I'm just getting used to this caching system. HERE'S the DEAL!

I went to html/modules/polls/cache and found an unupdated pollsblock.inc.php! So I simply changed that file to chmod 666!

Then I went to edit the poll and changed some wording and hit UPDATE! The cache file changed and lo and behold.. the POLL BLOCK APPEARED!

(Note: Going to Admin Menu and updating the Polls MODULE did nothing. But editing the BLOCK updated the cache.)

CASE CLOSED!

I've done this twice on two sites now, you'd think I'd learn. I take the standard install, add in a NEW POLL, then delete the original poll. I should have simply updated the existing poll but nooooo. So then all I get on the home page is the title of the poll block.

I've tried to go into modules and hit UPDATE on the Poll module, and double checked the BLOCKS to be sure it's set to Visible To ALL.

I've tried moving it from side to side (ok this was a long shot but HEY!) and it just doesn't show the content.

So then I tried deleting the poll to where there are NONE and readding it. (It added it as pollid=3.) It's still a no-show as a block. If I click on POLLS in the main menu (go to it directly as a module,) it's there!

Seems to me that the Poll BLOCK expects pollid=1 or it takes its ball and goes home. Problem is, I deleted pollid=1 and now I'm hosed!

Thanks for the response, but being new to PHP, that doesn't really tell me anything.

My PHP info shows --without-gd on the most recent compile. Are you talking about some sort of stand alone library that I can enable through an httpd.conf flag?

Thanks,

The graphics in stats are generated by gd lib +1.8 ideal gd lib +2.0 !!

My site is on L.A.M.P. (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) and I am experiencing the problem as well. No visitors are being reported, and no bar graphs are showing up on the stats screens.

I do NOT have GD support enabled in PHP, and I cannot recompile PHP on my machine to enable it. Are there any other options available for getting this to work?

Cool!!! You guys rock!!!

Yes, all the features you listed are to be included in the new sections module.

w4z suggested in this post:

http://xoops.sourceforge.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22&forum=3

that I post this here.

You guys have done a great job here on Xoops. Somebody finally has a decent implementation of a module infrastructure. I have looked at the code and I can see that it is going to be easily modifiable, and easy to find where in the code you need to modify to achieve your desired customization.

This was mentioned a bit in the post linked to above, but the biggest thing I see missing from XOOPS (and all Nuke variants as well), is a robust implementation of managing articles. Articles are different from news. The XOOPS implementation of news is great, because news comes and goes and it dies after awhile.

Articles on the other hand stay around and users on your site may refer to them over and over again. For this reason, the implementation of articles needs to be different than news.

I believe this is why the sections module was created, to serve as a repository for articles. The current sections implementation is bare bones, and is a good starting point, but there is quite a bit of functionality still missing to make it a good article manager (helping move the XOOPS system more into the CMS world as well as the Portal world).

Therefore, I'm hoping the XOOPS team will consider updating the Sections module with additional functionality such as the following:

1) Categories under Sections with navigation.
2.) Additional data on articles, including intro text, body text, author (user), related links.
3.) Ability to comment on articles using current comment functionality.
4.) Ability for users to suggest / submit articles for sections.
5.) An associated side block for most recent articles.
6.) Implement related article functionality so articles can be linked, or else the ability to write multi-page articles.

There are probably going to be some people out there that say "why not just use the news module for articles"? That is a legitimate question, but I reiterate that the nature of news and articles are different for the reasons I mentioned above and thus require a different means of navigating through them.

If these six items could be implemented in Sections, I think the community would greatly benefit and expand.

There apparently appears to be a large interest by the community at large for an eGallery. That's cool, but I think this needs to be right up there as well.

Thanks for reading this long post, and thanks to the team for a great new product...

Yeap! you gd_lib is 1.8 or before

the correct version i the 2.0

execute the phpinfo.php and search for :

gd
GD Support enabled
GD Version 2.0 or higher
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
JPG Support enabled
PNG Support enabled
WBMP Support enabled

you solve the stats but you have problems in future!!! not all modules set gif/png/jpg

revise your php.ini!!

Fixed it - Changed $lvc_images_format to "gif"