OK I since haven't had any response to this thread so I was forced to revert back to my old version 2.0.13 and my client is moaning at me about it all week.

Please isn't there anyone out there who can help me find a way to allow name spaces in my user and display names for this latest XOOPs 2.2.3?

I really really need to have this option in order to upgrade.

Thanks again,
Z

Whew!!! I was so glad to find this today!

Thanks a bunch and please pass along some extra thanks to the "someone" who told you this very useful piece of code.

Seasons greetings to all the luverly XOOPs peeps!!!

I have a terrible problem since I upgraded my XOOPs site yesterday to the XOOPS 2.2.3 Final....

ALL of the user names in my existing site database have spaces in the name (we register people by their real names, eg: Jack Frost) and I tried to edit a few of the user profiles and got error messages about not allowing a space in the name.

I cannot understand why this would have changed with such an upgrade, when my previous XOOPs version was fine about allowing a space in the names. Neither can I see any options in the new system control panel to allow this and I have my "level of strictness for username filtering" set to Light.

The only information I could find about spaces in usernames was the hack mentioned on this page here:

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=19297&forum=14&post_id=82466#forumpost82466

...but I am reluctant to try this since it is an old post about an older XOOPS version.

I have to get my website back online by tomorrow so it is urgent I find a solution to this problem or I will have to revert back to my previous XOOPs version, as I am unwilling to manually go through every member account and edit their profiles to add an underscore where the space is.

Is there anybody who can help please?

Thanks for reading.

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Ooooh lah lah! This is just the trick. Those Wolf Clan boys have some very nice tools... alas, if only I could speak more French than "ooh lah lah" and read their website better

Thanks muchly for the recommendation WarDick. I had to install a module specially for the current homepage I am using and this myHome looks like it will be able to free that up so I can devote to that another purpose on my site.

Absolutely spiffing!

Cheers
Z

PS: g'luck for your finals J. The internet stole my life and college stole my internet life.... Can't wait to steal it back after finals are over hehehe

Wow, thanks for the speedy reply James (BTW I loooove your avatar!!!! Hope you don't mind that I thieved it to use for my own avatar on another forum I visit LOL )

OK, I am not quite sure I understand your advice here J.

I am familiar with being able to hide items in the blocks menu and set in the user groups who can see them using those access permissions (we have four tiers of membership where some can see all 13 module/blocks, others only 11 of them and guests only can see 5, as a teaser to join up).

My understanding was that I have to set a "global" home page in the main site preferences and that if I do not allow all users to have visibility to that page/module then they will be left with a blank page when they visit the home page and I cannot have guests seeing a blank page.

I was kinda hoping that I could reconfigure what happens when a user is "redirected" after login. Is that possible? Maybe instead of being redirected back to the home page, I can have them redirected instead to wordpress index page, which means I could leave the existing homepage "as is".

It's not so much a case of "what's visible" as it is "where they are directed" after they have performed a particular action (in this case, a successful login).

Yikes, I hope that made more sense this time?

Cheers m'dears,
Z

PS: I will consider again the upgrade, but it will have to wait till Xmas break as I am crazy busy with college finals right now. I customised the snot out of many of the system modules when I built this thing and I'd be gutted if an upgrade should break any of my tweaks. Promise I will investigate further tho

Hiya peeps,

I am being driven insane by one of my site moderators who is constantly reporting to me that users are showing as being logged in when there is no sign of them having being logged in for days (or weeks) in the members search module (using last-logged-in search criteria).

He has been phoning me to report that some (random) member have been logged in for 1, 2 or 3 days, and yet I will go visit the website myself and they will not be showing as logged in for me. Also checked with a few members who were reported as "being logged in" and they claimed they hadn't attempted to visit the site at those times when they were showing as online.

I've been twiddling about for several months now looking for a common denominator in all this - considering issues such as site caching, local browser caching, members not remembering to log out, stale site cookies etc etc etc but can't for the life of me find any regular pattern of who and when it happens.

I did manage to reproduce the anomoly once on my my locally mirrored copy of the website after clearing my local browser cache/cookies, but still no clues there either.

So are there some other factors I should be investigating here? Or is it possible there is a bug in the module?

I'm using the default "whos online" on XOOPS 2.0.10.

Any feedback gratefully accepted.

Cheers
Z

PS: I should also mention that I was using this hack by Mithrandir here (with the extra lines of code which excludes site admin from being restricted by the hack) but I tried restoring the original code for a few weeks to see if it fixed that problem and there was no difference, so I added Mith's hack back into the checklogin.php again.

Hi again,

Not sure if that topic title made sense, but I have been recieving compaints from members on my site who have filled out form fields (when writing private messages for example) and been redirected to an error message because they omitted to fill out one of the fields correctly.

When they use their back button to "return to the previous page" to correct the error/omission then all the information that they previously entered has been wiped clean from the fields and they not only have to re-enter the missing field but also everything else that they just typed (a major pain up the whatsit if they just typed a very lengthy private message and lost all the text).

Is there anything I can change/hack/edit/config anywhere in the main site settings or module settings which will stop the form fields from being erased when use the browser "back" button?

Or any other suggested solutions to this annoyance?

Thanks muchly for your input peeps.

Z

Greetings fellow XOOPS users,

Is it all possible to have a different home/start page for non-logged in guests and logged-in members?

I have been asked to set the wordpress module as the home page of one of my XOOPS sites, but the problem with that is that it contains sensitive material which they do not want to have visible to non-members (the blog module is only visible to logged-in paid members).

If it would be possible, I should like to have the public home page a blurb about the the organisation and then when paid members log into the private area of the site their page refreshes and they are now automatically viewing the blog.

Is there any kind of standard or hacked feature which would enable me to implement this please?

Thanks a bunch for reading in.

Z

PS: We are still using XOOPS 2.0.10 and have no intention to upgrade in the near future unless absolutely necessary.

Absolutely BRILLIANT!!!

Thanks Mithrandir and martyras, this is exactly what I was looking for for my site.

Woohoooo, I found the solution here with HUGE thanks to patchwork....

https://xoops.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=279&com_id=14460&com_rootid=14460&com_mode=thread&#comment14460

What an exciting thing to see my very first XOOPS site online at last. Wow and I cannot believe have fast it runs onsite... just as fast as it does on my local test server. I hope my client loves this as much as I do

Cheers peeps and glad others found this thread useful too

:) :) :)