Drupal 6: Attachment Views, Page Views, and Theming
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J. Ayen Green | February 2010 | MySQL Content Management Drupal PHP Web Development
This article by J.Ayen Green, author of Drupal 6 Attachment Views, gives us an introduction to Attachment Views in Drupal.
Here's what we'll do in this article:
- Learn what an Attachment view is
- Learn what you can do with an Attachment view
- Consider in what situations an Attachment view can be useful
- Cover basic view theming
- Create a Page view
- Create an Attachment view
- Theme the view
MediaWiki Content Organizing Features: Namespaces, Categories
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Mizanur Rahman | February 2010 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
One of the important aspects of content management is organizing the content that we create. Managed content looks much better than haphazard content for both authors and readers. Since MediaWiki works in a multi-user environment, it is necessary to maintain well organized content so that editing and reviewing becomes easier for users.
In this article by Mizanur Rahman, author of MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide, we will see:
- Why organizing content is important for a site
- Some of the MediaWiki content organizing features like namespaces and categories
Your First Page with PHP-Nuke
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Douglas Paterson | February 2010 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
In the previous article by Douglas Paterson, author of Building Websites with PHP-Nuke, you learned how to install PHP-Nuke on a local machine running an Apache/MySQL/PHP (AMP) environment.
In this article, which is the third article of the article series, you'll familiarize yourself with a visitor's-eye view of the PHP-Nuke world and make your first modifications to the site.
Read Your First Page with PHP-Nuke in fullMediaWiki Content Organizing Features: Templates, Sections, Redirection
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Mizanur Rahman | February 2010 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
In the previous article by Mizanur Rahman, author of MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide, we discussed the importance of organizing and managing content for a site. We also studied some of the MediaWiki Content Organizing Features like Namespaces and Categories.
In this article we will see various MediaWiki Content Organizing Features like Templates, Sections, and Redirection.
Read MediaWiki Content Organizing Features: Templates, Sections, Redirection in fullManaging Image Content in Joomla!
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Allan Walker | February 2010 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Next to text content, images are one of the most utilized multimedia resources in web pages. They can be used to inform and educate the reader, offer help with navigation, and to enhance the design and user's overall visual experience.
Whether you need to create multimedia image galleries in your Joomla! website or simply add images to your articles and modules, this article will provide the assistance to help utilize image content effectively within your Joomla! website. In this article by Allan Walker, author of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, we look at:
- Creating image galleries and slideshows
- Template images
- Joomla! Image Extensions
- Browser support and accessibility for images
Adding Image Content in Joomla!
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Allan Walker | February 2010 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Next to text content, images are one of the most utilized multimedia resources in web pages. They can be used to inform and educate the reader, offer help with navigation, and to enhance the design and user's overall visual experience.
This article by Allan Walker, author of Joomla! 1.5 Multimedia, will provide the assistance to help utilize image content effectively within your Joomla! website. We look at:
- Why we use images in websites
- Image formats and which ones to use
- Including images in articles and modules
Installing PHP-Nuke
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Douglas Paterson | February 2010 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
In the previous article of the article series by Douglas Paterson, author of Building Websites with PHP-Nuke, we looked at features provided by PHP-Nuke for its visitors, the functionalities to make site maintenance easier, and what exactly is PHP-Nuke.
In this article, which is the second article of the article series, you will learn how to install and configure PHP-Nuke, apply patches, and also create the database. At the end of this article you will have a fully operational PHP-Nuke site, ready to go!
Read Installing PHP-Nuke in fullAn Introduction to PHP-Nuke
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Douglas Paterson | February 2010 | MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
This article series by Douglas Paterson, author of Building Websites with PHP-Nuke, begins with an overview of PHP-Nuke; what it is, and what it can do to help you build your own community-driven website. We shall learn all the features and functionality provided by PHP-Nuke by developing an example site, the Dinosaur Portal, as we progress through this series.
In this article series, we will cover:
- An Introduction to PHP-Nuke (see below)
- Installing PHP-Nuke
- Your First Page
- Managing the Site
- Managing Users
- Story Management with PHP-Nuke
- Content Management Modules
- Managing the Discussion Forums
- Customizing Layout with Themes
- Programming PHP-Nuke
Building a Calender Application in Joomla! using Fabrik
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Suhreed Sarkar | February 2010 | Joomla! MySQL Content Management Open Source PHP
Joomla! has many extensions that can help develop a custom application, especially simple form-based applications. With introduction of Content Construction Kits (CCK) now it is possible to create many types of contents without knowledge of coding PHP. Besides these newly introduced Content Creation Kits, there is another application builder for Joomla! that can be used to build database applications without coding PHP. It is called Fabrik. Fabrik is Joomla! application builder that can be used for building many types of applications. In this article by Suhreed Sarkar, we will learn how to build a event calendar application for Joomla! using Fabrik.
Read Building a Calender Application in Joomla! using Fabrik in fullPHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects: Your Own Video Jukebox: Part 1
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Shu-Wai Chow | February 2010 | AJAX MySQL Open Source PHP Web Development
In this article by Shu-Wai Chow, we will begin with a project to create our own personalized video jukebox. This mashup will pull music lists feeds from the social music site, Last.fm. We will parse out artist names and song titles from these feeds and use that information to search videos on YouTube, a user-contributed video site, using the YouTube web service. We will also take a look at the three different XML-based file formats from those two sites: XSPF for song playlists, RSS for publishing frequently updated information, and YouTube's custom XML format. Rather than creating our own XML-based parsers to parse the three formats, we will use parsers from PEAR, one for each of the three formats. Using these PEAR packages, we will create an object-oriented abstraction of these formats, which can be consumed by our mashup application.
Read PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects: Your Own Video Jukebox: Part 1 in full
