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275 lines
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>The characteristics of the various types of blocks</TITLE
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>PHP-Nuke: Management and Programming</TH
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>Chapter 8. Creating blocks</TD
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>8.1. The characteristics of the various types of blocks</H1
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>There are 3 different types of PHP-Nuke blocks:</P
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>RSS/RDF: They capture news that's available from other sites in standard reading format, i.e. text (For example the site <A
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HREF="www.spaghettibrain.com"
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TARGET="_top"
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>spaghettibrain</A
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> has a lot of news that are at other sites' disposal).</P
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>Blocks of contents: blocks in which we insert simple text or HTML text that will be then displayed inside the block (See following example)</P
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>Blocks of files: They are PHP scripts that execute fixed commands (see <A
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>Section 8.2</A
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>)</P
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>In this paragraph we will see a simple example of how to insert the links and the text in a text block. If you already know a little HTML there is no point in following this example.</P
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>We suppose you want to insert a block with text and a link to 3 different sites:</P
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>The Webmaster who wrote this book manages the following sites:</P
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HREF="http://www.spaghettibrain.com"
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>spaghettibrain.com</A
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></P
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></LI
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><A
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HREF="http://www.spaghettiopen.com"
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TARGET="_top"
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>spaghettiopen.com</A
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></LI
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><LI
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HREF="http://www.spaghettipython.com"
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TARGET="_top"
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>spaghettipython.com</A
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>The text will be formatted in this way in order to be inserted in the block (see <A
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HREF="block-types.html#FIG-BLOCK-EXAMPLE"
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>Figure 8-1</A
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><B> webmaster </b> who writes this book manages the following sites: <b ><br>
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<a href="http://www.spaghettibrain.com">spaghettibrain.com</a>
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<a href ="http://www.claudioerba.com">claudioerba.com</a></PRE
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>Figure 8-1. Block example
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SRC="./images/snapshot15.png"><DIV
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>Block example</P
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>Some Small HTML lessons:</P
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>It is for bold text, it opens a tag. All words that we write after this tag will be bold until </B> (which closes the tag).</P
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><br></DT
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>It is for a page break, it does not need to be closed.</P
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><DT
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><ahref="http://siteyouwant.com">SiteName</a></DT
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>is used to open the http://siteyouwant.com.</P
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