PHPNuke 7.7 - Does the NL work?

Newbie Joined: Jun 02, 2007 Posts: 2

Hi

I'm looking for a newsletter addon and stumbled across your site. You seem to have what I'm looking for but after reading most of the posts on the forum, I'm a little concerned about installing it.

I'm on phpnuke 7.7, does it work with that version?

Also you mention Raven as being more secure. What do I need to do to ensure security is top notch?. As I said i'm using just FB 7.7 version.

Thanks
Steve

Spam Stopper - Comments Modules · Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 311

HTML Newsletter requires security patches to the virgin FB7.7 nuke version which you can get from NukeResources and although these patches will help with security, they do not fix a number of other annoying bugs which are still left unfixed by the original author FB.

As RavenNuke comes with HTML Newsletter built in, additional security features as well as some other useful bits and pieces you might want to seriously consider upgrading your site Raven Nuke - for piece of mind if nothing else.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 965

Hi guys. I'm back finally. What a trip...

Anyways, regarding 7.7 and greater releases of PHP-Nuke, I do not support the HTML Newsletter still on those releases.

I know that there is an issue with the TinyMICE editor interacting poorly with the code. I know that some folks have solved that, but I have never pursued trying to fix it due to my support policy on those higher releases and the lack of time.

Maybe some day...

Newbie Joined: Jun 02, 2007 Posts: 2

Montego/Guardian

Thanks for your kind advice. Being a relatively noob when it comes to PHP/SQL, I have one more question.

At present I have a database of 300 articles, by upgrading, will it delete the current article database?

Regards
Ezepeze

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Feb 12, 2005 Posts: 965

There is actually a good "Downgrade" script from http://nukescripts.net that will take your 7.7 database structure back down to the 7.6 structure (well tested and no, you will not lose content) and then there are good instructions in the HowToInstall manual of RavenNuke for how to then migrate from the core 7.6 data structure to the RavenNuke one (only slight mods are done - no deletes).

Raven has excellent and very active forums over at http://ravenphpscripts.com to help with any issues that you may run into with this type of migration from a different PHP-Nuke version to RavenNuke (which is essentially PHP-Nuke 7.6 with very few extensions).

Spam Stopper - Comments Modules · Site Admin Joined: Jul 18, 2005 Posts: 311

Just for your added peace of mind, I have migrate to Raven Nuke from various versions of phpNuke including 7.7 and the process is fairly straight forward if you take your time and keep back ups.