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http://www.xoops.org/themes/xooriginalnew/logo.png XOOPS is at once a software package,
- a network of Web sites and a very friendly and supportive XO-community spread all over the world. The tie that binds together software, sites and community is the Web, the graphical face of the Internet.
To learn about the sites all you need to do is to point your browser to any of the XOOPS sites and there youll feel the warmth and strength of the community. To learn about the software, your best bet is to download the latest package and begin playing with it.
What? No documentation? Yes, we know (remember? Weve also been there). XOOPS suffers from a lack of enough good documentation, and though this has been an effective incentive for many a webmaster, for many more it has been a turnoff.
Thats part of the reasons behind this manual. Its part of a really much wider and deeper collective effort that goes under the moniker XOOPS Documentation Project and that is being tackled slowly but surely by a team of dedicated xoopsers (or xoopers, as some others call XOOPS fans: xoopies?).
So this manual will explain, with enough detail to also serve as a reference guide, the main workings of XOOPS, the software. Since theres already another document called XOOPS Installation Guide (XU-002), well assume in this document that youve already installed your XOOPS package and have now a live XOOPS site. Well deal here with that oh-so-very-common-question that comes up once an again: what do I do after I install my XOOPS?
Ok. Were ready to begin. If youre set, lets proceed at the beginning.
XOOPS is a tool to manage dynamic Web sites. This simple definition may serve you to have an initial grasp of the usefulness of this singular package. But its so general that its almost as saying nothing. Lets try again. XOOPS is an open source set of scripts written in PHP that, when installed with internet Hosting that has support for PHP, a web server such as Apache, and a MySQL database manager, allows the easy creation of dynamic, complex and content-rich Web sites, from personal weblogs or Blogs all the way up to corporate portals.
XOOPS means eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System, and even though some call it ex-oh-oh-pi-es, the standard pronunciation of XOOPS is more like zoops
Derived from other open source projects (XOOPS is a descendant of the venerable PHPNuke, through a branch called myPHPNuke. A good part of the package was completely rewritten, although there are inside the scripts pieces of old code that show their age when compared with the most recent parts.
As its ancestors, XOOPS is strongly oriented towards the construction of community sites. But it is flexible enough to serve as a single-webmaster site (a blog, for instance) and as an enterprise content-oriented portal.
In this introductory chapter, well take a quick look at some of XOOPS main features. In later chapters well see in detail how is it that XOOPS does its magic.
XO-community * world * scripts * Blogs * Hosting
