4.6. System

The Admin Panel Manager allows you to create and remove panels and move modules between panels.

Module Category List
Displays a list of all module categories. To the right you will see links to edit and delete each module category.

Create Module Category
You can create a new module category by entering the name and description of your new category.

Admin Panel Settings
Allows you to change how the Admin Panels are displayed and the content of each panel.

• General Settings
• Ignore check for installer
  Warning! Only enable the above option if this site is isolated from the Internet, otherwise security could be endangered if you omit to remove the Installer script from the site root and are not prompted to do so.
• Display Settings
• Display icons
  Whether or not to display icons in the Admin Panels. If you would prefer simple text links, click this option.
• Modules per page
• Modules per row
• Theme to use
• Stylesheet to use
• Category initially selected
• Module Categorization
  Each module is listed and allows you to choose the Admin Panel to associate it with.
  

The Zikula Mailer allows the system to send e-mail to users.

• Test configuration
  Enter the appropriate information to send a test message
  
• Settings
  If you performed a test and everything worked well, don't change these settings.
  

The Modules administration is the heart of every Zikula installation.

View
Displays a list of all modules located in your modules folder on your server. You can filter the list by clicking on a letter of the alphabet, or by selecting an installation state from the drop down box on the right. The installation state drop down box is a quick and easy way to see which modules are in an error state.
In the module list, you will see modules that you might be familiar with and some that are for system use only and cannot be accessed directly.

• Name
  This is the internal name of the module as used by the system. If the module has an administration interface, you can click on the name to access it.
• Display Name
  This is simply the friendly name of the module used for display purposes
• Description
  A short description of the module
• Directory
  The directory (under /modules) where this module resides
• Version
  The currently installed version of this module
• State
• The current state of the module. Possible states include: Not installed, Inactive, Active, Files Missing, New version installed, and Invalid
• Actions
  The available actions will depend on the current state of the module. Typical actions include: Install, Activate, Deactivate, Remove module, Hooks, and Edit.
  

Regenerate List
If you upload a new module, you will need to regenerate the list from the file system by clicking on this link.

Settings
You can set the number of items (modules) shown per page and enable or disable legacy support. As you would imagine, it is best to not load legacy support unless you absolutely need to.

The Settings panel allows you to personalize your Zikula installation and change much of the functionality.

Owner Settings

• Owner Info
  Much of this information will be self-explanatory. If you choose to disable your site, please note that you will need to be logged in as an administrator to access it and/or re-enable it. Don't delete your cookies.
• Meta-Tag Settings
  In the Meta-keywords box you can enter keywords and phrases separated by a comma. By enabling Dynamic meta-keywords, Zikula will produce meta-keywords automatically from the current page.
• Start Page Settings
  In Zikula 1.0.0 there is a feature in the admin settings allowing you to select a specific page of content as your start/index page for the site. The one thing you have to keep in mind is the module must be API compliant, for example, sections is not an API compliant module, but HTMLpages is API compliant.
  note: The Sections module has been depreciated in favor of the API-compliant Pages Module.
  example url for the settings below:
  somesite.com/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=11
  • Start module
    The name of the module that will be used for your start page. This is a drop-down menu, so just choose the module you want from the list.
    In the above example url, this is "htmlpages".
  • Start function type
    admin or user should be filled in here, with user being the default value
    In the above example url, this is "user" (the default)
  • Start function
    This refers to the module function
    In the above example url, this is "display"
  • start function arguments
    The arguments for the start function
    In the above example url, this is "pid=11"
  • Site entry point
    index.php is the default and should not be changed unless you have a good reason
    In the above example url, this is "index.php"
• General Settings
• Activate Compression
  Activate compression: Activating compression enables GZIP compression within PHP, so pages are compressed on the server before being sent to the visitor's browser. This is most important with text-intensive sites and only works with browsers that support GZIP compression. (Older browsers that do not support the GZIP compression standard will display the content normally.)
• Use JS Quicktags buttons
  JS Quicktags adds a set of buttons for common HTML tags to enabled text areas. An 'enabled' text area will have a Quicktags template tag in the template. Disable this setting if you use a visual editor.
• Short URL Settings
• Enable or disable short URL's which are more friendly to people and search engine spiders.
  Please note that if you enable short URLs, you must copy the appropriate .htaccess file from the documentation folder to your site root.
• Back-End Settings
  Your back-end is the RSS feed for your site.

HTML Settings

• HTML Entities
  Translate Embedded HTML Characters into Real Characters. This option parses and converts standard foreign language characters from their "&#xxx" format to real characters, which can be important if your site uses a foreign language.
• HTML Tags
  To prevent either intentional or accidental damage to your site and how it is rendered by the visitor's browser, Zikula by default limits what HTML tags are allowed. This section contains a table that lets you modify the defaults. Unless you understand the implications and risks, you would be better off not changing these defaults.
  There are three options for each listed HTML tag.
• Not Allowed. If this tag is typed into a form or otherwise submitted, it will be visible but not parsed as HTML.
• Allowed. If the tag is used, it will be parsed as HTML, but no attributes will be parsed.
• Allowed with attributes. If the tag is used, both the HTML and the attributes will be parsed.

Localization Settings

• Language System
  Activate multilingual features for your site
• Browser
  Auto-detect language from browser settings
• Server
  Set the default language and time zones

Error Settings

Reporting level: Zikula can be configured to notify the Administrator (by e-mail) when a visitor attempts to navigate to a page that cannnot be found (an invalid URL).

• Show all notices, warnings and errors - only available on development systems
• Show real errors only
• Suppress all errors

Security Settings

• Host Settings
• Cookies Settings
• Session Settings
  There are three basic security-level setting options:
• High: users will have to log in every time they return to the site
• Medium: users will stay logged in for a set number of days, which you can configure. This is the default setting. Users are tracked by a sessionID? and (as long as they navigate with Zikula links and not their browser back button) will continue to be recognized by your Zikula site. You can set how long users remain logged in (in days). You can also set how long an idle user's session remains valid.
• Low: users will stay logged on indefinitely, unless they choose to log off.