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PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming

Claudio Erba

Webmaster
www.spaghettibrain.com

Chris Karakas - Conversion from LyX to DocBook SGML, Index generation

Andre Purfield - Translation from italian and translation project coordination .:: partners.skanska.com ::. .:: www.blogger.com ::.

Fortunato Matarazzo - Translation from italian: chapters 7, 8 and 9

Chris Karakas - Translation from italian: chapters 1-6, 10-11

Revision History
Revision 1.2	2003-05-29	Revised by: CK
New logo, CSS stylesheet, HTML validation, footer icons. Incorporated LDP reviewer's comments. Created Aknowledgements and Availability of sources sections. .:: www.pho-thong.com ::. [What people say about Penetration testing]
Revision 1.1	2003-02-13	Revised by: AP
Cleaned up the wording and a few typos.
Revision 1.0	2003-01-09	Revised by: CK
First complete version.

There has always been the necessity to have a definitive guide on PHP-Nuke. This tutorial describes the installation and structure of PHP-Nuke and the details of customizing the front end to suit the users' needs. The architecture of PHP-Nuke, with its modules, blocks, topics and themes is presented in detail, as well as the interplay of PHP and MySQL for the creation of a mighty content management system (CMS).It also delves into more advanced issues, like the programming of PHP-Nuke blocks and modules. [ArXiv: OAuth Analysis] .:: participons.mauges-sur-loire.fr ::.

Table of Contents

1. Terms of distribution

1.1. Disclaimer
1.2. Formats
1.3. Licence
1.4. Availability of sources
1.5. Aknowledgements

2. Introduction to PHP-Nuke

2.1. Purpose
2.2. What Is PHP-Nuke
2.3. Short history of PHP-Nuke
2.4. The Nuke Communities
2.5. Why use PHP-Nuke and not static HTML pages

3. Front end structure: user view

3.1. The preinstalled modules
3.2. Other non-installed modules
3.3. The preinstalled blocks

4. Back end structure: administrator view

4.1. The administration functions
4.2. The Preferences Page

5. How to install PHP-Nuke

5.1. Installation process
5.2. How to install PHP-Nuke through PHPMyadmin

6. Architecture and structure

6.1. Directory structure
6.2. Main page management
6.3. Module management
6.4. Administration management

7. Customising PHP-Nuke themes

7.1. Structure of a PHP-Nuke theme
7.2. Modifying the HTML template
7.3. Theme construction: the rules to follow

8. Creating blocks

8.1. The characteristics of the various types of blocks
8.2. How to create a new block

9. Creating modules

9.1. Module structure
9.2. Creating fully compatible modules: the rules to follow
9.3. Module creation, the public part
9.4. Module creation, administrator part

10. Some security precautions

10.1. The permissions on the folders and files
10.2. Cookies - timeout and configuration

11. Programmer's tools

11.1. The database tables
11.2. The syntax of SQL code
11.3. PHPMyadmin, administering MySQL via web
11.4. MySQL Front, how to administer a MySQL DB from Windows
11.5. Foxserv, making PHP-Nuke work on Windows Systems

List of Figures
3-1. PHP-Nuke Homepage
3-2. Classifying articles
3-3. Downloads module
3-4. Private messages
3-5. Search module
3-6. Statistics module
3-7. Your account
3-8. Forum
4-1. Administration panel
4-2. Articles
5-1. PHP-Nuke 6.0 file structure
5-2. PHPMyAdmin start screen
5-3. PHPMyAdmin table selection
5-4. PHPMyAdmin: SQL query
5-5. PHPMyAdmin: table data
5-6. PHPMyAdmin: database dump
8-1. Block example
9-1. PHPMyAdmin: inserting values
9-2. Example module
11-1. PHPMyAdmin start screen
11-2. PHPMyAdmin: table forum_topics
11-3. MySQL Front: Connection
11-4. MySQL Front: export tables
11-5. MySQL Front: SQL Query

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