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Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By : Eric Tiggeler
Book Image

Joomla! 1.6 First Look

By: Eric Tiggeler

Overview of this book

Release of the much awaited Joomla! 1.6 is just round the corner. There is a lot of hype and curiosity about the new features Joomla! 1.6 will provide and how it will affect existing users.Joomla! 1.6 First Look is a concise guide to the new features of Joomla! 1.6, targeted at existing Joomla! users and developers. If you want to see what's new in Joomla 1.6 and how it's going to affect you, this is the book for you. This book will give readers an insight into the new features of Joomla! 1.6, showing them what has changed, how the changes will affect them, and how to upgrade to Joomla! 1.6 from existing Joomla! versions. It begins with general changes in interface and basic articles, and then takes you through the changes in menus, control levels, templates, extensions, and SEO features. It explains the new features and how to use them, drawing attention to significant differences from how things used to behave. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the consequences these changes will bring to you as a Joomla! user or developer.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Joomla! 1.6 First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

ACL at work: how to control user permissions


Setting permissions involves the following three steps:

  1. 1. Create a user group (a group of people sharing the same permissions).

  2. 2. Tell Joomla! what the group can see or do. In other words, you assign a viewing access level and set the action permissions for this user group.

  3. 3. Add users to the group.

Let's find out how you can set permissions using this three-step approach. First, we'll open up the backend of the sample site for site designers: users who can only access and do things in the Template Manager. After that, we'll create a user group that's allowed to update the Events page on the site.

ACL example 1: allow specific users to manage contacts

Let's assume that you need a new type of user: someone who's able to administer the contacts database of your site, accessed through Components | Contacts. On the site you're building, the contacts database contains the names and contact details of all employees. You want to allow the company secretaries...