I don't know if this would appeal to anyone, but I wanted to over use the "news by this author" links, and I didn't like the format of the "Posted by" links on the news module, if you change line 504 in /modules/news/class/class.newsstory.php to


Everywhere you used to have a link that would send your visitors to the authors user info, now sends them to the "News by this author" link. - again, it was handy for me, might not be for you.

This works well for me on 1.3, I don't see why it wouldn't work on all, the line number just might be off though, on different versions.

My example, and shameless plug, would behttp://www.knewstalk.com where I wanted the authors names to be links to the news by this author page.

nevermind I fixed it - flushed my templates_c folder, then upped it to news version 1.3.1.


but definately a word to the wise - the submit.php file is a lot different from news 1.3x to the XOOPS 2.0.93-2.0.10 patch files.

I have a weird one for you:

I was running XOOPS version 2.0.93, *I then upgraded to 2.0.10 - finally, I upgraded the news module - to 1.3.

that went fine for a while, until I applied the autologin hack.

So I though I was having version issues, look in my admin control panel and saw that it was still registering as version 2.0.93. I removed the autologin hack, and went back and re-did the upgrade to 2.0.1 - I had done all the procedures correct the first time, I just must not have noticed the old version in the control panel.

When I did this I noticed that the submit.php file is 3 times smaller than the news 1.3 version. - a big question mark there?

I applied the autologin hack again, and all was well. Until I tried to edit a News story from the front-page; the submit.php?op=edit&storyid=xxx link takes me to what looks more like a submit new page. The forms are all empty, even though the link says I'm editing that story number.

Everything else works fine, and if I edit the story in the admin control panel it works fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I really think it has something to do with that upgrade 2.0.93-to-2.0.1 "submit.php" file being so much smaller than your news 1.3 version, but I haven't yet compared the two.
I did try to put your submit.php version back in the /modules/news/ directory, but the php dies at "Edit News Story" or something.

Using the Smarty variables and if/else statements, you can edit your news_item.html file (in Templates Menu) to exclude elements, or completely change the look of the news item based on who posted the story.

for my K-News Station site, I created a user named KNEWS, and if I post the story as that user (or, I just change it in 1.3) the entire "Posted By" line gets dropped. - here is the only thing I changed - other than creating the user:





adding the:

statement made that entire loop disappear when the user who posted the story was "KNEWS"

- I don't know template editing very well, so it looks a little weird without it completely, but you can see how only things posted by "KNEWS" will have that element dropped.

So imagine using two or three different users setup, with a different presentation for each one.

edit: I then used the /if loop to tie in a second itemHead (itemHead2) to the css, then added that statement to the css, - to add the buffer I wanted.

ehh, you know in review - this really isn't a solution, as it can add the margin= value to every img tag in the html, so you can get inconsistent layouts with my fix.

If your theme doesn't use images to border, or for the design; this may work ok for you though. just keep in mind that it adds the margin tag to every img on the page. - or I'm doing it wrong.

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they are very phone-friendly as well, this was a big thing with me, my last host was completely unavailable when I needed that fast-phone-service.

ixwebhosting is a great site for xoopsers.

They also offer a lot of different level plans, I'm running two "gold plans" right now to host 12 XOOPS sites. they offer 6 domains, 3 free dns registers, SSL, (*free) SSL, unlimited storage, 30GB per month, unlimited emails, auto responders, full SQL support: (ok here's a copy/paste of their plan from their site)

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You know, I didn't even think about what jdseymour was saying, I guess I don't go to the base news module from my top page-new module, I only use the "read more" links, and the topics navigation can be included in news 1.3.

sorry if I only frustrated.

If you look at the install of news 1.3, you will see that you just need to add the mime time for .swf, I had to do this in order to upload mp3 files.

do a XOOPS search for "news 1.3" and "mime"

doh, I couldn't find it that way either, ok edit:

read the class.mimetype.php file in ../news/class

my understanding would be that if you set the News module as your home page, then in the blocks you only want to display on the home page; select "top page" as the "display in" section. You should then only see them on the home page, not the module. - works 4 me.

Thanks so much for your attention guys, I have a lot of ideas for xoops, and I hope to be able to contribute in any way that I can.