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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)

User Info Settings


To access this option, click on the System Admin icon to show the System Configuration screen. Then, click on Preferences to show the Site Preferences screen, and from there click on Edit next to User Info Settings, which will allow you to change settings that can be applied to all users and their login. Following are the options available on the settings screen:

  • Allow New User Registration may be used to allow or disallow new users to become registered users of your site with their own login username and password. This may be set to No if you feel you have too many users and you need to put a cap on this, which may be due to many users requesting restricted content that is driving up your traffic and bandwidth costs with your web-host.

  • Select activation type of newly registered users allows you to specify how users will be authenticated; either validating automatically by XOOPS or sending a validation email to a user by XOOPS before they can login (recommended method...