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XOOPS is at once a software package,
- a network of Web sites and a very friendly and supportive community
spread all over the world.
The tie that binds together software, sites and community is the
Web, the graphical face of the Internet.
To learn about the sites all you need to do is to point your
browser to any of the XOOPS sites and there you’ll feel the warmth
and strength of the community. To learn about the software, your best
bet is to download
the latest packageand begin playing with it.
What? No documentation? Yes, we know (remember? We’ve also
been there). XOOPS suffers from a lack of enough good documentation,
and though this has been an effective incentive for many a webmaster,
for many more it has been a turnoff.
That’s part of the reasons behind this manual. It’s part of a
really much wider and deeper collective effort that goes
under the moniker “XOOPS
Documentation Project” and that is being tackled slowly but
surely by a team of dedicated xoopsers (or xoopers, as some others
call XOOPS fans: xoopies?).
So this manual will explain, with enough detail to also serve as a
reference guide, the main workings of XOOPS, the software. Since
there’s already another document called “XOOPS
Installation Guide (XU-002)”, we’ll assume in this document
that you’ve already installed your XOOPS package and have now a live
XOOPS site. We’ll deal here with that oh-so-very-common-question
that comes up once an again: what do I do after I install my XOOPS?
Ok. We’re ready to begin. If you’re set, let’s proceed at the
beginning.
XOOPS is a tool to manage dynamic Web sites. This simple definition
may serve you to have an initial grasp of the usefulness of this
singular package. But it’s so general that it’s almost as saying
nothing. Let’s try again. XOOPS is an open source set of scripts
written in PHP that, when installed with internet hosting
that has support for PHP, a web server such as Apache, and a MySQL
database manager, allows the easy creation of dynamic, complex and
content-rich Web sites, from personal weblogs or Blogs
all the way up to corporate portals.
XOOPS means eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System, and even
though some call it ex-oh-oh-pi-es, the standard pronunciation of
XOOPS is more like “zoops”
Derived from other open source projects (XOOPS is a descendant of
the venerable PHPNuke, through a branch called myPHPNuke. A good part
of the package was completely rewritten, although there are inside the
scripts pieces of old code that show their age when compared with the
most recent parts.
As its ancestors, XOOPS is strongly oriented towards the
construction of community sites. But it is flexible enough to serve as
a single-webmaster site (a blog,
for instance) and as an enterprise content-oriented portal.
In this introductory chapter, we’ll take a quick look at some of
XOOPS main features. In later chapters we’ll see in detail how is it
that XOOPS does its magic.
Source
Reference for download the latest package.
INDEX * 1. General principles * 1.1. The XOOPS core * 1.2. Modules * 1.3. Blocks * 1.4. Users and groups * 1.5. Content * 1.6. Language files * 1.7. Themes and templates
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