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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

Summary


In this chapter we have seen how to add users to your site and how users are able to register themselves on your site, and have explored the personal area for each user provided by the Your Account module. Within the Your Account module each user is able to create their own Journal, which can be used to record their opinions, and can be viewed and commented on by other visitors to the site.

We also saw aspects of how to manage the users of your site, such as creating a subscription for a particular user. Subscriptions are typically used to restrict module access only to fee-paying customers. We also looked at user groups, and saw how PHP-Nuke can award points to users when they participate in site activities. When a user collects enough points, they can become a member of a user group, and possibly earn themselves access to restricted modules.

Finally, we looked at creating other administrator accounts that are less powerful than the super user account. These administrators, or authors...