Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress de Robert T. Douglass

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Robert T. Douglass

Mike Little

Jared W. Smith

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 dec 2005

Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.
Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.
Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

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Cuprins

Drupal.- Introducing Drupal.- Configuring Drupal.- Using the Drupal Core Modules.- Adding Contributed Modules.- Adding and Customizing Themes.- Maintaining Your Site.- phpBB.- Introducing phpBB.- Installing and Configuring phpBB.- Touring phpBB’s Features.- Securing and Maintaining phpBB.- Modifying phpBB.- Styling phpBB.- WordPress.- Introducing WordPress.- Installing and Configuring WordPress.- Starting to Blog and Building Your Community.- Changing the Look of Your Blog.- Customizing Your Blog’s Layout.- Maintaining Your Blog.

Notă biografică

Robert T. Douglass is a core developer and member of the security team for the Drupal project. As a leading voice in the Drupal community, he works hard to introduce new programmers and webmasters to the joys of building websites with Drupal. To this end, Robert headed Drupal's involvement in the Google Summer of Code, 2005. Robert is a freelance Drupal consultant and programmer, working out of his home in Germany.

Caracteristici

Content management, blogging, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these tasks The authors have played active roles in project development and community support (Mike Little is actually a Wordpress project co-founder) Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are based on the PHP language and MySQL database server, ensuring the widest possible audience