Foreword;Preface; Audience; What's Inside; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Slash: An Overview; 1.1 The Slashdot Story; 1.2 Becoming a Slash Guru: A Roadmap; 1.3 The Slash User Interface; 1.4 The Slash Author Interface; 1.5 The Slash Publishing Cycle; 1.6 The Slash Architecture;Chapter 2: Installing Slash; 2.1 Before You Begin; 2.

2 Getting the Software; 2.3 The Short Version; 2.4 The Details; 2.5 Advanced Installations;Chapter 3: Basic Administration; 3.1 The Admin Menu; 3.2 Editing Authors; 3.3 Modifying Configuration Variables;Chapter 4: Editing and Updating Stories; 4.1 The Stories List; 4.

2 The Edit Story Form; 4.3 Gotchas;Chapter 5: Reviewing and Approving Submissions; 5.1 The Submit Story Page; 5.2 The Submissions List; 5.3 The Review Submission Page; 5.4 Editing User Submissions;Chapter 6: Comments, Filters, and Content Moderation; 6.1 Viewing Comments; 6.2 Posting Comments; 6.

3 Comment Filters; 6.4 Comment Moderation; 6.5 Moderation Configuration Variables;Chapter 7: Managing Topics and Sections; 7.1 Managing Topics; 7.2 Choosing Topics and Icons; 7.3 Managing Sections; 7.4 Choosing Sections;Chapter 8: Managing a Slash Community; 8.1 How to Stifle a Community; 8.

2 Setting the Tone; 8.3 Finding and Generating Content; 8.4 Promoting the Site; 8.5 Managing Authors; 8.6 Managing Users;Chapter 9: Basic Site Customization; 9.1 Blocks and Slashboxes; 9.2 Managing User Polls;Chapter 10: Advanced Customization; 10.1 Changing the Look; 10.

2 Customizing Template Behavior; 10.3 Themes and Plugins; 10.4 Modifying the Code Itself; 10.5 Internationalization;Chapter 11: Advanced Administration; 11.1 Tasks; 11.2 The Slash Daemon and Tasks; 11.3 Slash Utilities;Slash Architecture; The Apache Request Cycle; How Information Is Stored; How Information Is Displayed; Slash Directory Structures; Slash Libraries;Common Slash Database Tables; Foreign Keys; Common Table Schemas;The Slash Template Language; Template Basics; Advanced Templates for Slash; Miscellaneous Arcana;The Slash API; Browsing the Slash Documentation; Initialization Functions; Database Functions; Display Functions;Slash Configuration Variables; Variable Tables;Colophon;.