FWIW Boyink.com is still a pM site, and I have several clients still humming along on pMachine .

I had *just* redesigned boyink.com around the time EE came out, so just wasn’t that inclined to go through it again.  I know I will at some point…

Hello everyone, I’ve been told that pMachine will eventually become unusable—probably when the next mySQL table format change happens…

....any thoughts on this?

Frida

You’ve been told by whom?  What evidence did they cite?

Chris:

1)A friend of a friend.
2)None whatsoever.  I am somewhat skeptical given many experienced web designers continue to incorporate pmachine into their sites, and it would seem they wouldn’t do this if pmachine were to become obsolete anytime in the near future.  I’m posting here in the hope that someone can prove this claim wrong.  I myself use pmachine and am very happy with it, so I’d hate to have to switch because of something like this.

Thanks,

FF

Well, there’s certainly no guarantee of “forward compatibility” against something that simply doesn’t exist yet (a new version of PHP or MySQL that isn’t released).  pMachine Pro will certainly continue to work on the PHP/MySQL versions on which it currently runs, though.

I am another Pmachine user.  I had V1.3 for a long time and I am upgrading to Pro/2.4.

I just use it for Journals, and I have no need to upgrade it to something like EE/MT/Wordpress. 

For My purposes Pmachine is just fits the bill perfectly.

There are better Journaling software available but I don’t need the extra functionality.  The Pblocks and forums will give me what I need for my web journals for now.

From the Voice of another crab.

While I usually deploy EE based sites for my clients, some specific circumstances had me looking into pMachine lately (meaning I’m not a ‘still around’ pMachine user, but will very soon be a, well, ‘new’ pMachine user) - and I have to say that searching for information, addons/hacks et al gives very poor results (so far) unfortunately.

So yes, your idea sound definitely like something I could use.

I’m going to install pMachine Pro on the new version of my site. I can’t justify spending the money on EE, especially considering that I have next to no readerships, and pMPro offers everything I need—including a forum. In short, I have every reason to believe that pMachine is still vital.

another crab here. i love pMPro. does all i need. i have bought an EE license but to date have not used it. and i did not realize i could have more than one website up. so will be using for my virtual servers in the near future. but in the meantime pMPro does what i need.

I agree. At present pMachine does all I need, and then some. Not interested in encouraging clients into overkill. I would appreciate a wiki happening. Recently went looking for something on Sue’s site, only to find an absence of it. I was used to using it. So doing a search on the pMachine forum to find something I knew was there led me to a link which no longer functioned. And so on.

I find pMachine a very flexible platform, and would be happy to support a wiki in some way (as yet undetermined.)

And anyway, how come I’m still a junior member? Joining in 2002 should make be a veteran!

I can add more stuff to my site for pMachine—I reinstalled and lost some of my older content.

pMachine is still a great way to do smaller sites. I have a system in place where I create a template .html file then create my whatever.php file with those items, and include the template.html file.

So about.php has about 4 lines in it.

If I need to change the look and feel of the entire site, I just change the master .html file.

I love my pmachine pro, however in the past few days I’ve been getting the same errors that some with EE have been getting as described EE knowledge blog] in the knowledge blog for EE.

If there is no way to fix this then sadly I will have to find something else that suites my needs, that doesn’t cost so much.

Which version of pMachine are you running?

Updated Version of pMachine to Fix Only Variables Should be Assigned by Reference

I’m using pmachine pro 2.4

so essentially reinstalling pmachine with the download on the page will correct this?

Sue - 19 November 2005 06:05 AM

pMachine is still a great way to do smaller sites. I have a system in place where I create a template .html file then create my whatever.php file with those items, and include the template.html file.

So about.php has about 4 lines in it.

If I need to change the look and feel of the entire site, I just change the master .html file.

I don’t quite follow… but i do wish to learn more. This sounds like an intriguing way to easily update a site.

Yes, Yes, Yes…

So now that EE 1.4 Core is out, what does that mean for Pm Pro? Thoughts?

Death? Haven’t actually compared EE Core features to pmPro though.
pmPro is still a nice little system and probably simpler to get the hang of. With EE, there is still the learning curve of TemplateGroups/Templates unless you just run a standard base install and don’t customize much.