Produktinformation

• Amazon-Verkaufsrang: #438272 in Bücher
• Veröffentlicht am: 2008-10-10
• Abmessungen: 1.22" h x 7.32" b x 9.60" l, 2.12 Pfund
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• 560 Seiten

Kurzbeschreibung
Whether you want to build a community with a content management system, a bulletin board, or a blog, Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress is the authoritative guide using Open Source software. Drupal (http://www.drupal.org/) is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of web site you desire, from an eCommerce to a community-based site. With phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/) you can set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is fast becoming the software of choice for the exploding blog community. Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts, including Jared Smith, a long time support team member of the phpBBHacks.com web site who has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases, and Mike Little, the founder and a contributing developer of the WordPress project.

Synopsis
Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends. Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL. Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and Wordpress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases.

Über den Autor
Robert T. Douglass - Robert is a very active member of the Drupal community; he regularly submits patches to the core Drupal code and is the maintainer of several modules, including the media and subscription modules. In 2005, due to the growing popularity of Drupal, he became a freelance Drupal consultant and programmer working out of his home in Germany. His most recent project is NowPublic.com, a Drupal-powered site which unites the citizen journalist with the blogosphere. Mike Little - Mike is one of the founders of the WordPress project and is still a contributing developer. He has been programming professionally for 15 years in a variety of languages including PHP, Java, JSP, Perl, and assembler. Jared W. Smith - Jared Smith has several years’ worth of experience administering, styling, and modifying the phpBB bulletin board software, and has been designing Web sites in some form for several years before that. He was among the original Support Team members at phpBBHacks.com – the leading distributor of modifications and templates for phpBB – where he now serves in an advisory role