Web Design & Development Guide
XOOPS
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| Stable release: | 2.0.16 (2006/11/17) [+/-] |
| Preview release: | 2.2 () [+/-] |
| Use: | content management system |
| License: | GNU General Public License |
| Website: | XOOPS Official Site |
XOOPS is a free content management system, written in PHP, for websites. It uses a modular architecture allowing users to customize, update and theme their websites. XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and is free to use, modify and redistribute. XOOPS is supposed to be pronounced phonetically as it would be in English, as "zoo'ps".
The XOOPS project was awarded First Runner-Up status in the SourceForge.net's 2006 Community Choice Awards in the Development category.
Overview
XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Though started as a portal system, XOOPS is developing as a content management system. It aims to serve as a web framework for use by small, medium and large sites, through the installation of modules. For example, a small XOOPS installation can be used as a personal weblog or journal, but this can be expanded upon and customised, for example users might add the appropriate modules (freeware and commercial) to store content in news, forums, downloads, and more.
Steve Atwal wrote a book called Building Websites with Xoops (ISBN 1904811280) about XOOPS.
Key features
- Community
- Because XOOPS is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) the growth and development of XOOPS is dependent on the contributions of a worldwide community effort.
- Database
- XOOPS uses a relational database (currently MySQL) to store data required for running a web-based content management system.
- Advanced access control layer
- Webmasters have the ability to grant specific groups of users specific access rights to content and features such as edit, delete, upload, add attachments, publish content, and so on.
- Modularized
- Modules can be installed, uninstalled, activated, and deactivated using the module administration system.
- Core features usable by modules
- XOOPS possess interesting core features that can be used by modules like permissions, comments, notifications and blocks features.
- Personalization
- Webmasters have the ability to set specific permissions for user access and control of individual elements of their websites.
- User Management
- The ability to search for users by various criteria, send email and private messages to users through a template-based messaging system.
- International language support
- The XOOPS community has official support sites around the world for non-English-speaking users. Additionally XOOPS itself supports multi-byte character sets for languages that use characters not in the Latin alphabet, for example Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, etc.
- Theme-based skinnable interface
- XOOPS uses themes for page presentation. Both administrators and users can change the look of the entire web site by selecting from available themes.
- Templates
- XOOPS uses the Smarty templating engine which allows many benefits such as easier separation between business logic and presentation logic as well as content caching.
- Built-in LDAP authentication
- A lot of SEO add-on
See also
External links
- Official website
- XOOPS Official Documentation Site
- Browse code documentation
- International XOOPS Support Sites
- Sites Using XOOPS
- XOOPS Core Development Site
- XOOPS Module Development Forge
- XOOPS SourceForge project page
- The SmartFactory : home of the SmartModules, high quality modules for XOOPS
- Xoops-Magazine
- Xoopsfactory, XOOPS Site of the Month
- Free Themes for Xoops
- XOOPS Themes: Free and commercial Themes for Xoops
- Free XOOPS Themes
- XOOPS at the Open Directory Project
- Xoops Romania