When you have even a reasonable number of stories on your PHP-Nuke site (and you will have—that's why you're reading this book!), you will be in need of some organization for this content.
PHP-Nuke provides two ways of organizing story content:
Topics: what it's about
Categories: what type of story it is
Topics define what a story is about. By organizing your stories into topics, stories about similar subjects will be grouped together for easy browsing and reading, and also to make it easier for people to contribute their stories to the right place.
When you're reading through a number of dinosaur-related stories, the sudden appearance of a story about cars would be rather off-putting (unless it was actually about fossil fuels or dinosaurs eating/driving cars).
PHP-Nuke does indeed offer organization of stories into topics, and before we can think of adding stories, we need to set up some topics for our stories.
A topic has an associated image that is displayed on the...