiledb looks like what I've been looking for. Thanks

Thanks everyone!
heymrdj
July 26th, 2008, 20:18
heymrdj pafiledb looks like what I've been looking for. Thanks

Thanks everyone!

Glad to help, I knew it sure was one heck of a nice piece of software when I first found it. I used it at LAN parties on the local webserver we had with the game server so that we could have ISO's/Videos/Patches ect available on the whole lan in an easy to access manner. Apache/PHP/Mysql, simple and lovely software.