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Letting a user edit their account details in Xaraya

March 14th, 2006

Once someone has registered on your nice new web site, it would be useful if they could then edit and change their own account details. Well, of course, they can if they can find the link to their account. There should really be a link on the menu underneath the Logout link, which can, like the Logout link, be set via the admin menu. Here I’ll describe how to add that link to the menu.

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Starting off with Xaraya

February 18th, 2006

Xaraya is a Content Management System (CMS) that is available under the GPL, written in PHP, with a MySQL database at the backend.
I’ve just setup a Xaraya system for the ACCU, an association of programmers, and here I’ll provide some notes on what to watch out for and maybe some ideas for getting started.

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