<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The Preferences Page </TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming" HREF="book1.htm"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Back end structure: administrator view" HREF="c803.htm"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Back end structure: administrator view" HREF="c803.htm"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="How to install PHP-Nuke" HREF="c1179.htm"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c803.htm" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 4. Back end structure: administrator view</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c1179.htm" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="PREFERENCES" ></A >The Preferences Page</H1 ><P >Here are the parameters needed for the configuration of the config.php file through the admin/preferences area:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Site name: It corresponds to the <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#adef-title" TARGET="_top" >title</A > tag, it is what appears up in the right bar of the browser. It is very important for the <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.4" TARGET="_top" >search engines</A >.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Site URL: It is the internet address of your site.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Logo<A NAME="AEN1084" ></A >: It is the logo of your site. In standard themes and themes not modified much it is the Logo that appears up on the left.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Slogan<A NAME="AEN1088" ></A >: It is equivalent to the <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-META" TARGET="_top" >description</A > tag, it's also very important for the <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.4" TARGET="_top" >search engines</A >.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Beginning date of the site: It's the date that appears in the statistics module.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Administrator e-mail : it is the e-mail which will receive the notifications for article insertions by third parties and the mails from the "contact us" module.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Articles in Top Page: Specifies the number of news articles that can be displayed in the main page of the news module.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Articles in Home: Specifies the number of news articles that can be displayed in the home page of the site (if the news module is the main one).</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Stories in old articles box: Specifies the number of news articles that can be displayed in the old articles box.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Activate ultramode<A NAME="AEN1104" ></A >: specifies if other sites can take news titles from our site.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Allow anonymous to post<A NAME="AEN1108" ></A > : Specifies whether anonymous users can write comments.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Default theme: defines the default theme of the site.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Select language: defines the default language of the site.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >local time<A NAME="AEN1116" ></A > format: defines the format of the local time (Depends on the server, if it is running linux, this is controlled in <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="EMPHASIS" ><A HREF="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/intro-i18n/ch-locale.en.html" TARGET="_top" >/usr/share/locale</A ></I ></SPAN >)</P ></LI ><LI ><P >activate the multilanguage<A NAME="AEN1122" ></A > characteristics: choose whether the site should support a multilingual functionality or not</P ></LI ><LI ><P >display the small flags in place of the list: if the multilingual option is activated then this decides whether the block should display the small state flags in place of a list of language names.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >activate banners<A NAME="AEN1128" ></A > : sets up the option to use banner rotation on the site.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >For the footer of the page, imagine we have to insert 3 texts in a table that is 100% wide and positioned centrally:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >Page Footer<A NAME="AEN1135" ></A > Line 1: first text to insert</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Page Footer Line 2: second text to insert</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Page Footer Line 3: third text to insert</P ></LI ></UL ></LI ><LI ><P >Backend<A NAME="AEN1143" ></A > title: The title that will appear in the file from which other sites get our newsfeed.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Backend language: language for the newsfeed file.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Notify new insertions via e-mail: It defines whether the administrator gets an e-mail when a user inserts a news article.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >E-mail address to send the message: e-mail to which the notification message will be sent.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >E-mail subject:</P ></LI ><LI ><P >E-mail message: notification text (e.g. "you have received a new article").</P ></LI ><LI ><P >E-mail account (From): who has sent the message.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Moderation<A NAME="AEN1159" ></A > type: chooses whether a moderation should be set up for the comments or not.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Comment limits in Bytes: sets up the maximum size for the comments.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Default anonymous user name: assigns a name to the persons who chose to remain unregistered.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Graphical administration menu: sets up whether to have icons or text in the administration area.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Minimal length for the user's password: for security reasons it is advisable to set up a rather long password.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Activate referring HTTP: whether statistics regarding the origin of the visits should be gathered.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >How many referrers you want maximally: the maximum number of statistics pertaining to the origin of the visits (max 2000).</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Activate comments<A NAME="AEN1175" ></A > in surveys: Whether comments are allowed in the surveys or not.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >Activate comments in articles: Whether comments are allowed in the articles or not.</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c803.htm" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.htm" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c1179.htm" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Back end structure: administrator view</TD ><TD 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