strict: a-z, A-Z, 0-9 only

medium: strict plus <>,.$%#@!'"

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Currently, no spaces are allowed in a user name

Hi,

I'm curious about the three levels of username strictness. I understand that "strick" is alpha-numeric only, but what additional characters are allowed with "medium" and "light"?

I'm finding that many new users seem to want to include spaces in their usernames and I'm wondering if there is any down side to allowing special characters.

TIA

As long as you are not altering the code other than adding in mods or sblocks available. There should be NO problem with someon charging for their time or consultation to create a custom XOOPS site.

That is my interpertation of the GPL.

However, the ORIGINAL copyright can not be changed and the links must remain. You would need to buy a license to remove or append it if it is offered.

I have spent literally months looking at different "CMS/Portal/Weblog/Document Mgmt" solutions for my company as well as for web sites of a number of clubs I belong to. I'd love to find a product that would do it all for me, but it seems like that is just not possible with any product out there (including commercial products).

I have installed and started using a bunch of different CMS's, and currently have pilot sites up using slashcode, squishdot, plone, xoops, phpslash, opencms and tiki. At work I have Oracle's commercial product 9iAS as a pilot site. I've tried and discarded a lot of others as well.

I wish there were an un-biased review of the various products and some kind of feature matrix to aid in decision making. I've found some of these, but they are clearly "marketing material", and very biased to a certain product. There are probably white papers available from consultants, but even these are biased in favor of the products they like to install and support.

Each product has a definate "Focus" in it's features, and they support some usages much better than others. For example, XOOPS is a dream to install and admin (nice work guys and gals), but has nothing even approaching the document managment features of Oracle's Application Server or Zope/Plone. For my "club" sites that I run at home, that's a non-issue, so I like XOOPS very much (I like TikiWiki also and am having trouble choosing). However, at work, the lack of good versioning/auditing/rendering makes XOOPS a non-starter for Document Management. It's a shame too, do you know how much we are going to spend for Oracle and Documentum licenses and consultants fees ? Lets' just say it would support the entire XOOPS team in a rather lavish lifestyle for a long time (think "winning the lottery"). We spent about $35k for 2 consultants to have a bunch of meetings and write up a paper telling us the obvious ("You need a Document Management System, yesterday !!").

Anyway, your question about business use is quite hard to answer simply. Fortunately for you, this is a very promising area for consultants, and the more you know about the available solutions, the better you'll be able to serve your clients.

Dennis

The CVS is back up and I'm currently looking into the 'disable HTML' bug

Herko

There are tons of little secrets that one learns along the line when using CSS and XSLT for cross browser support. Of course, the first of these little lessons is NOT to attempt to support too many browsers (or versions of browsers). Current site statistics (random sampling of .com, .net, and .edu) show that the vast majority of folks on the web now use M$ Internet Explorer (IE) 5.5 or newer (over 90%).

In regards to points verses pixels, my suggestion is to always use points. This accomplishes a few things, including putting Netscape users in a very close appearance to the IE users since Netscape has chosen another display method. Furthermore, the point sizes are a closer relative to the print versions and tend to present a better-printed version.

Oh, and many times, the CSS validators out there go too far back in their versioning schema, thus producing errors that are probably not valid with the current browsers. Just a suggestion, but you might want to take a good look at TopStyle Pro for your CSS management and cleanup.

I have a very similar problem. When I or anyone else is logged in, when clicking on a member name or try to retrive a new message it just displays a blank center page. The strange thing is if I logout and click on a member name, it then displays the profile page. I haven't move directories or anything like that so I have no idea why this is happening.

Any help would be great.

The session timeout setting doesn't seem to work...as I said before, I set it to 2 weeks, yet, even with the browser left open, I get logged out in an hour or so, unless I keep working with the window.

If the user wants less database access, couldn't that be controlled from the cache system used in xoops2? That's the reason for having the cache system implemented, and from what I've seen of it, it works good. Right now I'm trying to figure out the best way to implement it to reduce server load and load time the most for my site.

I haven't tried downloading cvs since it was down, so I don't know if any of these issues are resolved yet...or if it's even back up yet.

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You are funny Sergio. I just hope no one ask to have their butt wiped for them.

the who is online take time for upgrade the info, think that can't upgrade all time because this generate more database access.
But the who is online need more testings.