In this chapter we have had a lengthy tour of the PHP-Nuke administration interface, and accomplished some of the basic tasks of site management.
We looked first at the Web Site Configuration menu in the site Preferences. From here we set a number of global properties of the site, such as its name, its URL, and its description. It is important to set these early on when creating a new site, particularly since the URL of the site appears in emails generated by the system. There were a number of panels in the Web Site Configuration menu; we will encounter more of them as we move through the book.
Next we looked at creating a backup of the database. This is a very important task and should be performed regularly, since the PHP-Nuke database is your site. If something were to happen to it, you would lose all your site content, users, configuration settings, and so on, so taking regular backups will be important as soon as your site has any amount of traffic.
Block and module management...