Building Websites with PHP-Nuke. A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own community website with PHP-Nuke

Building Websites with PHP-Nuke. A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own community website with PHP-Nuke - Opis

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 (...) więcej 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. Spis treści:
Building Websites with PHP-Nuke
Table of Contents
Building Websites with PHP-Nuke
Credits
About the Author
Preface
What This Book Covers
What You Need To Use This Book
Conventions
Reader Feedback
Customer Support
Errata
Questions
1. An Introduction to PHP-Nuke
What PHP-Nuke Can Do for You
The Visitor Experience
The Management Experience
What Exactly is PHP-Nuke?
Modular Structure
Themed Interface
Multi-Lingual Interface
PHP-Nuke as an Open-Source Content Management System
Open Source
Content Management System
Getting Help in the PHP-Nuke Community
The Dinosaur Portal
Summary
2. Installing PHP-Nuke
Downloading PHP-Nuke
Extracting PHP-Nuke
Downloading the Patches
Applying the Patches
Preparing the PHP-Nuke Database
Creating the Database
Creating a Database User
Populating the Database
Configuring PHP-Nuke
Putting PHP-Nuke Files into the Web Server Root
Testing the Installation
Database Connection Problem
No Data in the Database
Still Having Problems?
Summary
3. Your First Page
Your New Homepage
Blocks
Modules
A Fistful of Default Modules
Creating the Super User
Becoming the Administrator
A New Welcome
Editing Text in PHP-Nuke
HTML Rules
Forbidden Tags
Adding Links
Adding Images
HTML Editor in PHP-Nuke 7.7
Time For ActionChanging the Welcome Message
Restricting User Access
Summary
4. Managing the Site
Your Site, Your Database
Visiting the Administration Area
Site Preferences
Turning off the Graphical Icons
The Cookie Crumbles
Backing Up the Site Database
Managing Blocks
Types of Blocks
Block Positioning
Block Visibility
The Blocks Administration Area
Time For ActionChanging Block Position
Adding Blocks
Options for All Blocks
Time For ActionAdding a Static Block
Adding Other Peoples News with RSS/RDF Blocks
Time For ActionCreating a New Headline Site
Time For ActionAdding the RSS/RDF Block
Adding a File Block
Time For ActionAdding the Total Hits Block
What Just Happened?
Managing Modules
Time For ActionActivating Modules
Editing Module Properties
Invisible Modules
Time For ActionEditing the Top 10
Adding New Modules
Time For ActionInstalling a Simple Module
What Just Happened?
Summary
5. Managing Users
Ingredients of a User
Setting Up a New User
Time For ActionSetting Up a New User Manually
What Just Happened?
Subscribing a User
Time For ActionRegistering as a User
What Just Happened?
Graphical Code for User Registration
Seeing Who's Who
The Your Account Module
Editing the User Profile
Your Account Configuration
Talking to the World with Public Messages
It's My Block and I'll Cry if I Want to...
Private Messages
User Journal
Your Journal Entries
Adding a Journal Entry
Viewing your Journal Entries
Peeking into the Journals of Others
Rewarding the User
Points on Offer
Time For ActionAwarding Points for Viewing Pages
What Just Happened?
Restricting Module Access to User Groups
Time For ActionRestricting the Statistics Module to Frequent Page Viewers
What Just Happened?
Managing Other Administrators
Authors versus the Super User
Creating an Author
Summary
6. Story Management with PHPNuke
The Story Story
The Story Publication Process
Finding and Interacting with Stories
Organizing Stories
Topics
Categories
Planning the Dinosaur Portal Topics and Categories
Topic Management
Time For ActionCreating New Topics
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionEditing Topics
What Just Happened?
Deleting a Topic
Adding Stories
Time For ActionAdding a New Story
What Just Happened?
Category Management
The Visitor View of a Story
Related Links, Scoring, and Friends
Everyone Has an Opinion... Comments
Time For ActionPosting a Comment
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionReplying to a Comment
What Just Happened?
Seeing Your Comments
Controlling Comment Posting
Allowing Comments
Disallowing Comments
Restricting Comment Posting to Registered Visitors
Administrator Removal of Comments
Filth Filter
Karma and Comment Moderation
Comments in Moderation
Time For ActionEnabling Comment Moderation
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionModerating Comments
What Just Happened?
Multiple Comment Moderation
Customizing the User View of Comments
Time For ActionFiltering out Comments
What Just Happened?
Story Management
Editing Stories
Deleting Stories
User-Submitted Stories
Setting Up the Mail Notification
Visitor Story Submission
Approving Stories
Finding Stories
From the Homepage
From the Topics module
From the Search module
From the Story Archive
From the Categories Menu Block
Special Administrator
Points and Prizes
Sharing your News
Polls and the Surveys Module
Attaching a Poll to a Story
The Surveys Module
Survey Management
Summary
7. Content Management Modules
Content
Time For ActionCreating a Content Category
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionAdding a Content Page
What Just Happened?
The Content Block
Managing Categories
Special Administrator
Restricting Access
Points and Prizes
FAQ
Time For ActionAdding a FAQ Category
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionAdding a FAQ
What Just Happened?
Managing FAQs
Editing a FAQ
The FAQ Block
Special Administrator
Restricting Access
Points and Prizes
Encyclopedia
Time For ActionAdding a new Encyclopedia
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionAdding a new Entry
What Just Happened?
Managing the Encyclopedia
Viewing the Encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia Block
Special Administrator
Restricting Access
Points and Prizes
Web Links and Downloads
Time For ActionCreating a Web Link Category Structure
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionAdding a Web Link
What Just Happened?
Interacting with Web Links
Checking the Web Link
Modifying Web Link Details
Reporting Broken Links
Submitting Web Links
Managing Web Links
Modifying Web Links
Managing User-Submitted Web Links
Managing User-Submitted Modification Requests
Managing User-Submitted Broken Link Notifications
Validating Links
Changing Category Structure
Time For ActionMoving Categories
What Just Happened?
Web Links Block
Special Administrator
Restricting Access
Points and Prizes
Reviews
Submitting Reviews
Interacting with Reviews
Managing Reviews
Customizing the Reviews Welcome Page
The Reviews Block
Special Administrator
Restricting Access
Points and Prizes
Module Feature Comparison
Summary
8. Managing the Discussion Forums
Forum Structure
The Forums Administration Area
Forum Configuration
Creating a Category
Creating a Forum
The Visitor Experience
Posting a Topic
Forum Permissions
Creating Groups
Setting Forum Permissions
Setting Group Permissions
Joining Groups
Approving the Membership Application
Moderating the Forum
Setting a Forum Moderator
Summary
9. Customizing Layout with Themes
What Does a Theme Control?
Appearance
Page Layout
Theme Management
Theme File Structure
Installing a New Theme
Removing an Existing Theme
From an Existing Theme to a New Theme
Starting Off
Replacing Traces of the Old Theme
Templates and PHP Files
PHP Files
Templates
Changing the Page Header
Time For ActionChanging the Site Logo Graphic
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionChanging the Site Header Layout
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionFixing and Adding the Topics List
What just Happened?
Time For ActionAdding a Welcome Message to the User
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionAdding the User Avatar
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionAdding a Horizontal Navigation Bar
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionChanging Some Background Colors
What Just Happened?
Working with the Stylesheet
Time For ActionBackground Image with Style
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionChanging the Links
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionChanging the OpenTable() Function
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionStyling the Navigation Bar
What Just Happened?
Changing Blocks
Time For ActionShow Right-Hand Blocks on All Pages
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionHide Right-Hand Blocks For Certain Modules
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionMaking the Block Titles Uppercase
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionCreating a New Block
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionMaking Right-Hand Blocks Different from Left-Hand Blocks
What Just Happened?
Changing Story Layout
Creating a Rounded Box
Creating the Corner Images
Creating the HTML
Creating the CSS
Time For ActionChange the Format of Stories on the Front Page
What Just Happened?
Variables Available in Story Formatting
Changing the Layout of the Story Extended View
Changing the Footer
Adding a Favicon
Including Custom Files
Page Output from Start to Finish
Summary
10. Programming PHP-Nuke
What Happens When a Page is Requested?
Where Does PHP-Nuke Get Information From?
Requesting a Page
Creating a Block
Time For ActionCreating the Database Table
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionCreating the Text File
What Just Happened?
Time For ActionCreating the Block Code
What Just Happened?
Data Access in PHP-Nuke
Module File and Folder Structure
Creating a User Submissions Module
Module Development Steps
Creating the Module Folder
Creating the Database Tables
The Visitor Codethe index.php File
Overall Structure of the Module index.php File
Tracking Down the Code for a Module Operation
Inviting the User to Submit an Item
Getting User Information
Preparing the ShowTypes() Function for Languages
Displaying the Form for User Input
Preparing to Add the Encyclopedia Entry
Storing the Submission
The User Submission Administration Area
Creating the Modules Administration Menu Entry
Selecting the Correct Administration Area
Creating the Administration Code
Displaying the List of Submitted Items
Editing and Approving the Submitted Item
Displaying the Submitted Item
Accepting the Submitted Item
Removing a Submitted Item
Deleting a Submitted Item
Extending the Module
Extending at the Front End
Extending at the Administration End
Summary
A. Installing XAMPP
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