MediaWiki Administrators’ Tutorial Guide

This book covers the open-source MediaWiki wiki engine from installation and getting started through structuring your collaborative website, advanced formatting, images, multimedia, security, and managing users to backing up, restoring, and migrating your installation and creating new MediWiki templates. This book is for competent computer users who want to run MediaWiki. They should have some knowledge of HTML and have used a wiki before. No PHP knowledge is required for most of the book, although some chapters at the end include some PHP code. More details about the book can be found at: http://www.packtpub.com/M ediawiki/book

Mastering phpMyAdmin 2.8 for Effective MySQL Management

This book is an upgrade from the previous version that covered phpMyAdmin Version 2.6. Written by a member of the development team, this book serves as a comprehensive guide to helping you unlock the full potential of phpMyAdmin 2.8 This book will show you how to increase your productivity and control when working with your databases. You will learn how to: -Administer MySQL users and privileges, and get statistics about MySQL servers and databases Manage databases, table data and structures, and indexes,-Use bookmarks and metadata,-Generate multiple SQL queries,-Generate better documentation of evolving table structures.

ImageMagick Tricks

This fast paced and practical tutorial is packed with examples of photo manipulations, logo creation, animations, and complete web projects. With this book up your sleeve, you'll be creating spellbinding images from code in no time. Using this book, you can: -Install the ImageMagick software on your own computer or a server -Create exciting text effects and produce eye catching logos and headings -Create impressive image manipulations and animations on-the-fly from the command line or within your programs -Complete PHP-based sample applications show how to use ImageMagick to add pizzazz your web site -Slice, dice, and filter your images turn simple photos into mind-bending designs and illusions -Write web applications such as an advanced e-card generator, and even create your own Packt book cover! -Generate ImageMagick scripts in MSL using the conjure utility -Create thumbnails by converting file types, resizing, and cropping to consistent size, aspect ratio.

Moodle E-Learning Course Development

A complete guide to successful learning using Moodle, focused on course development and delivery and using the best educational practices. Moodle is relatively easy to install and use, but the real challenge is to develop a learning process that leverages its power and maps effectively onto the content established learning situation. This book guides you through meeting that challenge. Once you read this book, you will: -Understand what Moodle can do, how it compares to other e-learning packages, and how it can support your teaching strategies -Install the Moodle software on your own computer or a server, and understand your way around it -Know how to create different kinds of courses. Understand all of Moodle's learning feature. -Manage students Beginners to the software will get a thorough guide to how the software works. Experienced Moodlers will find powerful insights into developing more successful and educational courses.

Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications

It will help you to: -Install and configure Smarty on your Web server, -Understand how Smarty affects your web site architecture, and build site foundations that make the most of what Smarty offers, -Designers will learn to work with templates that contain variables and logic, to modify layouts or content of Smarty web sites, -See how Smarty caching can improve the performance of your sites, -Develop custom Smarty functions and plug-ins to incorporate into your templates, This book is written for PHP developers who want to use Smarty templates in their development, and for designers who are working with PHP developers who are using Smarty.

Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites

A complete guide to every aspect of creating a variety of different websites using Drupal. A trove of well-considered and practical information is presented in a logical and intuitive manner so that you can either build up your site step by step by reading from cover to cover or, alternatively, focus on your specific needs by diving into each chapter as required. This book will suit anyone who has a need to create a content rich website. Whether you are: -Adding a personal web page -Building a forum -Writing a collaborative book -Retailing goods -Creating a blog -Launching a community Website This book will prove to be an indispensable companion. Both experts and beginners to computing alike will find the information contained herein to be accessible and easy to intuit.

AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications

Assuming a basic knowledge of PHP, XML, JavaScript and MySQL, this book will help you understand how the heart of AJAX beats and how the constituent technologies work together. After teaching the foundations, the book will walk you through numerous real-world case studies covering tasks you’ll be likely to need for your own applications: Server-enabled form-validation page Online chat collaboration tool Customized type-ahead text entry solution Real-time charting using SVG Database-enabled, editable and customizable data grid RSS aggregator application A server-managed sortable list with drag&drop support using the script.aculo.us JavaScript toolkit. This book is for web developers willing to build better web applications. A basic knowledge of PHP, XML, JavaScript and MySQL, or a strong will to learn-as-you-type, is assumed.

Building Websites With Joomla.

The book begins by introducing Joomla! and concepts behind content management. Then the installation of Joomla!, and its supporting software [Apache/MySQL/PHP] is covered clearly and simply. Once you have the installation up and running, we then take a tour of Joomla! as it appears out of the box, to familiarize ourselves with how it works and what is what. As you take the tour, your own ideas for what you need in your new website begin to crystallize around what you can see Joomla! is capable of. We then build our web application, using only the features of Joomla! we really need. Once we have a base version of our site up, we then learn how to change its appearance and feature set to suit our particular requirements, including bringing it into line with an established corporate identity. At the end of the book we show how you can add your own extensions to Joomla!.

Implementing SugarCRM

'A step-by-step guide to using this powerful Open Source application in your business.' -Assess your business's CRM requirements, and start using SugarCRM effectively straight away -Covers both the free and commercial versions of SugarCRM – get maximum benefit from the free version before paying for add ons -Your complete guide to SugarCRM implementation – assess your needs, install the software, start using it, train users, integrate with existing systems

phpEclipse: A user guide

PHPEclipse brings PHP functionality to the Eclipse platform, enhancing it as an environment for developing web applications and focusing on what PHP web developers need to create an application. This book teaches you: -Finding your way around the Eclipse environment -Working with the PHP editing features of PHPEclipse to correct your PHP syntax -Configuring and using the debugger to help troubleshoot PHP code -Using PHPDocumentor to quickly create documentation for your code -Interfacing to SQL databases using the QuantumDB plug-in -Managing your source code repository from within Eclipse -Deploying your application to production servers via FTP, SFTP, WebDav -Using Ant to deploy your PHP applications