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Building Websites with XOOPS : A step-by-step tutorial

By : Steve Atwal
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Building Websites with XOOPS : A step-by-step tutorial

By: Steve Atwal

Overview of this book

<p class="MsoNormal">XOOPS is an open source web content management system, written in PHP. It allows administrators to easily create dynamic websites with great content and many outstanding features. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It has a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.<br /><o:p><br /></o:p>If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore XOOPS, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about building a site with the system.<o:p></o:p><br />You will be introduced to the main components of XOOPS, 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 interact with the site. As you find your way round, your own ideas for what you need in your new website begin to crystallize around what you can see of the capabilities and flexibility of XOOPS.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">To make sure that you create the site that looks the way you want, the book covers working with themes to help define your look for your pages. A case study of developing an example Intranet rounds off the book.<o:p></o:p></p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Past and Future of XOOPS


XOOPS has evolved from several products. First there was ThatWare, a Slash clone written in PHP. Then PHPNuke came along and was written on top of ThatWare. PHPNuke was written in PHP and used MySQL for a database.

For various reasons, many of the PHPNuke developers decided to create a new version of PHPNuke and named it PostNuke; one of the reasons stated was that the developers wanted to address the security concerns of PHPNuke. However, some criticisms of PostNuke are that the developers change the APIs too frequently and that PostNuke is too heavy on computer processing power. PostNuke has in turn created a new branch, first called LostNuke and then Xaraya, created by some of the key developers of PostNuke.

XOOPS appears to be an object-oriented rewrite of PHPNuke. The XOOPS development teams believe that a system that uses objects is more secure and easier to develop and maintain.

More detailed information about upcoming XOOPS releases and the roadmap for XOOPS is available at http://devteam.xoops.org.