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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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Joomla! 1.5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Managing users


A normal but often over looked task is the management of users from your website. This can result in leaving users in who shouldn't be there. Other times, a user needs their details updated and so forth.

This recipe will guide you through several tasks related to the management of users.

Getting ready

You will need your Super Administrator login, and a couple of sample users to experiment with. We'll start with ADDING a user first that way you can build up a couple of samples for the rest.

You will also need to come up with names, email addresses, and passwords for them.

How to do it...

  1. Login into your Administrator Console. That is www.YOURDOMAIN.com/administrator.

  2. Open User Manager.

    You'll be taken into a list of your users and the actions that you can take for each. In this case, we'll need to create a new user.

  3. Click New to create a new user.

  4. The left side of the screen is where we'll start.

    • In this screen, fill in the Name (proper first and last name) of the user.

    • Choose a unique...