What is CrossNuke?

CrossNuke is a project to enhance functionality of the popular PHP-Nuke and PostNuke CMS-s. This project is a one-man-show. CMS is an abbreviation of Content Management System. PHP-Nuke and PostNuke are CMS-s.


What is CrossNuke Blog CMS?

The CrossNuke Blog CMS is the Swiss Army Knife for PHP-Nuke AND PostNuke. CrossNuke converts the most popular built-in and third-party features of these CMS-s into one, coherent blog system and adds a pile of new features while leaves the core system untouched.
The CrossNuke Blog CMS is a multiportal News system, a Forum, a GuestBook, a Resource Storage, a Multimedia Gallery. And of course a full-featured WebLog system.


What about the features?

1. Multiportal: unlimited numbers of blogs, each of them may be considered as news portal, forum, resource gallery or personal weblog.
2. Resource Albums: All blogs have a built-in, multilevel resource album set where any types of resources may be stored: photos, downloads, music, documents, e.t.c. Multiple uploads, cross-browser, javascript galleries. Built-in automatic image resizer.
3. Bult-in Wap portal.
4. Built-in Wysywig editor.
5. All users may have unlimited numbers of blogs.
6. All blogs can be maintained by unlimited users.
7. All blogs have their own administration interface, plus site admin for radminsuper users.
8. All blogs have their own archives, and web link library.
9. Per post configurable email notifications of new comments.
10. Per blog configurable security: Bayesian filters, content filters, host blocking e.t.c.
11. Per blog configurable comments and submissions permissions.
12. Configurable free blog service for all registered site users.
13. Automatic, version-free adaption to the PHP-Nuke and PostNuke environment.
14. Automatic, stealth installation with comprehensive import features (see install notes).


What about the compatibiliy?

The CrossNuke Blog CMS automatically adapts itself to the actual PHP-Nuke and PostNuke environment. It has successfully been tested with all versions of PHP-Nuke from version 5.0 to version 7.4, PostNuke 0.726 and also should seamlessly work with future versions without any modification. The installation works with the old CrossNuke NukePack enhanced systems too.


How to install?

1. Extract all files into your PHP-Nuke/PostNuke root directory. No files will be overwritten (except previous CrossNuke installation files). DO NOT install any SQL tables!
2. Check the permissions of the ./modules/Plog directory: it should be write-enabled for Apache user.
3. Login to PHP-Nuke as Radminsuper Administrator AND also as Site User, or to PostNuke as Site Administrator.
4. Start the Plog module: modules.php?op=modload&file=index&name=Plog. (In PostNuke you should activate the module first).

Stealth installation will start, no user intervention needed. After several seconds you should notice the following changes:
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1. You are redirected to the Summary page of CrossNuke Blog CMS.
2. You have a new left top block titled as Blogs.
3. At the right side of the Summary screen you find at least 3 Blogs dependig on your recent data:
	a. News
	b. FAQ
	c. Forum

Your recent data have been imported:

1. All Stories, Topics and Comments of your main portal have been imported into the News blog.
2. Locally stored Downloads have been imported as Downloads Album under the Albums of the News blog.
3. All Web Links have been imported as My Links into the News Blog.
4. All FAQs have been imported into the FAQ blog.
5. A new Forum blog has been created.
6. A new GuestBook topic has been created under the General category of the Forum blog.

Optionally, if data available:

7. All NukeBook entries have been imported as comments to the GuestBook topic in the Forum blog.
8. All Splatt and phpBB forums have been imported as separate blogs: Categories considered as forum blogs, Forums considered as categories under these blogs, posts/topics considered as topics under these categories, replies considered as comments to these topics.
9. All User Journals have been imported as separate blogs.
10. All My_eGallery albums have been imported into the Albums of News blog.

Don't worry: your files, recent database tables, entries, downloads e.t.c. have not been touched!


How to uninstall?

Simply delete the ./modules/Plog, ./wap directories, the admin/links/links.plog.php file, and the 20 $prefix."_plog_..." tables. That's all.