I am currently using CBB 3.08. I love the module, and I've seen a previous request on here (can't find it though) asking for designer help on the forthcoming version 4 of CBB. Like others, I've visited many XOOPS sites and have noticed some very good template themes out there for CBB.

Is there a repository (much like the Themes Library here) where we can browse various template themes for CBB 3.0x? I would love to give this forum module a quick makeover (can't ever seem to find the time to just do it myself). I'd like to see page elements re-organized and various visual elements improved upon (I *have* downloaded the newBB GDK, but haven't had the time yet to fool around with it).

So what you all say, would you like to see some people post their various CBB themes and templates up to Xoops.org for sharing?

I'm still having this problem. :(

Recently, I reorganized my forum. I moved some around, changed some permission settings -- stuff like that. Then, of course, the same person immediately popped back up and mentioned that they had lost their notifications again.

So then she set them back up again. Everything is fine. So I upgraded XOOPS from 2.0.13.2 to 2.0.16 and applied a new theme. So what happens the next day? You guessed it, the global notification for new posts to the entire forum went missing for her.

My next bet is to upgrade the cbb forum to the latest version in some vain attempt that this issue has been addressed.

Does anyone out there know anything about this? Is this one of those things that may be a bug, but no one really notices it?

I'd go into the source and look for the bug myself, but I honestly cannot reproduce this in any way that can even get me started on a path to enlightenment!

Thanks in advance...

It sounds like you need to use the database first.

Ok, so I'll answer my own question here :)

As it turns out, I needed to add a record to the xoops_config table in the database. The records in this table, apparently, correspond to the fields that show up in the preferences area of Xoops. The record should have the following values:

conf_modid = 0
conf_catid = 7
conf_name = ldap_base_dn
conf_title = _MD_AM_LDAP_BASE_DN
conf_value = ** whatever_your_base_dn_value_is **
conf_desc = _MD_AM_LDAP_BASE_DN_DESC
conf_formtype = textbox
conf_valuetype = text
conf_order = 4

Adding that record in immediately gave my site the ability to use the LDAP server for authentication.

Here's something that I haven't seen mentioned yet...

I have a server with XOOPS at 2.0.13.2. It uses the "Authentication Hack" to authenticate via the LDAP server.

I want to upgrade to 2.0.16. This now has authentication built in (yeah!). So I did a fresh install of 2.0.16 on my local computer just to be sure that I could configure the built-in authentication stuff correctly and see how it works. And, of course, it seems to be better than the hack ever was (more options, etc.). So far so good...

So I download 2.0.16 to the server and following the instructions to the letter. The only difference I made was to comment out the line in mainfile.php that was dedicated to loading in the old "Authentication Hack". As you can probably guess, however, I wasn't able to connect to the ldap server and authenticate on my server (upgraded Xoops) like I can on my local machine (fresh install).

Why not? Well, interestingly enough, the Admin/Preferences/Authentication screen on the server doesn't have all the parameters that the same screen does on the client! Check out these screen shots:

Local Version (fresh install):


Server Version (upgrade install):


As you can see, there is an extra parameter in the fresh install that didn't come over via the upgrade process. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance for your help!

We've recently seen a flurry of news surrounding newly released revisions of various editors for the XOOPS environment (Xoops Editor Package - V1.01 and Tinyeditor - V1.0 RC1). Personally, I've used the Koivi editor on my sites. What I would like, however, is a discussion amongst the XOOPS community here comparing these various editors.

Which one(s) do you like best? What do you like about them? What don't you like about them?

(( bump ))

I've been using News version 1.3 for awhile. There's a feature that I really like to see, so I decided to upgrade to version 1.44 (the latest, I think) and it's not there either.

So I'd humbly like to request the following:

Can more events be added beyond the Global and Story level events? Specifically, it would be great to add Category level events for the following:

1) Category - Notify me when any new story is submitted (awaiting approval) for the current category.

2) Category - Notify me when any new story is posted for the current category.

I could alter the module myself and add this feature, but I hate to get away from the 'standard' module code so that I can take advantage of bug fixes and other changes in the future.

Can anyone tell me if they think this addition would be benficial, and if so, what time frame they think this could be implemented?

Thanks in advance!

This is going to be a terribly basic question to some of you. Really, I'm just looking for a high level overview so that I can confirm that I'm on the right track.

I've been modifying an existing module for my own purposes. I've released a 'light' customization already to my web site. It's being used now and everything is great. I'm not ready, however, to begin the process of making some of the bigger functional additions to the module to really tailor it to our processes. These changes involve database changes (adding some columns to a couple of tables to store more information).

All the changes up till now have not required an update script. I simply load the new version of the module up to the web site, and perform an 'Update' from the Modules Administration screen. I've tried changing the database structure and generating a new .sql file documenting the new structure. Running a simple update, however, breaks the module.

Now I've noticed that some module require you to execute an "update script" once after doing the official XOOPS update from the administration screen. This update script is a php file and, presumably, makes some heavy duty (table change related?) alterations behind the scenes. I guess I need to write such a script myself and run it in order to propagate a table change effectively.

So what I am asking for is someone to give me a high level overview of why update scripts are written and the types of operations that they typically perform.

Thank you in advance for any help received!

Well, this is kind of ironic. I was just coming out to ask this very questions, and I find this longish thread devoted to the same thing! My interest has been peaked by easy eclipses-php. So I downloaded all 124 megabytes worth and installed it.

I'm kind of stuck here. I know I'm a total newby, but any help would be greatly appreciated. I am working on a custom module in xoops. I have xampp (apache, mysql, php, etc) installed locally (127.0.0.1) with a XOOPS install running my module. How can I set this up in easyeclipse so that I can step through this project and debug it line by line?

I've created a new project and pointed it to the actual module directory under htdocs. Easyeclipse then found all the files in this directory. I can click on any file and it'll bring it up in the editor. So far so good!

Then I switch to the "debug" perspective to try and debug my project. I quickly learned that I needed to configure a 'PHP DBG Script'. So I created a new one of those. I pointed the "File Tab"->"Project" field to the project that I just established. I then pointed the "File" field to my index.php in the module's root folder (beneath htdocs/xoops). I didn't touch the "Arguments" tab. I'm left confused by the "PHP Environment"->"Remote Debug" tab.

Can anyone please give me an idea of how they are setting up their module projects so that they can work on them?