All About Admins

PHP-Nuke contains a completely separate list for administrators. Anyone accessing your site's admin.php page is required to provide administrator credentials; the normal site user login won't work. However, you can set it up so that administrators who are also users of your site have the same username and password for both their user account and their admin account. I like the way the NSN Your Account tweak (YAT) implements this: A drop-down list allows you to "promote" a user to admin. Behind the scenes, YAT is just copying the user's username and password into the administrator list, creating a new admin with the same name and password as the user you "promoted."

Without YAT, however, you can still create admins. Just click on Edit Admins in the Administration menu and, as Figure 46.4 shows, simply type their name, nickname (which they'll use to log in), e-mail, and password. You check boxes to indicate which areas the new admin will have control over. These check boxes, then, allow you to delegate control over specific areas of your site to "helper administrators." Any admin who has the Super User check box selected will have full control over the site, so there's no need to check any additional check boxes for them.

Figure 46.4. Creating an admin.

You can also use the Edit Admins module to delete or edit existing adminsor, as PHP-Nuke sometimes calls them, authors.