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Building Websites with e107

You're reading from   Building Websites with e107 A step by step tutorial to getting your e107 website up and running fast

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2007
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811312
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Building Websites with e107
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. An Introduction to e107 2. Installing e107 FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Site Preferences 4. Customizing the Look and Feel of Your Site 5. Customizing Your Site for e-Commerce with Plugins 6. Customizing Your Site for Business with Plugins 7. Adding Content to e107 8. Information Dissemination 9. Maintenance, Optimization, and Security Resources

The Forum Plugin


If you visit any business website, you will find a forum. It can be open to the public, restricted to registered members, or it may be an internal forum only for employees or for both visitors and employees. Sometimes it is set up for peers to help peers solve problems. By controlling access to view and post by user class, we can easily achieve this level of control.

Normally, before you would install this plugin you would plan the parent categories (topical subdivisions), the forums (the topics within those categories), and the permissions level for viewing, posting, and administering the forums. The main purpose of breaking information into parent levels is to assist users in finding things faster, so resist the urge to over categorize.

Installing Forum

The Forum plugin is one of the core e107 plugins. As you know this means that we have uploaded it to the server when we installed e107. To install the plugin we need to do the following:

  1. 1. Log on to our website as administrator...

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