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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By : Tom Canavan
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Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook

By: Tom Canavan

Overview of this book

If you are a Joomla! site owner, you must already be aware of how this robust, easy to use, open source content management system can help you build a great looking site instantly. You must also be aware of the many problems that it can throw up from time to time. Find the solutions to all your basic and advanced Joomla! queries, so you don't have to wait for someone on the forums to help you out every time.The Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook will provide you with quick and direct solutions to the most common and uncommon problems faced by you, the Joomla! site owner, sidestepping all the theoretical fuss.Joomla! is the insanely popular, award winning content management system which helps you build professional looking websites, even if you don't have any HTML programming experience or design skills.Although, sometimes you might trip over some common pitfalls which would slow the progress of your website down. This book will help you find a direct and quick way through these common problems which can be easily avoided with a few tips and tricks. It starts of with solutions the most common queries that you might face during the installation and setup for Joomla! 1.5 moving on swiftly to guide you through Joomla! templates, modules, security, managing your users and much more. So the next time when things go wrong with your Joomla! site and you are wondering, for example, how to work with your site's database; just pick up this book and quickly find your way through this.

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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Installing Joomla!
Installing Joomla!
Introduction
Preparing to install
Setting up your database on a cPanel® host
Setting up your database on a GoDaddy.Com® server
Installation of Joomla! 1.5
Ensuring permissions are correct
2
Working with phpMyAdmin
Working with phpMyAdmin
Introduction
Exporting a MySQL database using phpMyAdmin
Importing a MySQL database using phpMyAdmin
Working with your database using phpMyAdmin
Removing a table from your database
Removing content from a table
3
Templates
Templates
Introduction
Installing the template using the administrator tool
Replacing the default administrator template
Manual installation of a template
Using more than one template on your site
Determining your templates' module positions
Replacing a logo in a template
4
Editing Content and Menus
Editing Content and Menus
Introduction
Installing a new editor
Setting up sections
Setting up categories
Article creation
Adding new menus
Setting up a blog on your Joomla! site
Adding an extension menu
5
Managing Links, Users, and Media
Managing Links, Users, and Media
Introduction
Managing users
Setting up a site contact
Working with media
Managing the login and user experience
Web Link manager
Changing lost super admin password
6
Managing Modules and Components
Managing Modules and Components
Introduction
Installing and managing components
Creating menu items for components
Installing, creating, and managing modules
7
Managing Articles Using the K2 Content Construction Kit
Managing Articles Using the K2 Content Construction Kit
Introduction
Installation and introduction of K2
Working with items AKA articles
Working with comments
Summary
8
Installing Third-party Extensions
Installing Third-party Extensions
Introduction
Installing and using eXtplorer
Using and configuring content uploader extension
jomCalendar
Using and configuring CompojoomComment
Summary
9
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Introduction
Developing a 'troubleshooting mentality'
Summary
10
Securing your Joomla! Site
Securing your Joomla! Site
Introduction
Setting permissions for your site
Patching
Patching extensions
Using .htaccess and php.ini
11
Joomla! 1.6
Joomla! 1.6
Introduction
Joomla! 1.6 ACL
Working with new category manager
Extensions
Appendix
Appendix
Usernames, passwords and database reference sheet
Turning the legacy mode on or off
Changing the favorite icon
Setting up a site in a subfolder
Questions to ask a prospective host
Checking and updating your server software
Index
Index

Introduction

In the first chapter and recipes, you were shown how to setup a database and establish users. The tool for driving this is called, phpMyAdmin.

phpMyAdmin is a popular, open-source tool that is a standard on most web hosts. Written in PHP, it enables you to handle all the administration of your MySQL database, keeping you from working in the command-line mode.

Here is an example of a command for setting up a new user:

CREATE USER 'jcookbookadmin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'MyPassword';

or creating a database

CREATE DATABASE jbookdb;

or assigning privileges to it

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON 'jbookdb' . * TO 'jcookbookadmin'@'localhost';

As you can see, attempting to remember all those commands is probably more than you want or need.

As Joomla! is primarily a database-powered system, from time to time you will need to know your way around phpMyAdmin for some of the tasks you may face.

One important item that phpMyAdmin can help you with is exporting your database. What this means is backing...

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