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Building Websites with PHP-Nuke

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Building Websites with PHP-Nuke

Overview of this book

PHP-Nuke is a free tool for managing the content of a dynamic website. As one of the most popular applications on the Internet, PHP-Nuke has grown into a complex, powerful tool with an extraordinary range of features, and a loyal community of supporters. Through a web-based interface, users can edit and manage their site without the need for knowledge of web programming. PHP-Nuke is ideal for running a community-driven website, where visitors create accounts, comment and interact with the site, and contribute material in an easily managed fashion. PHP-Nuke has many of the features you would want from a website such as news stories, ratings, comments, discussion forums, and its look can be easily controlled with the use of themes. If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore PHP-Nuke, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about realizing this. Throughout the book we develop an example site, as you are taken on a detailed tour of the features of PHP-Nuke. You will be introduced to the main components of PHP-Nuke, and learn how to manage them. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content on the site, and also understand how users work and interact with the site. To make sure that you create a site that looks the way you want it to, the book covers customizing themes to help define your look for your pages. Although PHP-Nuke allows you to accomplish much without doing any web programming, to extend your site you will need to get your hands dirty with some coding. The book leads you through adding custom code to PHP-Nuke, and shows you how PHP-Nuke puts pages together, and the functions it uses for the fundamental operations of the site.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Building Websites with PHP-Nuke
Building Websites with PHP-Nuke
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
An Introduction to PHP-Nuke
An Introduction to PHP-Nuke
What PHP-Nuke Can Do for You
What Exactly is PHP-Nuke?
PHP-Nuke as an Open-Source Content Management System
Getting Help in the PHP-Nuke Community
The Dinosaur Portal
Summary
2
Installing PHP-Nuke
Installing PHP-Nuke
Downloading PHP-Nuke
Downloading the Patches
Preparing the PHP-Nuke Database
Configuring PHP-Nuke
Putting PHP-Nuke Files into the Web Server Root
Testing the Installation
Summary
3
Your First Page
Your First Page
Your New Homepage
Blocks
Modules
Creating the Super User
Becoming the Administrator
Restricting User Access
Summary
4
Managing the Site
Managing the Site
Your Site, Your Database
Visiting the Administration Area
Site Preferences
The Cookie Crumbles
Backing Up the Site Database
Managing Blocks
Managing Modules
Summary
5
Managing Users
Managing Users
Ingredients of a User
Setting Up a New User
The Your Account Module
Rewarding the User
Managing Other Administrators
Summary
6
Story Management with PHP‑Nuke
Story Management with PHP‑Nuke
The Story Story
Organizing Stories
Topic Management
Adding Stories
The Visitor View of a Story
Story Management
Finding Stories
Special Administrator
Points and Prizes
Sharing your News
Polls and the Surveys Module
Summary
7
Content Management Modules
Content Management Modules
Content
FAQ
Encyclopedia
Web Links and Downloads
Reviews
Module Feature Comparison
Summary
8
Managing the Discussion Forums
Managing the Discussion Forums
Forum Structure
The Forums Administration Area
The Visitor Experience
Forum Permissions
Moderating the Forum
Summary
9
Customizing Layout with Themes
Customizing Layout with Themes
What Does a Theme Control?
Theme Management
From an Existing Theme to a New Theme
Adding a Favicon
Page Output from Start to Finish
Summary
10
Programming PHP-Nuke
Programming PHP-Nuke
What Happens When a Page is Requested?
Creating a Block
Data Access in PHP-Nuke
Module File and Folder Structure
Creating a User Submissions Module
Summary
Installing XAMPP
Installing XAMPP

Configuring PHP-Nuke

We need to tell PHP-Nuke where to get its data from, and how to get that data. This requires us to provide the name of the database and the database user we just created. We add this information into the config.php file located in the html folder of your PHP-Nuke installation.

To do this, open the config.php file in your favorite text editor (Notepad or Wordpad will do fine).

Scroll down to find these five consecutive lines:

$dbuname = "root ";
$dbpass = "";
$dbname = "nuke";
$prefix = "nuke";
$user_prefix = "nuke";

These five lines are PHP variable definitions that determine the username and password of the database user account that will access the database, and the name of the database that we will be accessing, and the table name prefix. PHP-Nuke uses these to connect to its database, so they had better be correct.

The first thing we will do is change the database username and database password to those of the database user we created earlier. Edit the lines as follows...

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