History of Zikula
Zikula started its life many years ago as a program named PHPNuke. PHPNuke was a new concept of web site. It was modular, theme based and open source. The only problem was it was managed by a single person who made changes as he felt fit - it was, after all, his project.
PHPNuke became very popular, but had no real road map. It was hard to install and hard to configure. And it required a plethora of patches to make it secure.
As a result, several different groups of people started developing forks of PHPNuke. Each intended to be a community based version of PHPNuke, each with a real objective and a solid road map into the future.
So was born PostNuke. Its main goals; to be more stable and easier to install that its PHPNuke counterpart. PostNuke was successful develop for several year.
In the middle of 2008, it was decided (without any community involvement I might add) to change name to something more independent - and as such PostNuke version 0.8 was released as Zikula.
PHPNuke became very popular, but had no real road map. It was hard to install and hard to configure. And it required a plethora of patches to make it secure.
As a result, several different groups of people started developing forks of PHPNuke. Each intended to be a community based version of PHPNuke, each with a real objective and a solid road map into the future.
So was born PostNuke. Its main goals; to be more stable and easier to install that its PHPNuke counterpart. PostNuke was successful develop for several year.
In the middle of 2008, it was decided (without any community involvement I might add) to change name to something more independent - and as such PostNuke version 0.8 was released as Zikula.