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.