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Building Websites with e107

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Building Websites with e107

Overview of this book

e107 is a PHP-based content management system that uses the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. e107 is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is completely free, totally customizable and in constant development. 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.If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore e107, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about building a site with the system. The book covers all the core features of e107, and it is thorough and incremental tutorial approach it gives you the understanding to experiment with advanced features and customization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building Websites with e107
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Creating the Front Page


The moment you have been waiting for has finally arrived! We will be now creating the first page for our website. But before we make the first page we need to cover a couple of things. First you can control whether the front page data should be dynamic (changes constantly) or static (stays the same). The second thing is you can create different front pages for visitors, members, administrators, or any other user class you create. The fantastic thing is that you only need to enter the information for each, as the theme will take care of the layout for you. We will be covering adding content in detail in Chapter 7 so for now we will just whet our appetites by creating our front page.

Creating a Dynamic Front Page

When you click on Home in the administrative interface you are taken to the front page of the site. The text that you see on this page has been entered as a news item. We will learn more about configuring the news post in Chapter 7. For now we are going to...