From time to time, especially when I logout, I get a blank page, except for a drop-down list with nothing in it.

I'm using XOOPS 2.0.5 and wf-sections 1.0.1

When I look at the source of the blank page (with debug switched on) I find this:

<select name='id' onchange="location.href='http://127.0.0.1/xoops/html/modules/wfsection/index.php?category='+this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">
<option value='0'>-----------</option>
<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>: Undefined class name 'xoopsmodule' in <b>d:\apache\apache\htdocs\xoops\html\modules\wfsection\class\wfstree.php</b> on line <b>199</b><br />
Notice [PHP]: Undefined index: lang_rememberme in file d:\apache\apache\htdocs\xoops\html\templates_c\db%3Asystem_block_login.html line 7<br>
Notice [PHP]: Undefined index: sslloginlink in file d:\apache\apache\htdocs\xoops\html\templates_c\db%3Asystem_block_login.html line 10<br>
Notice [PHP]: Undefined index: xoops_lblocks in file d:\apache\apache\htdocs\xoops\html\class\smarty\Smarty.class.php line 626<br>
Notice [PHP]: Undefined index: xoops_rblocks in file d:\apache\apache\htdocs\xoops\html\class\smarty\Smarty.class.php line 626<br>


Any bright ideas? Am I doing something wrong?

I don't think so because this happened including for anonymous users - plus all the modules showed up twice on the "add new group" part of the groups page.

Ho-hum

I'm installing XOOPS for the first time and mucking about to see how it works. Generally very favorable opinion despite the odd frustration. However, I have some questions (please answer bearing in mind I am a user, technically more or less literate, but not knowing PHP). So here goes:

1) Is there any user documentation (ie how to do things, not how to program or use XOOPS APIs). I can't find any on the site, other than the Wiki. Perhaps this is it?

2) Languages: is it possible to have multiple languages on the same site and flip between them? Either for admin access, or for viewing content, or for both? Or if I install one language, will it wipe out the previous one?

3) Languages: When I enter Russian script in the XOOPS editor, it gets converted to HTML special characters like "&1122" etc. I fear this will not show up properly in search engines. Is there a setting I can use to prevent this (eg like setting MySQL to work with Unicode?)?

4) Is it possible to remove the "Login" box from the top page, and put it on another page with a different URL (eg $xoops_url/adminlogin.php) so that anonymous users don't see that there is the possibility to login?

5) Is there a list somewhere of all the XOOPS variables and "commands" that I could use in custom blocks and templates?

I'm sure there's more - but that's all for now folks! And thanx again for your help.

I am just getting up and running on Xoops, so I have spent a lot of time installing things, uninstalling them, testing, bashing around, looking for other modules, etc. In other words its a bit chaotic.

I finally came to the conclusion that wf-sections was what I wanted and I installed that.

Everything seems pretty much fine except that sometimes when I change something in the permissions area, I either get the same menu twice on the page (eg the left area has user menu, followed by main menu, followed by user menu again), or else I get nothing at all except the wf-sections Index drop-down list (but with nothing in it - maybe because I haven't entered any articles).

Now I've uninstalled all the modules except system, and when I go into the "groups" admin page I can see, strangely, that all the system blocks appear twice in "block access rights" on the left hand side. This doesn't seem normal - I'm sure I must have messed something up unless it is a bug installing wf-sections 1.0.1 (which seemed to go in fine by the way)

I'd appreciate it if anyone could tell me how to solve this short of wiping every thing out and starting again. Is it a known problem with wf-sections for example?

Well.... he said, some time later I seem to have sorted this out by using PHPAdmin on xoops_newblocks, where I did indeed find that all my blocks existed twice, and that I could wipe out the duplicates by hand. It now seems to work... Bizarre, wonder how that happened??

Thanx, Joel

Thanks for the help - actually somebody had aleady pointed me at this point, that XOOPS is very much a matter of installing modules, an idea that I wasn't used to but which works very well.

Now that that is sorted out, I think that wfsection is the business for what I want to do.

But there is a point to make: I'm not a techie, so I'm starting with my requirements, and one of my key requirements is to be able to enter Russian - if XOOPS couldn't handle that then there wasn't any point going any further... I'll probably be more back later with more questions about wfsection

I would like to add my voice to those asking for a "true" multilanguage system. I am working on a site where:
1) There are up to 10 languages at the moment, and counting.
2) The people who update the site are distributed around the world. They can all use an English management interface, but the content must be in all these languages (including Cyrillic and double-byte languages)
3) The authors and editors have zero technical skills - I really don't want to have them put in HTML tags or square-bracket commands.
4) I want to separate the site areas by language, with a drop-down list to choose the language.

It seems to me that the only way to do this is to make it possible to have ALL content (including blocks etc) include a "language" parameter, so that the block is only displayed if the user has chosen the relevant language (should work also for anonymous users). As far as I can understand Xoops, it would also mean detaching blocks from modules: you should be able to include the same module multiple times, but with different titles (languages) etc. In other words, truly separate the different languages. Any thoughts, is this possible?

Cheers, Joel G

Thankyou, it is very helpful. I much appreciate having a helping hand to show me around getting started with Xoops.

The reason I find XOOPS very attractive is the powerful user management. This is critical for my site and nobody else in this PHP/MySQL Open Source world seems to do it. In fact when I look at other forums discussions about this they all seem to say "we should do it like Xoops".

So this is what I'm looking for in terms of my requirements:
1) Be able to set up categories of articles
2) Attach a group to each category so that only members of the appropriate group can create/edit/etc articles in that category.
3) Have anonymous users able to see the articles

Then I have requirements in terms of inputting content:
1) Articles unrestricted in length
2) With page breaks
3) Print and e-mail buttons provided automatically
4) Input in English, German, or Russian (critical)
5) oh yes - and be able to display PDF files in-page

Then for reading content, I'ld like either to be able to mix languages on the page, or else to be able to separate everything by language.

If tom - or anybody else - has an opinion on the best option for doing all this, then I would be very grateful.

Thanx to all, Joel

I seem to have found WF-Sections, but there are two versions and advice not to use the latest (v1.0.1). Does v0.9.3 work on XOOPS v2?

Thanx a lot, Joel

Download doesn't work (non-existant page)

I'm inputting just a straightforward text block in Russian (using cut and paste). The Russian text looks ok in the browser; however, when you look at the source (in the HTML editor for example), it has all been converted out of cyrillic into HTML character codes.

As far as I can see this has two disadvantages: firstly you can't edit it because it's impossible to understand what the actual text is, and secondly I very much doubt whether Russian search engines will cope with this.

Is there some setting to input so that the text is in UTF-8 for example?

Thanx, Joel