Book Description
"A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own community website with PHP-Nuke
Step through creating your own web portal with PHP-Nuke
Simple and practical guidance to mastering PHP-Nuke
For people with basic knowledge of web development
In Detail
PHP-Nuke is a free tool for managing the content of a dynamic website. As one of the most popular applications on the Internet, PHP-Nuke has grown into a complex, powerful tool with an extraordinary range of features, and a loyal community of supporters. Through a web-based interface, users can edit and manage their site without the need for knowledge of web programming. PHP-Nuke is ideal for running a community-driven website, where visitors create accounts, comment and interact with the site, and contribute material in an easily managed fashion. PHP-Nuke has many of the features you would want from a website such as news stories, ratings, comments, discussion forums, and its look can be easily controlled with the use of themes.
If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore PHP-Nuke, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about realizing this.
Throughout the book we develop an example site, as you are taken on a detailed tour of the features of PHP-Nuke. You will be introduced to the main components of PHP-Nuke, and learn how to manage them. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content on the site, and also understand how users work and interact with the site.
To make sure that you create a site that looks the way you want it to, the book covers customizing themes to help define your look for your pages.
Although PHP-Nuke allows you to accomplish much without doing any web programming, to extend your site you will need to get your hands dirty with some coding. The book leads you through adding custom code to PHP-Nuke, and shows you how PHP-Nuke puts pages together, and the functions it uses for the fundamental operations of the site.
A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own community website with PHP-Nuke, the legendary, free, open source website content management system
"Book Description
"A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own community website with PHP-Nuke
Step through creating your own web portal with PHP-Nuke
Simple and practical guidance to mastering PHP-Nuke
For people with basic knowledge of web development
In Detail
PHP-Nuke is a free tool for managing the content of a dynamic website. As one of the most popular applications on the Internet, PHP-Nuke has grown into a complex, powerful tool with an extraordinary range of features, and a loyal community of supporters. Through a web-based interface, users can edit and manage their site without the need for knowledge of web programming. PHP-Nuke is ideal for running a community-driven website, where visitors create accounts, comment and interact with the site, and contribute material in an easily managed fashion. PHP-Nuke has many of the features you would want from a website such as news stories, ratings, comments, discussion forums, and its look can be easily controlled with the use of themes.
If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore PHP-Nuke, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about realizing this.
Throughout the book we develop an example site, as you are taken on a detailed tour of the features of PHP-Nuke. You will be introduced to the main components of PHP-Nuke, and learn how to manage them. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content on the site, and also understand how users work and interact with the site.
To make sure that you create a site that looks the way you want it to, the book covers customizing themes to help define your look for your pages.
Although PHP-Nuke allows you to accomplish much without doing any web programming, to extend your site you will need to get your hands dirty with some coding. The book leads you through adding custom code to PHP-Nuke, and shows you how PHP-Nuke puts pages together, and the functions it uses for the fundamental operations of the site.
A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own community website with PHP-Nuke, the legendary, free, open source website content management system
"Table of Contents
- Building Websites with PHP-Nuke
- Building Websites with PHP-Nuke
- Credits
- About the Author
- Preface
- 1. An Introduction to PHP-Nuke
- 2. Installing PHP-Nuke
- 3. Your First Page
- 4. Managing the Site
- Your Site, Your Database
- Visiting the Administration Area
- Site Preferences
- The Cookie Crumbles
- Backing Up the Site Database
- Managing Blocks
- Types of Blocks
- The Blocks Administration Area
- Adding Blocks
- Options for All Blocks
- Adding Other People's News with RSS/RDF Blocks
- Adding a File Block
- Time For Action—Adding the Total Hits Block
- 5. Managing Users
- Ingredients of a User
- Setting Up a New User
- The Your Account Module
- Rewarding the User
- Points on Offer
- Time For Action—Awarding Points for Viewing Pages
- Restricting Module Access to User Groups
- Time For Action—Restricting the Statistics Module to Frequent Page Viewers
- 6. Story Management with PHP‑Nuke
- The Story Story
- Organizing Stories
- Topic Management
- Adding Stories
- The Visitor View of a Story
- Story Management
- Finding Stories
- Special Administrator
- Points and Prizes
- Sharing your News
- Polls and the Surveys Module
- Summary
- 7. Content Management Modules
- Content
- FAQ
- Encyclopedia
- Web Links and Downloads
- Reviews
- Module Feature Comparison
- Summary
- 8. Managing the Discussion Forums
- 9. Customizing Layout with Themes
- What Does a Theme Control?
- Theme Management
- From an Existing Theme to a New Theme
- Starting Off
- Templates and PHP Files
- Changing the Page Header
- Time For Action—Changing the Site Logo Graphic
- Time For Action—Changing the Site Header Layout
- Time For Action—Fixing and Adding the Topics List
- Time For Action—Adding a Welcome Message to the User
- Time For Action—Adding the User Avatar
- Time For Action—Adding a Horizontal Navigation Bar
- Time For Action—Changing Some Background Colors
- Working with the Stylesheet
- Changing Blocks
- Changing Story Layout
- Changing the Footer
- Adding a Favicon
- Page Output from Start to Finish
- Summary
- 10. Programming PHP-Nuke
- What Happens When a Page is Requested?
- Creating a Block
- Data Access in PHP-Nuke
- Module File and Folder Structure
- Creating a User Submissions Module
- Module Development Steps
- Creating the Module Folder
- Creating the Database Tables
- The Visitor Code—the index.php File
- The User Submission Administration Area
- Creating the Administration Code
- Extending the Module
- Summary
- A. Installing XAMPP
- Points on Offer