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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)

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 menu structures

  • piCal 0.51 for showing a calendar with events

  • WF-Downloads 2.05a for creating a section for downloading files

  • XoopsPoll 1.0 for creating polls through which users can cast their vote

  • SmartFAQ 1.04 for showing frequently asked questions

  • SmartSection 1.0 for creating categories and subcategories for managing news, and so on

The first thing to do will be to decide the modules that you want to use based on the functionality they provide for your corporate employees. For our fictional corporate entity, we will use all of the modules in the IntranetPack except for SmartFAQ and SmartSection, the functionality of which we should be able...