“Mastering TypoScript” is a complete guide to understanding and using TypoScript, TYPO3's powerful configuration language. Users can also understand how to present different views of content with different menu entry types. With the help of Mastering TypoScript book users will understand the objects, properties, operators, and data types in TypoScript. Users can also understand how to present different views of content with different menu entry types. The book helps in designing and developing templates along with extension in TYPO3. TypoScript also allows users to generate graphics at run time and display different content dynamically. This book is suitable for TYPO3 developers, administrators, and designers who want to develop fully featured TYPO3 websites using the power of TypoScript.

“Creating your MySQL Database” book takes a practical approach, implementing all theoretical concepts with examples. It is a fast-paced tutorial that focuses on critical decisions that you need to make every time you build MySQL databases. It is rich with tips and advice from an experienced practitioner. “Creating your MySQL Database” is a short guide for everyone on how to structure your data and set-up your MySQL database tables efficiently and easily. This book has practical examples from initial ideas to final designs. This book doesn't set out to make you an expert in data analysis, but it does provide a quick and easy way to raise your game in this essential part of getting your application right.Anyone working with applications that use a MySQL database backend will benefit greatly from the advice and techniques in this book. Written by the creator of the popular phpMyAdmin tool, this book is a short but complete guide on how to design good data structures for MySQL.

WordPress is an open-source blog engine released under the GNU general public license.“WordPress Complete” is a beginner's guide to WordPress, for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner. It has clear practical coverage of all aspects of WordPress. If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore WordPress showing you what it offers and how to go about building your blog with the system.You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. In working through the book you'll be inspired as well as informed, and have the capability and the ideas to make your blog cutting edge and exciting to maximize its impact.

“The PEAR Installer Manifesto” will show you a new way of organizing your PHP development, by leveraging the full power of the PEAR Installer. PEAR Installer is the preferred PHP software for installing PHP components. You will also learn how to use the power of PEAR to manage your web projects with the PEAR installer to bring the power of versioning and rollbacks to your live website. The synergy of the PEAR Installer and a revision control system like CVS or Subversion is also explored in depth. Finally, you will learn how to embed the PEAR Installer inside your own web application in order to manage plug-ins from a remote server. “The PEAR Installer Manifesto” covers in detail designing a custom plug-in system for a fictitious blog application. The plug-in system is used to manage templates, and the PEAR Installer is used to manage the details of querying the remote server for templates, handling dependencies between versioning, and doing the actual installation process as well.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!.