Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133 EAN: 9781590598320 ISBN: 1590598326 Label: friends of ED Manufacturer: friends of ED Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 450 Publication Date: May 21, 2007 Publisher: friends of ED Sales Rank: 332760 Studio: friends of ED
Product DescriptionTextpattern is a powerful, PHP-based content management system that allows you to build pretty much any kind of data-driven website quickly and easily. It is very popular among designers and developers alike, and has an active community of users. Sound good? Well, you're in luck—this book shows you how to use every aspect of Textpattern to a professional standard. Textpattern (and this book) appeals to two main groups of people: Firstly, the web designer who has mastered the fundamentals of XHTML and CSS and wants to create sites that have fresh and dynamically changing information, but is not familiar with server-side coding and databases. Never fear—Textpattern enables you to integrate your XHTML knowledge, inserting dynamic aspects into your already solid site design. Secondly, PHP developers who are looking for a content management system upon which to build additional functionality and want a hand with the design aspects of their site. Again, Textpattern fills in those holes. The book leaves no stone unturned. It starts by introducing you to Textpattern and guiding you through its very simple installation process. After the core features of the administrative interface are explored, the book dives into building sites with TXP, using CSS, articles, forms, pages, and more to create fully customized templates. Development follows next, looking at installing plugins and building your own custom plugins to further enhance your Textpattern-based site. The book concludes with several case studies to provide ideas and inspiration, including a weblog, an e-commerce site, and an online review directory.
In this book you will:
Learn to develop websites quickly using Textpattern's intuitive templating language.
Learn to use Textpattern to build e-commerce websites, including customer feedback and reviews.
Learn to use Textpattern and web standards to create blogs and community sites with dynamically driven content.
Learn how to integrate your own style of coding and design with a content management system that catalyses, rather than hinders, your creativity.
Learn how to use PHP to create Textpattern plugins, adding custom functionality and features to uniquely suit the needs of your website.
Summary of Contents
PART ONE: GETTING STARTED
Chapter 1: Setting the Stage
Chapter 2: Installing Textpattern
PART TWO: THE TEXTPATTERN INTERFACE
Chapter 3: Site Administration
Chapter 4: Basic Content Manipulation
Chapter 5: Presentation
PART THREE: CUSTOMIZING TEXTPATTERN
Chapter 6: The Textpattern Model
Chapter 7: Creating the Content: Categories and Articles
Chapter 8: Customizing the Presentation: Sections, Pages, Forms, and Style
Chapter 9: Tying Content and Structure Together
Chapter 10: Comments
Chapter 11: Beyond the Basics
PART FOUR: EXTENDING TEXTPATTERN
Chapter 12: Custom Fields
Chapter 13: Using Plugins
Chapter 14: Writing Plugins
PART FIVE: TEXTPATTERN SITE EXAMPLES
Chapter 15: Multiauthor Weblog
Chapter 16: Case Study: PopularWeddingFavors.com
Chapter 17: Case Study: BoiseCityEats.com
PART SIX: APPENDIXES
Appendix A: Tag Reference
Appendix B: Plugin Developer Resources
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great Book on Textpattern
Extremely easy to follow and well written. My only problem was a lot of the times the illustrations or images weren't on the same page as their textual reference. Not a big deal, but I lost my place a lot while flipping back and forth through pages.
This book is really aimed at beginners. Luckily for me, I was one. Since I purchased this book a few months ago, I've made three sites using Textpattern and they've all been a hit with my clients. The admin interface is superbly easy to use ... Read More
Rating: - Good for beginners? For me, disappointing
I'd have liked to give this book more stars, because I do love Textpattern, but I just didn't get enough out of it. I don't consider myself an expert, but I've been using Textpattern for a couple of years. I'm not sure what I expected from this book, but mostly what I got was a validation that Yes, I'm doing this-or-that correctly or the most efficient way. I didn't gain a lot of new knowledge or tricks, except for the (small) section on plugins.
So this book might be good for Textpattern beginners, ... Read More
Rating: - Great resource
Textpattern solutions is a great resource for those looking to learn how to use this excellent Open Source CMS. The example site (Buzzbomb) is not quite as linear as I would have hoped and doesn't quite function like you would expect a tutorial to, but I was able to follow along with a little help from the TXP forums. Regardless, the book serves as a great launching pad to get into the nuts and bolts of the cms and begin creating your own sites using TXP. It is also the only book out there on the subject, ... Read More
Rating: - Poorly written book
I have been reading the e-book version and I am very dissapointed with this book. I needed a simple CMS for a 3 page site, and wanted an alternative to Jooma! which seemed overkill for this.
After doing some research I decided to use Texpattern due to its simple core, with this book as a guide. What can I say? The book is so poorly written that I am seriously considering to just use Joomla!
The authors use a sample site approach to illustrate how to use Textpattern. This usually is a great approach ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Book for a Wonderful CMS
Despite using Textpattern (TXP) since I started my own website I knew there was still a lot for me to learn and also a few things that could be improved with the way I setup my site. Needless to say when I got wind of this book there was no doubt in my mind that it would help me to be a better TXP user.
The book is well-written and takes you through every aspect of TXP. Everything and I mean everything about TXP is covered in this book. You'll learn the ins and outs of installation, navigating and accomplishing ... Read More
- Great Book on Textpattern
- Good for beginners? For me, disappointing
- Great resource
