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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
Book Image

Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Working with new category manager


In Joomla!, articles are segmented by sections and categories. In Joomla! 1.5, you had the ability to lay out your site via this section and category segmentation.

In Joomla! 1.6, the sections are gone in favor of multiple nested categories setup. In other words, it can look something like this:

This enables administrators to set up unlimited levels of nested categories. You can control access to each of the various levels using the new ACL system in Joomla! 1.6.

Getting ready

There is very little work to do in preparation for this, except to figure out what your categories are. Don't worry if you aren't sure of the all the categories-you'll just need to have to think about a few categories as shown in the preceding screenshot:

How to do it...

  1. Login into the Joomla! Administrator using your administrator username and password.

  2. Open Content | Category Manager.

    Once opened, you'll see the following screen:

  3. The following steps are used to create the category:

    • Title:...