Book Image

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Book Image

CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - creating a backup with phpMyAdmin


The steps described here are only needed if you have no possibility to backup the database with the module described previously.

  1. 1. Log in to phpMyAdmin on your server (contact your provider to figure out the details as they can differ between web hosts).

  2. 2. Upon login, select Databases on the major screen:

  3. 3. Select the database used for a CMS Made Simple installation. If you are not sure, then open the config.php file and find the line $config['db_name'] that contains the name of the database.

  4. 4. Click on the database name in the list.

  5. 5. On the next screen, you will see the list of all tables in this database. Click on the Export tab at on the top of the list, as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. 6. In the left box, you can see all the tables selected. At the top of the screen, find the checkbox Save as file, and select it. Click the Go button.

  7. 7. You will be prompted to download a file. Save the file to your computer. Depending on the...