1.6. Aknowledgements

Claudio said in the first version (1.x) of this document:

The following people contribute, directly or indirectly to this project and their help is hereby kindly aknowledged:

• Francisco Burzi with all the introductory scripts, found in the files of installation of PHP-Nuke

• Vasco Clergy and his daughter Valentina of Lug Rieti for the translations of the modules of the handbook

• Micaela Bechini, for the daily translations of phpnuke.org from English.

• The communities of Splatt.it, Nukeitalia.com, PHPnuke.it (and its Mailing List), Postnuke.it, envolution.it, xoops.it and obviously the 1500 registered users of spaghettibrain.

• Aemmenet, in the person of Mark Atzori that has granted us free use of the server on which spaghettibrain is accommodated.

• Roberto Scano of IWA Italy and Patrizia Bertini of Webaccessibile.org for the contributions on usability, accessibility and W3C validation.

• Marcello Tansini of webmasterpoint.org for the support given to the project in terms of visibility.

• Andrea Birgahi, the best PHP-Nuke Theme Maker of the world for the diagram of spaghettibrain, for the logo of the book and a lot more.

• My girl Sara for all...

• My mother Lella, my sister Cora, my dog Grey and the newly arrived baby dog Maya.

This book I dedicate it to my Papà Antonio. Hello Pà.

For this second version (2.x), Claudio wishes to thank:

• Francisco Burzi, the daddy of PHPNuke, who has chosen this book as the official PHP-Nuke handbook!

• The translator and the manager team of the PHP-Nuke HOWTO: Chris Karakas, Andre Purfield, Fortunato Matarrazzo.

• Umberto Zaccarini of WMG Italia.

• Euro Gala of Eticoweb, for the operative and ethical support.

• Florence University, because after reading my book they called me to give a course of CMS at Multimedia Master; in particular D.ssa Barbara Iraci, Dott. Diego Mencarelli and Dott. Del Bimbo. Thanks to every master student, too.

• My team, the Crew Spaghetti, Andrea Biraghi, Federico Campoli, Fabio Pirovano, Claudio Demarinis and the casual externals Alex Zollia, Micaela Bechini, VirtualDarkness.

• Michel "Ziobudda" Morelli, Fabio Farnesi (programmiamo.net), Giovanni Tummarello (wup.it), Roberto Scano (IWA Italia), Anna Bruno (fullpress.it), Alessandro Del Rosso and the De Andreis brothers (punto-informatico.it), for the mediatic space they give me every time.

• My mother Lella, my sister Cora, my dogs Maia and Grey.

• My Sara for everything.

Chris wishes to thank:

• Francisco Burzi, for writing PHP-Nuke and publishing it under the GNU General Public License.

• Claudio Erba for bringing the ball in rolling.

• Andre Purfield for starting this wonderful project in the PHP-Nuke book translation thread at nukeforums.com.

• All software developers, whose software is used in the preparation of this document (see Section 1.8):

  • LyX,

  • TeX,

  • LaTeX,

  • pdfTeX,

  • hyperref,

  • openjade,

  • pdfjadetex,

  • thumbpdf,

  • DocBook DSSSL stylesheets,

  • collateindex,

  • sgmltools,

  • HTML tidy,

  • HTML split,

  • sed,

  • runsed,

  • awk,

  • dvips,

  • and all the standard software used in a GNU/Linux system.

• nukeforums for providing a Forum for the initial stages of this project (see the PHP-Nuke book translation thread), as well as all its numerous readers for their questions and answers - who have influenced many solutions presented in this document. Special thanks go to its most active members

  • Humpa,

  • Chatserv,

  • Chris-au,

  for all the useful advice. I've learned a lot from you!

• Paul S. Owen for his contribution in Chapter 10 on session management.

• Mark Pilgrim for writing Dive into Accessibility and publishing it under the GNU Free Documentation License.

• All authors of documentation used in various places (see Section 1.5):

  • PHP-Nuke,

  • PHP manual,

  • MySQL manual,

  • A Brief Introduction to Regular Expressions,

  • Apache Documentation of mod_rewrite,

  • CSS3 Paged Media Module,

  • Debian Newbiedoc Project.

• Matterform Media for providing QBullets for free.

• Didi for Figure 24-2.

• Martin Kaspar for inspirating discussions on PHP-Nuke documentation.

• Last, but not least, Gloomy for all the moral support during the hard times.

The translators would like to thank the Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) and its reviewers, especially Tabatha Marshall and Greg Ferguson for their comments and efforts to make this document available from TLDP's plattform to a wider audience.