First of all, thanks a lot for downloading this software, we hope that you enjoy using it.

PHP-Nuke is free software, released under GNU GPL Licence version 2.0 (see COPYING file for details) PHP-Nuke was the result of many years of administrating a news site called Linux Preview (http://linuxpreview.org). First, around August 1998, I wrote my own code in Perl called NUKE and used it for about 1 year, then my site got really big, so I needed a more powerful system and decided to use Slash, the same that was used in the old Slashdot site. It was good but you really needed to know Perl in order to modify things, it needed too many modules, and you also needed to load a daemon that sucked a lot of CPU power. My Old Pentium III just acted like a 386 each minute the daemon did its work. Well, then I discovered Thatware, which I felt was a good project to create and have a news site under PHP. I learned PHP in less than a week and started to modify it. There were so many mods I'm unable to mention them all, it was practically a rewrite. I added some cool stuff and deleted some others after more than 380 hours of hard work in 3 weeks! PHP-Nuke was born.

On August 17, 2000, I sold LinuxPreview.org to LinuxAlianza.com and then I had all the time I needed for PHP-Nuke.

From January 2001 to January 2002, PHP-Nuke was financially supported by MandrakeSoft, the folks that made Mandrake Linux. This gave me and PHP-Nuke a lot of oxygen and made it possible for me to do a lot of stuff. So then, I was alone with this killer project. I also received a lot of help from other people who develop modules and make themes. After a while, phpnuke.org became a pretty big site with a lot of users and helpful information for end-users around the world. We also had a very strong community site in almost every language you could imagine. People would go to phpnuke.org and enjoy the great community!

For installation instructions, go and read the INSTALL file, also remember to read the CREDITS file so you know where the really cool mods come from. The TODO file is the list of features that we will add in future versions, read it also. Please, enjoy PHP-Nuke and remember that this is free GPL software and it comes without any warranty and without technical support, so please don't email me asking how to make this or that, I'll ignore that type of email and those questions should be directed to the forums area where the community will better assist when I am unable. PHP-Nuke isn't perfect, but your suggestions and feedback are appreciated and will help us in creating an awesome CMS!

I took a very long well-needed break and while I was gone I became a CoderExchange Hall Of Fame inductee for the years 2000 to 2023! 

PS: Sorry for my English, I'm not an english spoken guy. Also, remember I receive too many Emails, so I can't answer all of you, but for sure I'll read all the Emails I receive.

Owner / Programmer PHP-Nuke   name: Francisco Burzi (Frank)   email: admin[at]phpnuke.coders.exchange