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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)

Installing XOOPS


Download the latest stable release of XOOPS to your local computer. We will use XOOPS 2.0.15, since that was the latest stable release available for download at the time of writing this book.

Uncompress the XOOPS.zip file to a folder on your computer, as shown below:

I like to use Windows Explorer to create a folder called C:\Download into which I extract all files downloaded from the Internet.

The only folder you need is the htdocs folder; other folders are not needed for a new installation of XOOPS, so you can ignore those.

For a local installation of XOOPS, simply copy the contents of the htdocs folder into a new folder inside the \xampplite\htdocs folder. This is useful if you decide to test multiple installations of XOOPS, each with a separate website. Thus, you may be testing the following websites, which are all running a copy of XOOPS independent of each other:

  • \xampplite\htdocs\website1

  • \xampplite\htdocs\website2

  • \xampplite\htdocs\website3

For a hosted installation...