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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

What is a Theme?


Back in the mid 1970s, programming code became so immense that changing even the smallest part of a piece of code could have unpredictable effects in the other areas of the program. This led to the development of a concept called modular programming, which essentially broke the program down into smaller more manageable junks that were called upon by the main program when needed. The term for modular programming these days is separation of concerns or SoC. But no matter what you call it, this is its function.

In e107 a theme contains a set of modular code containing XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). In its most basic explanation, XHTML allows us to take a text document, create a link to other documents, and the eXtensible part of the language allows you to create your own tags describing data. Thus a program like e107 can use these tags to extract the information it needs. The data shouldn’t show up on the screen like a computer...