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I tested this a couple of weeks ago ... and I got really tired of it ... I installed it, and all I got was an empty page ... I de-installed, and re-installed ... same thing ... then I looked at the sourcecode the browser was showing ... and I saw a couple of short tags *sigh* ...  they had mixed short and proper php tags throughout the code, even though the recommendation from php is to use proper tags when distrobuting code to other ... either way ... I did some tricks to find all the occurrences ... and also noticed they used short echo aswell   .... I replaced all short tags to proper tags, rewrote the short echo's to proper echos in a bunch of files ... I then managed to log in ... but there were still pages non functional ... like the plugin page ... so I gave up ... wasted enough time on it ...

probably going to look for some other cms in the near future ... a clean one

well i hadn't used it much before then i downloaded it to see how easy it would be to integrate with punbb, but it just seemed horrible to use

PHP-Fusion just released v6 and is much better than their last release. it's tied with XooPs for my favorite.

Textpattern is by far the best CMS out there. I spent ages looking for the right one. It reminds me of PunBB because it's light, powerful and easy to use. Of course there is a bit of a learning curve but once you've got your head around it nothing can stop you doing exactly what you want.

PunBB + Textpattern = Website perfection

Things to understand/remember

Textile - seems annoying at first but is actually much quicker and easier than html once you get the hang of it

Plug-ins - Are just PHP scripts. Handy because there is a huge archive at you disposal and you don't need to know the first thing about PHP.
Forms - Are main thing it takes a while to get but once you do you've pretty much figured out Textpattern.

Keep asking any questions you have on there forum or check the Textbook