PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming

• Index
• Terms of distribution
• Disclaimer
• Formats
• Licence
• Availability of sources
• Aknowledgements
• Introduction to PHP-Nuke
• Purpose
• What Is PHP-Nuke
• Short history of PHP-Nuke
• The Nuke Communities
• Why use PHP-Nuke and not static HTML pages
• Front end structure: user view
• The preinstalled modules
• Other non-installed modules
• The preinstalled blocks
• Back end structure: administrator view
• The administration functions
• The Preferences Page
• How to install PHP-Nuke
• Installation process
• How to install PHP-Nuke through PHPMyadmin
• Architecture and structure
• Directory structure
• Main page management
• Module management
• Administration management
• Customising PHP-Nuke themes
• Structure of a PHP-Nuke theme
• Modifying the HTML template
• Theme construction: the rules to follow
• Creating blocks
• The characteristics of the various types of blocks
• How to create a new block
• Creating modules
• Module structure
• Creating fully compatible modules: the rules to follow
• Module creation, the public part
• Module creation, administrator part
• Some security precautions
• The permissions on the folders and files
• Cookies - timeout and configuration
• Programmer's tools
• The database tables
• The syntax of SQL code
• PHPMyadmin, administering MySQL via web
• MySQL Front, how to administer a MySQL DB from Windows
• Foxserv, making PHP-Nuke work on Windows Systems
• Index