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IN THIS CHAPTER
PostNuke is an application designed to make complex website development as simple as using a form. It's coded in the PHP scripting language (www.php.net) with content stored in database tables, but by design it removes the real coding for you so that even when developing themes and templates, you need only know Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML; www.xhtml.org). But while that makes dynamic website development easier, and certainly accessible to more users, there are great benefits to taking back control of the coding. The scripts and applications that make PostNuke work are designed for general use. Your website needs might not be average or normal. With PHP, you can alter any PostNuke code to make it do what you want, and even write entirely new scripts to add additional features. PostNuke themes are laid out in modular XHTML files, but you can also use PHP to dynamically generate more components or to automate even the XHTML. In the upcoming sections, you explore the following topics:
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