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Before you dive into this book, I would like to first extend my warm welcome to you as you enter the world of XOOPS. XOOPS is an acronym of e X tensible O bject O riented P ortal S ystem. It is an open-source application platform and Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. It is built for developing a variety of solutions in a modular fashion, for both small and large interactive dynamic community websites, company portals, intranets, weblogs, and much more. By installing different modules, you can build quite different websites.
XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is free to use and modify. It is also free to redistribute as long as you abide by the distribution terms of the GPL.
XOOPS is shipped with a nice installer and can be easily deployed on a web-hosted server. In XOOPS 2.5, a more user-friendly backend administration has been introduced. This makes managing a complex website very easy and intuitive. You need almost no programming knowledge to build a website!
Due to the very flexible architecture of XOOPS, a developer (or even an advanced user), can create a vast variety of applications on top of XOOPS, including diaries, team rankings for sporting events, school administration systems, photo galleries, newspapers/ magazines, and sophisticated ecommerce packages.
The most common application for XOOPS is as a CMS. With powerful modules contributed by developers all over the world, you can create and manage content easily.
XOOPS uses Smartyone of the most popular template engines in PHPas its template engine. This makes it easier for designers to get used to the syntax. You dont have to deal with raw PHP code.
In addition, XOOPS is equipped with a lot of Smarty plug-ins to make life easier for designers.
XOOPS has a robust user management system. This is a key feature for applications like community websites. Users can search for other users by various criteria, or send email and private messages to other users through a template-based messaging system. And there are social network modules for XOOPS that can help enhance user interaction. XOOPS also has a powerful and user-friendly permissions system, which enables administrators to set permissions by group.
XOOPS was created and is maintained by a team of several hard-working volunteers located all over the world. The XOOPS community has more than a dozen official support sites around the world for non-English-speaking users. XOOPS fully supports multi-byte languages, including Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, and so on.
If you have any questions, the community can always help you. And as you become an expert on XOOPS, please join the community and make your own contribution!
The roots of XOOPS go back to PHPNuke, which was created by Francisco Burzi in 2000. As it sometimes happens within open source projects, a few of the developers who worked on PHPNuke decided to create something closer to their vision for a CMS, which they felt should be written with Object Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and technology. The result of their work became what we know today as XOOPS.
Over its 10 years of existence, XOOPS has reinvented itself many times. Besides being one of the OOP pioneers in the CMS area, it was also one of the first to add the Smarty templating system. Although Smarty is somewhat controversial, no one can deny that using it is much easier than using raw PHP code to create themes. In addition, we can take advantage of different Smarty plug-ins to enhance its flexibility.
Now XOOPS is evolving again. This time, it has been rewritten from scratch using the Zend Framework. While currently in Alpha release, the new versions release is planned for the end of 2011.
This book covers the whole workflow of building a XOOPS theme from scratch.
, generally describes the workflow and introduces the basic concepts that you need to know. It briefly covers how to set up Apache, PHP, and MySQL environments for XOOPS. Ill also talk about what tools you need to build a theme.
, starts by introducing the plain framework for themes. Although you can build your theme from a blank XHTML file, it simply takes too much time and requires a lot of thinking. By using the simplest theme framework, I will introduce the template engine structures of XOOPS.
, mainly introduces how to apply an existing XHTML template to XOOPS. This will give you a more thorough look at the template engine.
, introduces more details on CSS styling. It will also illustrate how to create a XOOPS theme using 960 Framework for XOOPS, and how to make use of the theme framework to save time and code.
, briefly discusses how to add jQuery and jQuery-based UI libraries to the theme to achieve complex effects. Two detailed case studies will help give you a deeper understanding of this subject.
, covers the module template override. This allows you to control the template of each individual module by your XOOPS theme. jQuery integrations will also be discussed in this chapter
, mainly discusses block anywhere techniques.
, will summarize all youve learned in previous chapters in a case study: well go from an idea to a complete website.
To take it to the next level, see the materials available on the books support site at http://insraq.me/book/. If you have the ebook, you were also given a file named cny_sale_package.zip that contains premium themes (which I hope will help your studies), free to those who purchase this book. If you purchased a hard copy, you can get these themes by going to http://insraq.me/book/follow the instructions there and use the coupon code DFXT11.
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