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...