I know i sound like a broken record, so i apologize with all the "well in PN" statements. I have just used PN for 4 years now, so its more comparison.

1) Can I do different templates for different modules? This would be the template that wraps around the module. I understand templating modules themselves as thats a completely seperate issue.

2) Can blocks be assigned to a template using smarty? Without using smarty can they be assigned to a particular module?

3) Can I assigned a template to a particular block?

4) Can I set permissions using smarty within the template?


Ive gotten pretty good with Xanthia for Postnuke and am hoping to be able to have close to the same amount of control of my layout with xoops. So far that i have seen with the themes available for xoops, they are all rather simple. Of course im going to make my own theme. But i need to find one that i can "hack" to see what all can be done.

Thanks,
MACscr

looks like its apache:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /xoops/modules/system/admin.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.peoriascene.com Port 80

Odd, when trying to access groups i get this error.

You don't have permission to access /xoops/modules/system/admin.php on this server.

I have reuploaded the groups.php file a couple times and also checked the perms, but they seem fine. Havent seen something in forums really about this problem, except that someones hosts security module was causing a problem. Sounds like bad coding to me.

Is there any more info on this problem? Im having the same problem and the idea of changing a server config because of bad coding is not a good idea IMHO.

How about the fact that no one else can make apple hardware? Think of all companies that make chipsets and cpu's for IMB compatible pc's. Not possible for MACs, so they rule the price of its technology.

You got to understand that MS also has a majority of the security problems out there because it is the majority, so of course hackers, etc, make their code for it. I have noticed that the more popular Firefox has gotten, the more popups im getting with it. People find the loopholes with any program and they exploit it. Also, Firefox has had 3 updates already this year. An update is also a patch. I love Firefox and i use it 99% of the time. But there is no reason to diss MS over it. I actually own a Linux based firm and by no means am I a hater of Bill Gates and his work.

Thanks for the tips. I really appreciate it. Now if i could only get the groups module to work, getting a 404 for some reason. I will try reuploading the module and searching the forums. Does XOOPS not have permissioning like PN? I didnt see it in the default install. Ive gotten pretty dang good with them with PN, so i love to use them whenever possible now. Especially in templates. Sry for the questions without doing more research first though. I usually dont do that.

Thanks for your help.

No one has any tips?

I would love to see the email account created automatically at site signup. Any chance with this?

Well, Im not completely new to it. But I havent looked into XOOPS since probably 2002. Im a long time user of PN. Been with them since early 2001. Developed many sites, couple modules, and many themes for pn. Today I stumbled upon XOOPS again when I was searching for a good yellow pages type script for a city portal site im going to be working on. Found xdirectory and that it only worked with xoops. So i figured that I could be lazy and use fantastico to install Xoops, then install the xdirectory module to see what it could do.

Its only been about an hour that i have been messing with Xoops, but i am extremely impressed how far it has come and all the amazing modules for it.

Im a pretty experienced Xanthia theme developer, so we will see how it goes with XOOPS and how much actual control I have over the display of the site content. Looks promising so far. My personal opinion is that if it looks like a CMS made site after the site is made, its no good.

Since im new to xoops, i was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for modules, etc, for the city portal im going to be working on. Here is a brief summery of what im trying to do with it:

"Provide a web site for reviews of local bars, clubs, restaurants, hotels, concerts, and community events."

Editors will write reviews on, for example, a local bar. Will include pictures of the bar, some staff, link to menu, weeks specials, and monthly calendar of events. Editor will also give the establishment a rating. I want users to be able to comment on the article, and also give their own ratings. Maybe link to establishments web site if it exists. If it was a review of a band or something, im going to want to include maybe a mp3 to a song of theirs. Hopefully be able to stream it someway.

1) I havent played enough with xdirectory to see if its going to work for me, but it seems awfully powerful. I love the fact that it works with a mapping site. Not really related, but im going to see if i can develope a module that will work with local.google.com to provide a module that will display local searches for whatever, maybe pizza joints. Then displays the map. Anyway, just like local.google.com, but will be specific to just our city.

2) Im also going to need a good calendar module. I probably would be using PostCalendar if i was using pn. Im going to want to be able to have categories for things such as sports. But then, i woudl want a sub category for a specific team. That way you can see whats going on that month as far s sports, but also maybe check out a teams schedule for the week, month, year, etc. Do you have a recommendation that you think might fit my needs?

3) Movie Showtimes module? I had developed one in the past that pulled content from movies.yahoo.com for a pn site. Does anything like this exist for xoops?

4) Need a good stats module for tracking page views and user activity.

5) Shopping cart module. Maybe even a cafepress like one.

6) Match Maker type module. Not sure if im going to do it, but might be useful. PN had one called friendfinder or something like that.

Looks like you have a great module repository that im going to have to dig into and do some research. Just figured you long time users could give me some tips, just like i could do for pn.

Thanks for your great work and i cant wait to dive into it.

-MACscr

P.S. Does XOOPS do "shorturls", etc for SEO?