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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)

Communication


The modules for communication are those that allow users to interact with each other, or those that allow you to collect information from your visitors, such as contact forms and polls. We will install the following module as an example:

  • Name: Liaise

  • Version: 1.26 (note that version 1.5 is not compatible with XOOPS 2.0.15)

  • URL:http://www.brandycoke.com/products/liaise/

  • Description: Liaise is a module for XOOPS that provides customizable contact forms, using form elements such as checkboxes and radio buttons.

For additional communication-related modules, visit the XOOPS website.

The first step will be to install the module onto our demo website as follows:

  • Extract the file using any software for unzipping files.

  • Upload the Liaise folder to the /public_html/xoopsbook/modules/ folder on your site using your FTP client.

  • Log into XOOPS on your website and then install Liaise and activate it.

Note that after installing the module, we can allow everyone to use the forms generated by this...