Dizkus

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

For the ones I can answer...



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.



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.



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



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).



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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