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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)

Creating a New Theme


We will now take you through creating a brand new theme. This is not as hard as it seems, and may be necessary to create a truly unique look for your website. We will show you how to create the major parts of a theme.

However, we will put a twist to things; rather than just walk you through creating a new theme, step by step, we will convert the Mollio theme from www.mollio.org into a XOOPS theme. The reasons for this are:

  • It will give you the foundation to convert themes from other content management systems to XOOPS, and thus contribute to the XOOPS community if you decide to share these creations.

  • It will let you build new themes more easily, without having to reinvent the wheel.

In the previous section, we showed you how to modify an existing XOOPS theme. Now, we will convert a non-XOOPS theme into a XOOPS theme.

To get started, you will need to download the Mollio theme package file from http://www.mollio.org, or from our demo website at http://xoopsbook.steveatwal...