While we're on the subject, the same functionality in the Forum section would be very desirable as well.

For example, the title bar I currently see,

XOOPS Official Site - Forum

should read

XOOPS Official Site - Forum - Item-Specific Page Titles in News, wfsection

This would be useful both from a navigation point of view and for search engine spiders.

Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone would care to provide.

Bela

Weird

I didn't change anything. I can't log in under my admin name either... how could i fix this in the SQL?

I had the same problem awhile back it sounds like its the database or something in your XOOPS control panel.

Kindest Regards
Nathan

But the weird thing is the *everyone* could log in one minute, and then all of a sudden *nobody* could! It really doesn't seem like it could be a virus software problem =/

Try logging in with your virus software off! virus software can interfier with your database.. even when i post messages here at xoops.org i have to have my virus systems off for it wont let the XOOPS database load !

Try that

Kindest Regards
Nathan

I say don't mess with a good thing!

Xoops Newb forum is good enough .. i certaintly wont be changing to some other half cocked module! im sticking with the one i have.. some people this is where they go wrong fiddling with a good thing UHUHUH

Kindest Regards
Nathan

That's the message everyone gets when they try to log into my site (http://www.mofogamers.com)...

Is anyone else having this problem??? It was working fine... nobody changed anything! Then all of a sudden the login went screwy... help!

I've used the hack from Jan's site, and it worked without a problem using XOOPS 2.02, W2K Server and IIS.

My only reservation with using such a hack (which has already been brought up I think) is that to my understanding the way it works is by leaving sessions open for extended periods of time. My problems with this method are;

1. on a site with a lot of traffic, there would be a significant performnace hit on your server.

2. Using this method is not suitable to have true "never log off" option.

3. Using this method the "Who's Online" block will always be inaccurate as it'll be populated by not only active sessions, but sessions that may have been inactive for several days depending on what you have set your session timeout to be.

This all said I think it's a very welcome hack, and given the option of having it, or not having it I most certainly am on the side of it being there. Better to have some form of auto login than none at all.

I've been an end user of CMS modules for far longer than I've been running them on my website (and thus have zero programming knowledge, so forgive me if I'm being simplistic), and I've always found it extremely frustrating not being able to set the option to login automatically to a site, especially when signing up to dozens of sites with lots having different username and password length and makup requirements making it difficult to have a generic username and password to use on all sites.

The lack of a auto login feature is one of three problems I've come across with XOOPS which if I hadn't been able to find some workaround for would've forced me to look at another CMS as my solution. Other than that, XOOPS is a top CMS and is well ahead on the easy of use and managebility side of things.

like most people aware of the lack of a true auto login feature, I encourage the XOOPS devs to keep up the great work, but please look into implementing a configuratble true auto-login feature into the core for a future release. Perhaps even in it's own module?

Thanks a million! Just what I needed.

Bela
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True to a degree, but a lot of users also get tied up and enjoy having access to forum usage statistics data, and for the web site owner I see this as being quite important for aiding in tracking site usage. I've really only looked at phpbb and newbb, and phpbb seems to accomodate a lot more statistical data than newbb. If newbb where to incorporate some of these features I'd have no desire to look elsewhere. As is, I think newbb is a perfectly functional forum, if only a slightly vanilla flavoured one.

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Thanks for that Tom, I plan at this stage on using the phpbb module unless I find any great reason not to. I only plan on upgrading XOOPS on major change releases, or on releases that directly address problems I have. As a work around to upgrading the non XOOPS supported modules such as these forums you suggested, couldn't you use one of the current migration tools for phpbb or IBF to convert to an older XOOPS version, then upgrade that via standard XOOPS upgrade path instead of migrating directly to the new XOOPS version? I'm sure there would have to be a catch with this idea ? But I'm not that smart .

Thanks for the theme suggestion too, I actually found a pretty nice XP theme on this very site .

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Thanks thepod, I actually ended up downloading the hack from http://www.jan304.org which is working a treat on 2.02 atm.