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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 a Company LDAP Server for Authentication


Many organizations, in their never-ending quest to simplify their operations, are centralizing user accounts and passwords with a central directory such as LDAP or Windows Active Directory. XOOPS is able to connect to these directories so that existing user accounts that are already set up in a corporate directory can be used to log into XOOPS. XOOPS will pick up these usernames and groups and allow you to assign permissions to modules based on them. This means that the administration of XOOPS is simplified and you do not need to duplicate usernames and passwords for all your employees within XOOPS. Just imagine having to set up three hundred new user accounts in XOOPS, when those accounts already exist, and then having to maintain those accounts as staff join or leave or require access to different modules and blocks!

To accomplish the mission of tying into your corporate directory for authentication, follow the steps below:

  1. 1. Navigate to...