Application

Application

Application to Xoops Engine is the same as module to Xoops 2 series. We may divide a large website into several applications, each being developed and maintained separately. The Xoops Engine provides some commonly used features, such as user management.

What applications can do

Everything you need. A application can do everything the other PHP program do, from a personal blog to a commerce website.

Where are these applications

All the applications are put in the directory /XoopsEngine/usr/apps. In a fresh Xoops Engine, you may see serval built-in applications there such as user, system, etc. The developers around world contributed abundant applications (It will take some time to upgrade modules of Xoops 2 series to applications of Xoops Engine), you can download your favorite applications and put them into /XoopsEngine/usr/apps. In the backend interface, you can see all the applications avaliable to be installed.

How to create a application

The details of development of application is in the chapters Application Development.