RavenNuke_v2.10.01 Question

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:40 am

OK heres my first question and more will come when a reply has come.

Ive downloaded RavenNuke_v2.10.01 and extracted the html folder to my webhotel FTP and ran the INSTALLATION. All went like a dream and the forum is upp and running.
What Iam not sure which version of phpNuke7.x RavenNuke_v2.10.01 is running.

Iam using the subblack theme at the moment that came with the RavenNuke_v2.10.01 package and considering going over to the subblack theme in Platinum 7.6.b4v2.

I want to be able to keep the profiles and posts that presently are when I go over to the subblack theme in Platinum 7.6.b4v2.

Thx in advance

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RavenNuke is based on PHP-Nuke 7.6, but has been extensively tested, secured and enhanced. I'm not sure if Platinum modifies the users and / or forums tables, but if not, you should be able to keep all your users and posts.

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:36 am

It sounds like you want to keep RavenNuke, but just use the theme made for Platinum? I think themes are compatible between the two but I'm not totally sure about that. Themes are easy to try out though, so it can't hurt.

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:41 am

You'll probably find the theme from platinum includes hacks for the inclusion of bbtonuke mods that comes with Platinum. The theme should work on RN from past experience, but you will need to edit the theme to remove the links etc to the bbtonuke mods.

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:04 pm

Yes, both Nuke Platinum and Nuke Evolution contain a number of Forums mods that affect themes. There might be a similar theme that wasn't modified for Nuke Platinum, which could make moving to RN easier.

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:34 pm

nimis wrote:

Iam using the subblack theme at the moment that came with the RavenNuke_v2.10.01 package

This is sort-of an "aside", but just don't want there to be confusion caused by this statement. There is no subblack theme provided with the RavenNuke package. If you have it, where did you download it from?

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:04 am

montego wrote:

nimis wrote:

Iam using the subblack theme at the moment that came with the RavenNuke_v2.10.01 package

This is sort-of an "aside", but just don't want there to be confusion caused by this statement. There is no subblack theme provided with the RavenNuke package. If you have it, where did you download it from?

Just back from work..
montego..Sry your completely right.. There aint subblack in the package. Seems Iam loosing some cells up there, age catches on, eventually.
What I did was, I dl the sb and added it to the themes folder.

Iam very pleased with RavenNuke a job well done , our fourm has been up and runnnig for months now and no problems.
Well except for 1 that my members have pointed out to me the other day.
When they log on to the forum they find for ex 6 new posts in 3 diff threads.
Then when they have entered one thread and read a new post there and then exit to the the main forum page the other new posts are not blinking any more. That problem I haven't solved yet.

Why my questions about Raven and Platinum is because my couriosity got ticking and wanted to test Platinum to see what differences there are.
This is why Iam trying to find out if its possible to convert the users and forum tables in Raven so that I can use use em in Platinum.

Hope I haven't gotten yall confused here.. Iam still learning..

Thx again and looking forward to some more feed back.

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:40 am

Well we are biased, but RN is the more secure, faster and an all round better package.

...but in answer to your question is should be possible to move the users etc over if you wanted to test it out. The best thing to do is to compare the ravennuke database to a platinum one, using something like beyond compare to check what the differences are.

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:20 am

Read up on what you said bout Plat not being as secure and so on as Raven and ur 100% correct.

The chances that I go over to Plat is nill. Iam very pleased with the work that you all have done and looking forward to the next version of RavenNuke 2.2
Btw when will it be avaible?

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:31 am

"Soon". It is in the final stages of testing and quality assurance. We can't be more specific than "soon" though. Each time testing shows something is wrong we need to resolve it and how long that takes depends on the nature of the problem. And there's lots of "latent" bugs in PHPnuke that surface as we go thru all this and unfortunately some of them are complicated to unravel.

Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:08 pm

Appreciate the reply and looking forward to the new version which Iam sure will rock.

Thx again