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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)

Date and Time


These modules allow you to display date and time-related information. We will install the following module as an example:

  • Name: extCal

  • Version: 2.0.13.1

  • URL:http://www.xoops.org/modules/repository/

  • Description: Calendar and events module for XOOPS that allows you to display a calendar on your website and add events into that calendar.

After installing this module, we will rename it to Calendar using System Admin | Modules. This will display a link called Calendar under the main menu. When someone clicks on this link, it will display a calendar with any event listed or highlighted on that calendar.

Similar to the News module, the Calendar module requires that you first create categories and then post new events into those categories. These events will have a start and end date and time. Older events can be pruned (or removed) using System Admin | Modules | Calendar | Pruning.

We will create a category called Public Holidays as follows using System Admin | Modules | Calendar |...