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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)

Authentication Options


The Authentication Options screen can be selected using System Admin | Preferences | Authentication Options. This screen can be used to integrate XOOPS with an Enterprise authentication system. In other words, if you already have a username and password database that can be accessed using LDAP, then XOOPS can be set to use that database for users trying to log into XOOPS. Only users that exist in this LDAP database can then log into XOOPS. In order for this to work, the web-host firewall must also allow access out on port 389 to connect to the LDAP server.

By default, XOOPS uses its own built-in database to store usernames and passwords for users that are registered to use the XOOPS website. So unless you need to tie your installation of XOOPS into an existing authentication system, you can leave the data on this screen as it is.

We will discuss this further in Chapter 7 when we perform an intranet portal case study.