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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By : Hagen Graf
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Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5

By: Hagen Graf

Overview of this book

<p>Joomla! started as a fork from Mambo in 2005, when many of the original developers of the Mambo CMS moved to working on Joomla! It has rapidly grown in popularity and, according to its own description, is a "Cutting Edge Content Management System and one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management systems in the world. It is used world-wide for anything from simple homepages to complicated corporate websites. It is easy to install, easy to manage and very reliable."<br /><br />While the Joomla! CMS has the flexibility and power needed for complex, full-featured web applications, it is also simple to use to create basic websites. Its powerful, extensible template system can deal many different data types and control of user access, approval of content, scheduling of content display, and rich administrative controls are all included.</p>
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Building Websites with Joomla! 1.5
Credits
About the Author
Preface
3
A Tour of Your New Website
5
Configuration of Joomla! Administration
Online Resources
Template Modules
How Do I switch an Image (Logo) in the Template?
Joomla! API
Forgot the Admin Password
Security Without Global Variables
Index

Data Tables


Tables aren't always a problem. If you actually want to display data structures, they are the perfect choice.

Joomla! uses non-complex data tables at several places, for instance when displaying web links or in the contact overview.

In principle, data tables are accessible if they have been marked as such and if they have been appropriately programmed.

The headers attribute provides a link for every data cell (td) between this cell and a header (th) by naming the ID of the respective associated header or, since there could be several headers, by listing the IDs. This design is also used for Joomla! internal data tables.

You can hide the offered tables in the menu configuration of the web links or in the contact overview.

Tip

Caution

Please don't do that, since this will affect the accessibility of your data tables.