Programming PHP-Nuke

In the previous article of the series by Douglas Paterson, author of Building Websites with PHP-Nuke, we transformed the look of the Dinosaur Portal with the help of a new PHP-Nuke theme. In this article, which is the concluding article of the article series, we will look at programming PHP-Nuke. Specifically, this means creating new blocks and modules. Before we get stuck into that, we will have a look at what actually happens inside PHP-Nuke when a page is requested by a browser.

After that, we will create a new block, a better version of the Dinosaur of the Day block we created in Article 4. That, if you recall, was a static HTML block, and we had hard-coded the image of the dinosaur and its title into the block. Here we will create a block that takes the image to display and title of the dinosaur from the database. This will introduce us to data access in PHP-Nuke, a topic that you will use a lot as you begin to code more with PHP-Nuke.

Documentation with phpDocumentor: Part 1

In this two-part article by Dirk Merkel, author of Expert PHP 5 Tools, we will take a look at documentation. We will learn to create code-level documentation using phpDocumentor, PHP's entry into the xDoc family of documentation tools and the de facto standard for documenting PHP code. Specifically, we will install phpDocumentor. Next, we will learn the general syntax for DocBlocks and how to run phpDocumentor to generate the documentation.

Interactive Page Regions with Drupal 6: Part 1

In this two-part article by J. Ayen Green, author of Drupal 6 Attachment Views, you will learn the following:

• How to configure Drupal's Contact system
• What the default Contact system does (and does not do)
• How to add just a little pizazz to a page with an Attachment view and a module
• How to add the Contact form to a view
• The first steps you need to take with Drupal's module architecture and hook mechanism
• How to modify the Contact form via a custom module
• How to use an add-on module to make the Contact form available in a view
• How to create an Attachment view

Drupal and Ubercart 2.x: Customizing a theme

In the previous article we saw how to replace the default Drupal theme by installing a ready-made theme, free or commercial, and use it as is. In this article by George Papadongonas and Yiannis Doxaras, authors of Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x, we will learn learn how to customize your frontend, to get the look and feel of your site to match your corporate visual identity. You will learn to use your company logo and colors to create a familiar and friendly environment for your visitors.