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Building Websites with PHP-Nuke

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Building Websites with PHP-Nuke

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building Websites with PHP-Nuke
Credits
About the Author
Preface
Installing XAMPP

Managing Modules


Modules are like limbs to the body of your PHP-Nuke site; they kind of stick out and do stuff for you. However, PHP-Nuke allows your system to have an almost indefinite number of limbs, er, modules, and also allows you to add or remove them with ease. In this section, that's exactly what we're going to look at.

First of all, return to the Administration Menu and click on the Modules icon:

This brings you to the Modules Administration area. This area is for administration of all modules, not the properties of individual modules. Individual modules such as Downloads, FAQ, and so on have their own sections in the administration area.

Visiting the Module Administration area like this also 'refreshes' PHP-Nuke's module list. If you have installed any new modules, then PHP-Nuke will detect them and add them to its list.

In the Module Administration area you will see some helpful text, describing some general instructions for module administration, and below that is a table from...