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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)

Chapter 7. Case Study: An Intranet Portal

To build a website that has some useful functionality for your corporate employees, you need to add the right modules for your needs. The IntranetPack is a free package that contains some modules commonly used to build a company portal. Depending on your needs, you may wish to install some or all of these modules.

We will look at how you can use this package to create your own company portal. We will look at:

  • Using the IntranetPack

  • Other module packages

  • Using a company LDAP server for authentication

As before, we will install the modules and show how they work on our demo website at http://xoopsbook.steveatwal.com.

Using the IntranetPack

The IntranetPack can be downloaded from the XOOPS website at www.xoops.org/modules/core/singlefile.php?cid=9&lid=100 and it contains the following modules:

  • News 1.4 for display of articles and news by date

  • CBB 2.2 for discussion forums

  • DokuWiki 1.0 for an internal documentation Wiki

  • MultiMenu 1.7 for creating customized...