The purpose of this series of articles is to show how the many technologies seen in play on the FHA website are assembled to create the Bulletin Board, which is by far the most-visited and popular page on our website. They are written to make people aware of these technologies and perhaps to take an interest in learning them. At the very least, we hope anyone reading this will be able to track the flow of logic and control in this simple page, and if necessary, extend and/or change its appearance or behavior.
Note: Some of the articles will be formatted in two columns, like a newspaper, if you remember them. This is done by inserting at the very beginning of the article: ‘{_module [135]}’ (with the underscore removed – no space between ‘{‘ and ‘m’, and of course, no quotes).
{module [135]}Implementing the Bulletin Board within the Joomla Content Management System (CMS) was a near-trivial exercise, given that Joomla itself is implemented having all content (articles), users and other support structures managed using a sophisticated database management system (DBMS) called MySQL. MySQL...
{module [135]}In the years before the current, Joomla-based website came to be, the FHA website was a static site built with Microsoft Front Page, a 1990s component of Microsoft Office. The site was 100% HTML with limited “active” content provided by what were called Microsoft...